Potty Mouth Solicitor Dispatched ... NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults ... Insufficiently professional ... Arrived from Greece with only his underpants ... No contrition ... Anthony Kanaan files ... 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 >>
Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... From Stephen Murray at the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Read more >>
The end looms for Naughty Nathan Buckley ... Lawyer to the sovereign law brigade ... Anti vaxxer ... NCAT calls for his striking from the jam roll ... 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 >>
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Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... 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 >>
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, October 9, 2020 Streaming now ... Based on the former FBI director's book ... An insight into America's trauma ... A president hell-bent on suborning the bureau to his will ... A mafioso in the White House ... Hillary's emails and the 2016 election ... The Russia investigation ... Everyone is compromised ... Miss Lumière dips her toe into the swamp
Hellfire Club • Thursday, October 8, 2020 Law Society of NSW lashed by Court of Appeal ... Failure to ensure just, quick and cheap litigation ... Another jurisdictional calamity ... Earlier decision not brought to the attention of NCAT ... Requirement for model litigant ... Application for suppression order rejected ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, October 6, 2020 The Reichstag is burning ... Delegitimising an election ... Covid-ridden presidential candidate ... Trump's debts pose security problems ... Stacking the Supreme Court ... An unhinged assault on the Affordable Care Act ... Judicial showdown looms ... Latest report from Roger Fitch in Washington
Court in the Act • Friday, October 2, 2020 Requiem for a company ... Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full
Procrustes • Thursday, October 1, 2020 Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, et al, eat their words as they scramble to replace RBG ... Voters cast aside ... Ungluing the institutions of government ... Border wars in Oz and the meaning of s.92 ... Law making by ministerial fiat ... Old buffers come to the party ... Procrustes opines
Bar Talk • Monday, September 28, 2020 At last ... The steel box at the bottom of the sea has been burst open and the names of the 2020 NSW silk applicants have floated to the surface, where they bob around waiting for the sharks ... Here they are ... Old favourites aplenty ... Bar's difficulty with transparency ... Silk purse ... Sow's ear
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Questioning a dodgy invoice ... Corruption unravelled at the heart of Norwegian politics, law and the media ... Miss Lumière watches and reviews the eight part SBS series Heksejakt (Witch Hunt) ... Inspired by events in the real world ... Whistleblowing at its most courageous
Procrustes • Monday, September 21, 2020 Women's freedom ... The battles to change the law ... The vote ... The right to be elected ... Different histories in Australia and Britain ... Statues and celebration ... Procrustes reviews two books on pioneer women ... Plus, property rights and the productive value of koalas ... Leaf eaters as part of the commons