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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Justinian's archive
Hellfire Club • Thursday, December 18, 2014 Conviction for sexual assault means barrister is not fit and proper ... Insistence on innocence only made things worse ... Behaviour unconnected with work as a barrister ... Dignity of the bar ... Kate Lilly on the case
Hellfire Club • Friday, October 26, 2012 VCAT mucks-up determination of penalty for bankrupt Melbourne barrister who got into bother with his tax ... The extent to which the purchase of "small luxuries" is relevant ... How deep does one's head have to be in the sand ... Twilight years at the bar ... The role of "sympathy" in dishing out a penalty ... Other vexing questions
Barristers tax, Fit & Proper, VCAT Around The Firms • Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Leading personal injury solicitor appointed to board of NSW LawCover ... Untested allegations of professional misconduct hang in the air ... APRA's fit and proper guidelines for directors of insurance companies ... Finding of "serious neglect" ... Implications for policyholders
Brydens, Fit & Proper, LawCover, Robert Bryden