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 >>
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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 >>
City Desk • Sunday, August 1, 2021 Window into a weird world ... Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers ... Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information ... Harassment ... Media lawyers at 10 paces ... Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks ... Crowdfunding for High Court challenge ... Whether funds held in trust ... Alan Zheng reporting
Barely Legal • Saturday, July 31, 2021 Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line
Hellfire Club • Friday, July 30, 2021 Suppression order sought but not granted ... Legal Services Commissioner's jurisdictional drama ... Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal ... Application to suppress details rejected ... Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed ... Feelings of despair ... Less work ... Snubbed ... Huge expense ... Law Reform Commission ... Alan Zheng reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 29, 2021 In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, July 23, 2021 Porsche driving head of equity being fitted for CJ robes ... Willy or won't he? - Alstergren favoured for Chuckles' job ... The Christian's costly litigation spree ... Biased judges survey ... Wot's going on at the NSW solicitors' society? ... Coincidental political allies appointed to IR gig ... Sharks salute sharks ... Theodora with Goings On
Court in the Act • Friday, July 23, 2021 Back to pokey for Eddie Obeid ... A fresh experience awaits Moses ... Decades of villainy ... Leading NSW crime figures slotted ... Vindication for ICAC's findings and rule of law ... Despair for The Tamil ... Obeid Snr cast as a "political prisoner" ... Time to crank-up the Free Eddie campaign
Judges • Wednesday, July 21, 2021 UPDATE ... Blunders by inexperienced Family Court judge ... Need for dispatch to reeducation camp ... Friends in high places ... Precedent ignored ... Edward Longshanks no help ... Lengthy judgments with irrelevant citations ... "Odd" ... George Pell referenced ... "Perplexing" ... Ginger Snatch reports
On The Couch • Friday, July 16, 2021 A new book on H.V Evatt, the lawyer, judge and politician, from author and journalist Gideon Haigh ... Exploration of Evatt's dissent in the great nervous shock case Chester v Council of the Waverley Municipality ... What on earth were the other High Court judges thinking? ... Great turning points in law, politics and history ... With some fine attitudes we find Gideon Haigh on Justinian's Couch