Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
For the latest local news go to ... www.postcode2011.com.au
Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... More >>
London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >>
Friday, July 5, 2024 SCOTUS ... Shocker decisions from the latest term ... The Trump Docket ... Presidential immunity ... Gratuities and bribes ... Obstruction ... Admin law trashed ... Criminalising the homeless ... Espionage Act - two sides of the coin for Assange and Trump ... At last, someone convicted at Guantánamo of a real war crime ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
City Desk • Tuesday, July 2, 2024 The case for compulsory voting ... Pity the Brits, French and Americans where politicians have to "get out the vote" ... Nathan Twibill on the advantages of the "median voter" strategy ... Vote early, vote often
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 2, 2024 Solicitor changes lanes ... Warned client of possible conflict ... VicSupremes says "go ahead" ... Legal Services Commissioner on standby ... Plus ... Plundering clients' estates for personal expenses ... More than $2 million AWOL from Wollongong law shop ... Derolling after time served ... Anthony Kanaan reports
Around the Firms • Tuesday, June 25, 2024 Family provisions ... NSW CA ... Client underwater ... Awarded an extra $220,000 from mother's estate with costs of over $403,000 ... Law firm's unsuccessful challenge to costs assessment, panel review and District Court decision ... Everyone goes home in tears ... Anthony Kanaan reports
Procrustes • Monday, June 17, 2024 Procrustes closely analyses recent Justinian reports ... The Ippster and Stella Liebeck ... Tort law reform that went beyond the Pale ... In Tassie, no one is allowed to speak for the forests ... Standing up against State rule of the trees ... Where's Syd Shea when you need him?
