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 >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... 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 >>
The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >>
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 >>
Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Goings On ... • Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Counsel assisting Dyse ... Allsop in the gossip pages ... The Australian passes-off barrister's learned article on the RDA ... Tim Ellis and all Tasmania wait for verdict in driving case ... The "smart arse" tactic ... Queen Anne is dead, long-live coloured robes ... Flying Malaysian Airlines
Polly Peck • Monday, March 31, 2014 Soapy on the free speech balustrades ... 100 flowers to bloom ... No Coalition unity ticket on amendments to Racial Discrimination Act ... AG's unique understanding of "public discussion" ... Anti-Muslin groups rally in support ... Is this a bad dream?
Around The Firms • Wednesday, March 26, 2014 No flies on Royal Commissioner Peter McClellan ... Searing examination of Catholic Church lawyers ... The Ellis case - defence at any cost ... Litigation and ethics ... Telling transcript ... The Cardinal regrets
Court in the Act • Monday, March 24, 2014 Recently resigned Solicitor General Walter Sofronoff says Queensland Attorney General Jarrod Bleijie is unfit for office ... He cannot be trusted to maintain confidences so he cannot fulfil his duty as attorney general ... Bombshell letter
Court in the Act • Sunday, March 16, 2014 Barrister gives "unbelievable, incredible" evidence about attending to a client being interviewed by the police ... Is the NSW bar n grill looking into this? ... Where's the OLSC?
Bar Talk • Friday, March 14, 2014 Special QCs committee to see if the moniker is irresistible for NSW barristers ... Can parliament be moved? ... Special symposium for reptiles to discover how justice is made
Judges • Wednesday, March 12, 2014 Payback time in Queensland ... Attorney General's scheme to get criminal appeal judges of the right flavour ... Splitting the Court of Appeal ... Sidelining Margaret McMurdo ... Nothing very subtle here
Leverhulme • Tuesday, March 11, 2014 Grand Wizards of the law assemble in Scotland for a "drinking party" ... Panel discussion by UK Supreme Court luminaries ... Human rights and human beings ... Lord Hope on display ... Leverhulme in attendance
Polly Peck • Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Queensland CJ Paul de Jersey seemed to issue well-timed job application speeches that captured the essence of the Newman government's lawn order agenda ... Now he's to be the next governor of Bananaland ... Bruce Barbour fails to win a new stint as NSW's public watchdog ... Barry O'Farrell says 14 years is long enough ... Political sleuth Alex Mitchell reports
City Desk • Tuesday, March 4, 2014 The blessed world of Sydney Law students ... Bronze statues outside the law school capture the zeitgeist ... A message for today ... The interior and the exterior
Sydney Law School Goings On ... • Friday, February 28, 2014 Homeless shelter from the law ... Roughshagger speeds-up ... Hanger history ... Was Boy George a solicitor?
Judges • Thursday, February 27, 2014 Names, form and potential ... Who's in contention for the chief's job ... Age and weight a factor ... Farewell Daphnis - it was great fun
Court in the Act • Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Joe Antoun and corruption in the construction industry ... Recalling stand-over man's experience with NSW District Court judge ... Dead crim remembered
District Court NSW, High Court, Joe Antoun, Terry Christie Hellfire Club • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Long struggle for Christine Nash ... Desperation in stumping-up money for a property scheme led to an unfortunate end to life at the bar ... Balmain property developers have reason to cry
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, February 24, 2014 More delicious NSA revelations ... Getting off the no-fly list ... Guantánamo update ... Remaking the law of war ... Botched executions ... Wall Street's lack of conviction ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Executions, Guantanamo, Law of war, NSA, Wall St Bar Talk • Friday, February 21, 2014 Rush for the patent letter at Vic's Bar n Grill ... Surge of SCs with hands-up for queen's bauble ... Monarchist sympathies awakened
Queens Counsel, Victorian Bar Goings On ... • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 NSW QCs - attorney general Smith speaks ... Big law shop getting into the law news and reporting business ... Soapy making mischief at the Human Rights Commission
City Desk • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Letters to the papers from David Flint, Senator Soapy Brandis and Bob (Plain Nut) Carr ... What are they on about? ... Strange missives
Court in the Act • Monday, February 17, 2014 A family of lobbyists and spinners with feet in all camps ... Government's food rating website and the clash of interests ... Remembrance of advice past ... Peanut butter lobbyists instructed judges and beaks on how to handle the meeja
Roger Fitch Esq • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Gouging the punter ... Banks hit with huge fines and compensation ... Wave of weasel words ... Roger Fitch examines the latest scandals: crook insurance schemes, interest rate hedging scams and LIBOR rigging