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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Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Supreme Court lets God into the Affordable Care Act ... And strikes down certain compulsory union dues ... At last - a Guantánamo detainee charged with a genuine war crime ... Obama's Taliban prisoner swap ... Whatever you do, don't shoot at an American in a war ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, July 9, 2013 Corporate mercenaries settle with Iraqi victims ... While Abu Ghraib contractor ducks liability for torture ... Corporates and conservatives generally pleased after Supreme Court's latest term ... British newspaper scoops US media on major security story ... Spying on attorneys at Gitmo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports
Clarence Thomas, FISA, Military Commissions, NSA, Torture, US Supreme Court, War crimes Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, April 14, 2013 Old guard rallies to the cause of female CIA agent glorified fictionally in Zero Dark 30 ... Latest from US Supremes, including forthcoming important gene patent case ... Secret no-fly lists tested in court ... DoJ's sweetheart deals with badly behaved banks and bankers ... George W. Bush's Liberty and Freedom Institute opens for business ... Our Man in Washington
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, February 11, 2013 The United States doesn't require a war for there to be "war crimes ... Stopping the "water cure" from flowing into the trial process ... European Court of Human Rights upsets the CIA's apple cart ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Guantanamo, Law of war, Military Commissions, Torture Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, May 17, 2010 Terror trial dramas … The Omar Khadr case where the crimes are unknown to the law of war … Manipulating the Military Commission system … New rule that a law of war conviction doesn’t require a law of war violation … Pentagon bans four leading reporters from Guantánamo
Guantanamo, Law of war, Military Commissions