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 >>
The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... 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 >>
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Barrister Gina Edwards sues Rebekah Giles for professional negligence ... Cavoodle case ... SMH has 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
Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... 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 >>
Court in the Act • Monday, September 27, 2021 NT policeman charged with murder of Indigenous man ... High Court to hear special leave and appeal together ... Core functions of police force ... Protection for civil or criminal acts committed by police ... How far does police protection run? ... "Unjustified" trial delay ... Anna Kretowicz reports
I Once Met ... • Sunday, September 26, 2021 David Bennett QC had an encounter at the House of Lords ... Former PM Margaret Thatcher on the supremacy of parliament ... Frosty view on Australian constitutional checks and balances
I Once Met ... • Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Prime Minister Keating arrives at a Labor Party fundraiser in Darwin where he meets a star-struck Buffalo Bruce ... 1994, a time of harsh CLP criminal justice laws ... Native Title Act and the reconciliation movement also at work ... Synchronistic forces at play
Procrustes • Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Report by Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction extracted by FOI ... Truth about the prospect of victory withheld ... Misleading accounts retailed to the public ... Consequences for refugee applicants ... Onwards to Tasmania and the good boat Four Winds ... Appeal misadventure in the Neil-Fraser case ... Second appeal falters ... Awaiting judgment ... Procrustes files from the ramparts
I Once Met ... • Thursday, September 16, 2021 The editor meets Lionel Murphy for the first time ... But not the only time ... Unfolding the Whitlam government's agenda in the senate leader's office ... New wallpaper ... An unexpected interruption ... Interview with cub reporter