Plunderable matter ... When lawyers "follow the fees" where does that lead the legal system? ... The business of privately funded criminal defence lawyers ... Why lawyers swapped horses ... Tulkinghorn traces the history ... From Justinian's archive, September 10, 2008 ... Déjà Vu ... Read on ...
The unbelievable Malcolm Turnbull ... On average the Abbott government has held children in immigration detention much longer than was the case under Labor ... Release only speeded-up after senators blackmailed to pass amendments to the Migration Act ... Read more ...
Modern Britain ... Leverhulme's London Calling ... Wolf Hall should get real ... Ruination of the Beeb ... Live crosses ... Lynton Crosby pulling Cameron's strings ... Role of the Church of England ... Parents have a right to be immoral ... Read more ...
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The clash ... Fighting tooth and nail in the law school trenches ... Ruinous timetables ... JD student Barely Legal asks, "why am I here? ... Read more ...
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Wendler in London ... Cruising Gordon's Wine Bar, Penfolds Wine Lounge and a Russian oligarch's lavish venture, Hedonism Wines ... Unfortunately, the Stinking Bishop was missing ... Read more ...
Plunderable matter ... When lawyers "follow the fees" where does that lead the legal system? ... The business of privately funded criminal defence lawyers ... Why lawyers swapped horses ... Tulkinghorn traces the history ... From Justinian's archive, September 10, 2008 ... Read more ...
City Desk • Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Tony Barakat caught in last minute trust manoeuvre ... Attempt to diddle creditors thwarted as funds frozen ... Stacks win $300,000 costs order from Keddies for hopeless professional negligence action ... Court of Appeal dumbfounded by Scott Roulstone's evidence
Stephen Keim • Monday, August 20, 2012 AFP's once-over-lightly investigation of the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia ... Findings in Canada that Sri Lankan navy was involved in crimes against humanity ... We turn a blind eye because there's an expectation the Sri Lankan navy assists in preventing asylum seekers from reaching Australia
City Desk • Thursday, August 16, 2012 Scoop … Keddies Kapers ... Preliminary report by Tony Barakat's bankruptcy trustee ... Millions squirreled in trusts and super out of reach of creditors ... Properties in wife's name ... Hurried transfers to be unravelled … Scott Roulstone's statement of affairs … Unfit and improper
Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, August 15, 2012 In another world it might be fraud to charge for something you know is not owing ... For lawyers overcharging morphs into acceptable professional conduct ... For non-lawyers "overcharging" results in jail time ... Tulkinghorn explains
Dorothy Says • Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Client meetings versus internal law firm meetings ... Partners revolt against middle management ... Dorothy identifies tell tale signs of a pointless meeting ... Core Competency Going Forward ... Watch out for the compulsory dinner
Bar Talk • Monday, August 13, 2012 NSW bar attracts a big, fat list of silk contenders … Many women apply … Lots of names from last year … Smallbone principle takes effect … Full list of applicants
Bar Talk • Friday, August 10, 2012 NSW bar looks for ways to stay bobbing in a turbulent sea ... Economic ideas to the fore in strategy plan ... Relevancy deprivation syndrome could be a factor ... Where are the bar's public voices?
Judges • Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Justinian's man in Athens, Alex Mitchell, reports on a scandal at the heart of Greece's judicial system ... Glamorous, accused judge does a runner ... Eventually hauled back to face the Athenian courts over perverting the course of justice and money laundering ... How else can you make a living in Greece?
Wendler on Wine • Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Waste management millionaire puts his money into NZ's Craggy Range wine business ... Justinian's wine reviewer, barrister G.D. Wendler, finds himself on the 88th floor of Melbourne's Eureka Tower tasting the Gimblett Gravels' finest and comparing notes with James (The King) Halliday