Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >>
My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >>
Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Bar Talk • Friday, August 10, 2012 NSW bar looks for ways to stay bobbing in a turbulent sea ... Economic ideas to the fore in strategy plan ... Relevancy deprivation syndrome could be a factor ... Where are the bar's public voices?
NSW Bar Association Judges • Monday, August 6, 2012 Justinian's man in Athens, Alex Mitchell, reports on a scandal at the heart of Greece's judicial system ... Glamorous, accused judge does a runner ... Eventually hauled back to face the Athenian courts over perverting the course of justice and money laundering ... How else can you make a living in Greece?
Constantina Bourboulia Yarraside Yarns • Monday, August 6, 2012 Pros and cons of video cams attached to uniforms of Victorian police ... A check on heavy handed law enforcement ... A disencentive to concoct complaints against the coppers ... Sexting under review by Victorian parliament ... Sylvia Varnham O'Regan reports from Yarraside
Barry Lane • Monday, August 6, 2012 Collapsed Equititrust boss returning to the law ... Money lending - Gold Coast style ... Negligence and breach of duties by Indians, not the Chiefs ... Lawyers know best ... Barry Lane reports
AAT, Equititrust, Moneylending Leverhulme • Sunday, August 5, 2012 Leverhulme in Chancery Lane after the Twitter "joke" case ... Free speech in the Old Dart ... Wallopers swoop on Twitterer who was rude about Olympic diving hero ... Lord Denning on Desert Island Discs ... New President of the Supreme Court's rocky beginning in the law
Lord David Neuberger, Lord Denning, Twitter City Desk • Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Scratching around Russell Keddie's estate to find a few bob for creditors … $23 million in claims against the former multi-millionaire solicitor … Public examination of Mr & Mrs Keddie … Creditors' meeting … Max Donnelly's third report
Max Donnelly, Russell Keddie Goings On ... • Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Updated on Friday, August 3, 2012 by
Justinian
Chinatown ... ACT's silk applications (update) ... Olympic hero struts his stuff ... PR man Pelly splits with NSW AG ... Jobs for the NSW Law Society boys ... Human rights jamboree
ACT bar, Human rights, Rod McGeoch, Struck-off, professional conduct Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, July 29, 2012 The best Supreme Court that money can buy ... Republican appointees perform like "plutocratic hacks" ... Electoral spending and voting laws ... Latest torture news ... Drone killings prompt civil cases for wrongful deaths ... Bush lawyer urges repeal of "Hague Invasion Act" ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Hellfire Club • Sunday, July 29, 2012 Prosecutor fined and reprimanded for unsatisfactory conduct in the Mallard case … Notorious WA stitch-up by police … Administrative Tribunal finds prosecutor's conduct "inadvertent" … Failure to disclose evidence … No reasonable evidence to support DPP's submission about murder weapon
Andrew Mallard, Ken Bates, Miscarriage of justice, WA DPP Polly Peck • Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Julian Burnside QC gets the bums rush ... Response from attorney general to questions about US investigations and possible extradition of Julian Assange ... Government reply leaves open the equal possibilities that Canberra knows everything or it knows nothing ... It is certainly doing nothing … Polly Peck reports
Polly Peck • Tuesday, July 24, 2012 Polly Peck sifts the probables and possibles to fill the forthcoming High Court vacancies ... After a series of batterings from the court, Labor could do with some friends at Gar's Mahal ... Notoriously difficult to find true believers these days ... Roxxy on a mission
Carmel McLure, High Court, Nicola Roxon, Pamela tate Hellfire Club • Friday, July 20, 2012 Spanking lawyers for misconduct is a double-handed affair, with professional and statutory bodies passing the parcel between themselves … Fractious row breaks out in Queensland ... Tom Westbrook examines the omelet that is "professional regulation"
Barry Lane • Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Barry Lane chronicles a litany of accidents and deaths that could have been prevented had the police and civil aviation authorities been more on the mark ... Barry wants an online public register of convicted drunk drivers and for CASA to get tougher with offending pilots
Stephen Keim • Monday, July 16, 2012 Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne, from Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, dissect the UK Supreme Court's decision which prompted Julian Assange to seek asylum in Ecuador ... Independent safeguard not discovered in the phrase "judicial authority"
Goings On ... • Friday, July 13, 2012 Keddie's forgotten London property … Former client advises Royal Family to be careful of Keddie connection … Partners' property assets in deep freeze … Chief Judge Reg Blanch accused of running a "monkey room" in Hong Kong
Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Regular "reform" prevents there being any ... Pleadings and the generation of highly profitable crap ... How to make procedural rules better (i.e. worse) ... Tulkinghorn on the reform caper
Civil law reform, Law reform, Pleadings, Woolf reforms Procrustes • Friday, June 29, 2012 How far ahead can the government lock-in High Court appointments? ... Why is Soapy Brandis so unbearably smug? ... How do we solve the problem of refugee boats? ... Procrustes asks ... And answers
Dyson Heydon, George Brandis, Refugees Leverhulme • Wednesday, June 27, 2012 A busy time for Leverhulme ... At the Leveson inquiry ... Covent Garden for a superb night with Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna ... Then to Royal Ascot to watch Black Caviar come home by a nose
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, June 25, 2012 US Supremes summarily dismiss review of Citizens United ... Judicial appointments frozen ... Obama's drone frenzy makes him "hit-man-in-chief" ... Guantánamo trials seek to neuter Republican bellicosity ... The sham of habeas hearings ... Our Man in Washington reports
Citizens United, Drones, Guantanamo, Habeas, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Yarraside Yarns • Friday, June 22, 2012 Criminalisation of bullying … Brodie's Law falls flat … Difficulties in opening the new frontiers of bully law … Subspecies of harassment … Former judge says it's lagging behind the "sun-smart" campaign as an awareness issue … Sylvia Varnham O'Regan's Yarraside Yarns
Brodie's Law, Bullying, Crimes Act