Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle

Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004

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Pat's wobbly evidence in defamation case

Remembering the great Pat O'Shane's defamation case against culture warrior Janet (The Planet) Albrechtsen ... Pat comes home at the trial and most of the damages on appeal ... When Fairfax defended Albrechtsen ... From Justinian's Archive, April 15, 2004

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The Saints Go Marching In

Cash cow has to claw its way back to the LCA's inner sanctum ... Stephen Estcourt cleans up in Mercury settlement ... Amex rides two horses in expiring guarantee cases ... Simmo bins the paperwork ... Attorneys General should not come from the solicitors' branch ... Goings On from February 9, 2009

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A life in Commonwealth cars is not a good look

Scene beside the lake ... Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon ... A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good ... Taxi driver's failure to lament ... From Justinian's Archive, February 2, 2009 

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Regrets

The then Media Watch host and one of the country's most magnificent silks birched in the High Court for not sticking to the rules ... Scratchy Stu ... From Justinian's Archive, May 1997

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It's a Dizzy world

Judges' associate Ginger Snatch hangs out in the Blue Mountains with a whole pile of Dizzo judges ... NSW Court of Appeal lashes poor wretches lower down the stare decisis food chain for poor quality reasoning ... In Queensland a costs assessor fails to "inspire confidence" … From Justinian's Archive, April 17, 2007 

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Twenty-one years ago

Winning tickets at the pro bono awards ... Prizes for Vic's AG ... Court vacancies - filled and unfilled ... Hugh Keller's recipes for wellness ... DPP Cowdery wants life ... Geographic ordeal for Bossley Park ... Meagher's art - the definition of clutter ... Theodora reports ... From Justinian's Archive, June 11, 2003

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Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle

Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004

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The plague of amnesia

Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 

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Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports

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Thought police

Press freedom ... Front cover drama at Law Council organ ... Pauline Hanson and the KKK ... Big shots in San Francisco hauled into crisis session ... Secret recording ... Pig Iron Bob to the rescue ... From Theodora ... Justinian's Archive, September 1997 

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Lord Archer - ducking and weaving

Defrocked barrister faced "iciness" at the ADT ... Double helpings of bias ... Tribunal can't help making adverse decisions about the former brief ... Fair minded citizens on the Emu Plains omnibus ... From Justinian's Archive, November 11, 2004 

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Getting them off

Ethics and misleading the court ... Representing the guilty ... Moral standards ... Whatever it takes ... From columnist Evan Whitton ... Justinian's Archive, September 22, 2004 

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A brief history of sedition

The origins and evolution of sedition, from 1450 to today ... Howard and Ruddock dusting down the H. Talbot Gibbs' plan ... Reprising columnist Evan Whitton, who also unveils his new book, a mercifully brief and fun tome called Serial Liars ... From Justinian's Archive, November 28, 2005 

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Hatred, ridicule and contempt

Defamatorium ... The libel scene back then ... Marsden to the rescue ... All fires are suspicious, until they're not ... Jury breakthrough on the defamatory meaning of "homosexual" ... From Justinian's Archive, November 11, 2003 

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Unhappy day for Allens

The messy carve-up of James Hardie Industries ... "Fully funded" asbestos liabilities ... Cancelling the partly paid shares ... Breach of duty to judge ... David Jackson's findings ... From Justinian's Archive, September 21, 2004 

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Dyson's day in drag

It's 1959, or maybe 1960 ... Commem Day at the University of Sydney ... History ... A Cold War celebration ... Dyson Heydon dressed as a Russian babushka ... Why exactly, we're not sure ... Students up to something ... From Justinian's Photo Archive 

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Abolish silks

Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002 

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Enormous homophobia on the bench, claims Marsden

Troubling allegations from former President of the NSW Law Society ... Letter to the Judicial Commission ... No magic button for gays ... Explaining gay issues to Ernie Schmatt, in detail ... From Justinian's Archive, March 1, 2001  

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"Involuntary inertia" spreading like foot in mouth

Bankrupt barristers and their tax ... Wayback Machine ... Barristers unpaid tax burden ... NSW Bar Association dithering and shifting the blame ... From Justinian's Archive March 6, 2001 

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