Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >>
Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ... Read more >>
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Barry Lane • Tuesday, August 9, 2011 What must jurors think when they discover the truth after the event? ... Writing on the wall for juries when accused prefer judges alone ... Systematic subversion of the system ... Barry Lane call attention to the truth issue
Court in the Act • Monday, August 8, 2011 Justice David Yates overturns federal government scheme to block access to justice ... He finds there is plenty of discretion for Federal Court registrars to waive filing fees for impecunious immigration detainees seeking judicial review ... Proceedings can be commenced without the fee ... Rachelle De Jager reports
Federal Court, Immigration detention Goings On ... • Friday, August 5, 2011 DPP locks his door ... Attorney General talks religion and the law ... New branding for barrister's top notch marmalade ... Revolving door for old newspaper lawyer ... The Bureau de Shoot ... Just how squeaky clean is News Ltd? ... Tony Meagher not strong on Basten JA's favourite subject
Court in the Act • Wednesday, August 3, 2011 ACT damages verdict at least two-and-a-half years overdue ... No response from Canberra bar or Supremes to counsel's multiple notices under delayed judgment protocol ... Writ of mandamus heading to the High Court
ACT Supreme Court, Delays Court in the Act • Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Voyager victims ... Overcharging lawyer's fee agreement upheld ... Legal struggle with receiver and Legal Practice Board chews up $1.5 million in fees ... Receivership extended ... Appeals pending
Bar Talk • Sunday, July 31, 2011 New set of Darwin chambers represents "cessation of hostilities" ... Departures from William Forster Chambers ... Buffalo Bruce, our field agent in the Top End, reports that there's been a seismic shift at the Darwin bar
Stephen Keim • Friday, July 29, 2011 Taking the Fifth ... The slip-sliding principles that the US Supremes have applied to the politics of law enforcement ... Justice Anthony Kennedy breaks the deadlock on Miranda warnings, custody and interrogation of a 13-year old ... Stephen Keim reports
Fifth Amendment, Miranda Court in the Act • Monday, July 25, 2011
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Lawyers are returning to bite the Murdochs on their posteriors ... James Murdoch's pants are on fire ... Commons committee wants an explanation (a better one this time) ... Lawyers are off the leash
James Murdoch, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch Friday, July 22, 2011 ACT bar wants gossiping and rumour mongering about appointments to be stamped-out ... Undesirable for members to speculate about things ... It's bad for business
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 19, 2011 News Ltd explains its policies on entrapment, surveillance and private investigators ... Instructive stuff ... The media world lurches off its axis as Rupert & Co are unable to manage the flood of arrests, resignations and on-going investigations .. Late night viewing as a Commons committee presses for answers
Ethics, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch Tulkinghorn • Friday, July 15, 2011 Lawyers swarm all over and colonise areas of non-law ... Once an area has been lawyerised there is no turning back ... The hijacking of politics by the courts ... Women judges more compassionate than men in asylum cases? ... Tulkinghorn examines the creation of immigration "law"
Judges • Thursday, July 14, 2011 Every unhappy court is unhappy in its own way ... ACT government and Supreme Court in long-running stand off ... Delays and despair ... No rush by CJ to welcome new appointment
ACT Supreme Court Goings On ... • Thursday, July 14, 2011 Refreshments get out of hand at Roddy Meagher's wake ... Assaults in the bar common room ... Jackson Pollock artworks on display as guests fall about ... Grief fuelled by liquor
Assault, NSW Bar Association, Roddy Meagher Goings On ... • Monday, July 11, 2011 Registrar and sheriff stomp on barrister's plan to arm moppets with missiles ... Children's Court Book Project hits a snag ... Literature flung from Parramatta Children's Court
Children's Court, Michelle Fraser Judges • Friday, July 8, 2011 St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney chocker with mourners at Roddy Meagher's funeral mass ... Dyce raced through the eulogy, but everything else took a very long time ... I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ... Oh Lord don't let me be misunderstood ... Notes from the Pelladium
Dyson Heydon, Roddy Meagher Judges • Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Keynote address in Adelaide by the editor of Justinian to the 21st biennial conference of District and County Court judges ... Journalists and judges have so much in common, so why is there such distrust?
Leverhulme • Monday, July 4, 2011 "It was bluebell time in Kent." ... Only a few judges likely to score over 50 in the Flesch test ... Jackson LJ pens a masterly judgment in Epsom Derby case ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Reinventing the Constitution ... New war crime propped up by discredited 1818 case ... Pentagon stacks military commission review court ... Rogue circuit court circumvents habeas for Guantanameros ... CIA homicides investigated by grand jury ... Our Man in Washington reports
Guantanamo, Habeas, War crimes, material support Judges • Friday, June 24, 2011 Chris Judd, Nick Maxwell and Matthew Boyd get out their laptops and send Justice Finkelstein tributes on the eve of his retirement from the Federal Court ... Melbourne's AFL culture recognises no boundaries
Ray Finkelstein Barry Lane • Thursday, June 23, 2011 Spellbinding newspaper interview with the former lion of Melbourne, business, politics and football, John Elliott ... Barry Lane does his best to fill in some gaps in the story ... The prosecution over the Elders' bonds issue ... Water Wheel's insolvent trading ... The unhappy creditors ... A peep in the rear-view mirror
Elders, John Elliott, Water Wheel