Soapy Brandis and Daphnis de Jersey flee after Queensland Law Society speech by Fr Frank Brennan on civil liberties and the law ... Glacial response from the top table ... Read more
Mark Livesey, Australia's national bar leader on Justinian's Couch ... The pressing issues confronting barristers ... The role of the ABA ... Personal tastes, likes and dislikes laid bare ... Read on >>
Queensland CJ Paul de Jersey's well-timed job application speeches found favour with the Newman government's lawn order agenda ... Appointment as Governor is no surprise, writes Alex Mitchell ... Read more
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Is the College of Law worth it? ... Surviving in an era of bonded labour ... Barely Legal ruminates ... Read more
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Mark Livesey QC, Australia's national bar leader on Justinian's Couch ... The pressing issues confronting barristers ... The role of the ABA ... Personal tastes, likes and dislikes laid bare... Read more
The importance of modesty ... Queensland bar's Lord Eldon reviews the barristers' pecking order ... Anyway, who's this Gageler fellow? Read more
Procrustes • Tuesday, October 25, 2011 This country used to have leaders ... Now it's got cyphers, driven by the distortions from focus groups and pollsters ... That's why our handling of asylum seekers had been such a disgrace ... Procrustes climbs onto his high horse, which is tethered conveniently nearby
Polly Peck • Monday, October 24, 2011 Advice from OIL sets off fiery questions from oily senator about the Malaysian Solution ... Meeting a dead-bat at the estimates committee ... What's happened to the federal courts Bill? ... Meanwhile, there's a quiet review into integrating the "backend" of federal courts and tribunals ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra
Junior Junior • Monday, October 24, 2011 Junior Junior's first days at the bar ... She smartly identified three types of barrister ... Does the bar attract weirdos or does the bar make them weird? ... The baby barrister blog
Bar Talk • Thursday, October 20, 2011 Rumblings in Phillip Street ... Silk refusenicks run for council elections ... More detailed information to be supplied to failed applicants for silk ... Process could drag on into next month ... "Vote for change"
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Analysing the US Supremes most recent term - plenty of goodies for big business, nothing for plaintiff lawyers ... Alien Tort Statute up for a workout ... Torture cases batted around the circuit courts ... Rendition victims lose final appeal ... Our Man in Washington reports
Court in the Act • Tuesday, October 18, 2011 No public interest in what's interesting to the public ... Open justice takes a backseat as prevention of embarrassment trumps competing interests ... Rinehart ruling keeps family row under wraps for now ... Publication of slabs of interlocutory judgment in Styles v Clayton Utz off limits ... Clutz applied for a super-injunction to keep names under wraps
Around the Firms • Sunday, October 16, 2011 Styles v Clayton Utz ... Two judgments dealing with pleadings in the sex discrimination case against the large law shop ... Taunting photos ... Unfunny parodies ... Sexual tension ... Metro manwhoreishness
Bar Talk • Thursday, October 13, 2011 UPDATE ... David Smallbone makes progress in silk selection sensation ... Trying to get to grips with the accuracy and fairness of a secretive process ... Arab Spring comes to Phillip Street
Barry Lane • Wednesday, October 12, 2011 We have to thank parliament for the rich opportunities to litigate and appeal ... The fostering of disputation is a political mission ... The fertile pastures of taxation, sentencing and injury compo ... GST issues surrounding an Italian mini ciabatta ... Digressions from Barry Lane