Latest from Brucie ... Bruce Lehrmann v Commonwealth Special Minister of State & Maj Gen Paul Brereton (NACC) ... See SMH >> ... Application for relief under s.39B of the Judiciary Act ... Read more >>
Perils of the Defamatorium ... Lovely Linda Reynolds’ “victory” leaves her underwater … Politics, sex, law, and money … Injuries galore … The art of Tottling … Where’s the serious harm? … Trust me … Jurisdictional backwater ... Read more >>
Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >>
Six new judges for Div 2 of the FCFC ... More >>
Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >>
The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >>
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Polly Peck • Friday, July 18, 2014 UPDATE ... David Hicks, demonised by the Howard government, pleaded guilty to a charge unknown to the law of war ... US appeals court says there is no such war crime as "material support for terrorism" ... Where does that leave the over-blown attacks on Hicks by Howard, his ministers and hacks from the Murdoch press?
David Hicks Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Howard's terrorist pin-up boy David Hicks convicted of a war crime that doesn't exist ... DC Circuit Court of Appeals finds "material support for terrorism" is not a war crime ... Hicks' conviction likely to be quashed ... Bullied into a plea deal by the Bush and Howard governments in 2007 ... Soapy Brandis looking more than usually idiotic ... Miscarriage of justice
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Breaking the filibuster stranglehold on judicial appointments ... David Hicks appeal assisted by incompetence of military prosecutors ... 136 people identified as victims of CIA torture programs - claims popping-up everywhere ... Right to vote under attack ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, files
CIA torture, David Hicks, Human rights Polly Peck • Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Soapy Brandis still nagging about David Hicks ... The shadow AG's big policy gesture: confiscate the proceeds of Hicks' book ... It is far from clear that this is possible
David Hicks, George Brandis, Proceeds of Crime