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 >>
Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Barrister leads solicitor astray ... Snappy correspondence sent to court registry officer seeking urgent hearing ... Attempt at forum shopping ... Allegations of impropriety against a judge ... Discourteous and provocative missives ... The gallows avoided by humble apologies and re-education ... Ginger Snatch reports
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Trump's defeat sees the Republican gerrymander in full swing ... Moving the electoral goalposts ... Filibuster won't be busted ... Lies of the past paved the way for the Big Lie of today ... Military trials and the flouting of law ... The taint of torture ... The failure of Guantánamo ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Barely Legal • Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Freshly minted from university ... Associateship beckons ... Interim job bailing water out of the leaky parole boat ... Delays and judicial reviews ... Barely Legal finds out about stuff never taught at university
Artemus Jones • Sunday, May 23, 2021 Dyer v Chrysanthou ... Porter stands by his brief as case gets bogged in interlocutory disputes ... Trouble for client when the lawyers become the main story ... Expense and delay do not assist Porter ... "Infection" of the legal team ... September trial date looking wobbly ... Defamation trial could clash with the electoral cycle ... Observations from Artemus Jones
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Christian's defamation campaign has been sidetracked ... Now he's a respondent fighting to keep one of his barristers on the ticket ... Risk of misuse of confidential information ... Discovery ordered ... Who told others of concerns about potential conflict? ... Layer upon layer of contention before we get to D-Day
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, May 19, 2021 NCAT hands out paltry penalty for "vile" tirade ... Distressing assault in Taree ... Vilification delivered from private property but held to be a "public act" ... Adverse psychological effect on Aboriginal elder ... No order for an apology because it would not be "sincere" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Wednesday, May 19, 2021 What's going on with law and justice in Hong Kong ... Large number of accused in democracy clamp-down ... Special judges who accept subservient role ... Preliminary election regarded as subversion ... Legislative Council expected to be "patriotic" ... Newspaper proprietor in prison ... Text books being re-written ... Exodus accelerates ... From Our Man Clinging On In Hong Kong