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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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 >>
I Once Met ... • Friday, August 27, 2021 Introducing I Once Met ... Readers' recollections about their encounters with the great, the good and the not-so-good ... First in a series ... Leverhulme has a brusque introduction to Bob Hawke in 1989
Procrustes • Friday, August 27, 2021 Kipling on the British retreat from Afghanistan ... Jezails and tulwars win the day ... Lessons of history ... Premature Old Buffers in Oz - Canavan and Sheldon cross swords with the Wiggles ... Doc Evatt before his time ... The Chester case ... Seeing off Frederick Jordan ... Menzies - an artistic philistine ... Procrustes files
Books • Friday, August 20, 2021 Book worm review by Anna Kretowicz... Who Gets to be Smart ... A broken education system propping-up the old world order ... The "truth" behind Rhodes and his scholars ... Production mill for elites ... Confusion and insecurities abound
Hellfire Club • Monday, August 16, 2021 The Prothonotary v Campbell ... The upstanding Tamworth lawyer who fell from grace ... Law Society's lame efforts at purging the profession ... Plundering a deranged client's wealthy estate ... False swearing and perjury ... Attempt to cover-up moral and ethical lapse ... Greed got the better of an "unimpeachable" character
Court in the Act • Friday, August 13, 2021 Gold Coast money dreams ... Trading-Gambling scheme comes unglued ... Investors cleaned out ... Identity of conman hidden ... False and misleading conduct ... Solicitor aware of misrepresentations ... Various squirrelling activities ... Appeal fails ... Anna Kretowicz on the case
An appetite for malice
A primer on the rise and rise of actions for malicious prosecution - particularly in NSW ... Claimants taking on the state and AVO applicants ... Cases and causes ... What is this tort actually doing? ... Disgruntlement going nowhere ... Anna Kretowicz on the case
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