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
Court in the Act • Monday, February 17, 2014 A family of lobbyists and spinners with feet in all camps ... Government's food rating website and the clash of interests ... Remembrance of advice past ... Peanut butter lobbyists instructed judges and beaks on how to handle the meeja
Roger Fitch Esq • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Gouging the punter ... Banks hit with huge fines and compensation ... Wave of weasel words ... Roger Fitch examines the latest scandals: crook insurance schemes, interest rate hedging scams and LIBOR rigging
City Desk • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Dyson Heydon, a clever troglodyte, handed the spotlight by the Addams family ... Extraordinary powers to explore anything and anyone ... Recalling some of Dyse's finest historical and literary flourishes
Leverhulme • Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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Britain gripped by old codger sex trials ... Coronation Street star has no memory of his accusers ... For Leverhulme, the world seems upside down ... "Judge Grendal" asks, where was the judge? ... London Calling
Sex offences, Sexual harassment Goings On ... • Thursday, February 6, 2014 Liberals and monarchists combine to push Victorian silks into QC option ... SCs dash for the bauble ... Creative destruction grabs law journalism by the throat ... Fresh judgment from Justice Roughshagger ... Bottle of bubbly cracked over the bow of P.G. Hely Chambers
Polly Peck • Monday, February 3, 2014 Changing guard at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption ... The life story of Justice Megan Latham ... Inspector Dave battens down the hatches ... Plan B for Abbott & Co ... Political crime sleuth Alex Mitchell reports
David Levine, ICAC, Justice Megan Latham Goings On ... • Friday, January 31, 2014 Upending free speech in the Top End ... A terrible Christmas time in The Map
Bar Talk • Thursday, January 30, 2014 Victorian silks pledge to be nice to wymyn barristers ... Bar-O-Meter ... Not all plain sailing for hurdlers doing the Quantum Leap ... Alix Piatek reports
Court in the Act • Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Defamatorium ... Clive Palmer's lessons in how not to wage a defamation action ... Acting for himself, then switching back to lawyers ... Failure to comply with case management rules ... Delays ... Last minute attempt to reactivate his case ... Submission for judge to recuse herself ... The kitchen sink ... Indemnity costs
Case management, Clive Palmer, Defamation, Indemnity costs Judges • Monday, January 27, 2014 Defamatorium ... Bias ... An abundance of applications for female defamation judges to recuse themselves ... Relatively few male judges face the same issue ... Why is this so?
Defamation, Judges Barry Lane • Tuesday, January 7, 2014 County Court of Victoria and the serious injury business ... WorkSafe bonuses to law firms ... $5m to Lander & Rogers ... VWA loses around 80 percent of the cases it contests ... Barry Lane remembers the Salvatore Verga litigation ... Chick Lander and his SOD-off policy
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Repetition of the same error does not amount to "consistent" conduct ... Property finance scam ... Law Society's case goes nowhere on appeal ... However, distressing findings in bank loans contract case ... And forgetting to tell the bar association all the bad things that happened in life ... Reporter Alix Piatek
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Year in review from Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch ... National Rifle Association's dreams come true ... Business lobby group wants more exploitation of the masses ... Guantánamo 11 years on ... Gay rights take hold ... As does the NSA
Gay rights, Guantanamo, NRA, NSA Around The Firms • Monday, December 16, 2013 Firms still adapting to globalised market ... Mergers completed as firms settle into new skins ... Lean year - time to trim down ... Thriving or surviving ... What's next? ... Law shops - a swift review of the year's activity
Clerks, Globalisation, Mergers, Year in review Tulkinghorn • Monday, December 16, 2013 Judges still able to sue for swimming pool or kitchen remodelling payouts ... Public choice theory ... Pursuit of judicial self-interest ... Employing relatives and friends as associates ... Hearing bias applications ... Pension benefits ... Judges declare that they should be able to sue for defamation damages ... Tulkinghorn on the case
Judicial bias, Judicial self-interest Goings On ... • Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Tightening the screws on prisoners ... Qld bar speaking from both sides of its mouth ... Dale gets Clutz to cough-up costs ... More bullying ... Handy loopholes in new solicitors' conduct rules
Polly Peck • Monday, December 9, 2013 Brandis watch ... Uncomfortable straddle on free speech ... Where was Soapy when the "F*** Tony Abbott" T-shirts were being marched off campus ... The attorney general's forgotten "back door" scheme to injunct the media
Free speech, George Brandis Procrustes • Wednesday, December 4, 2013 Another barney between the WA parliament and Chief Justice Wayne Martin ... Myer chairman and the Tory campaign to knock the Human Rights Commission off its perch ... Procrustes takes us on a journey and brings us full circle back to Wayne Martin and s.18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
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 Judges • Monday, December 2, 2013 Premier Barry O'Farrell disallows 2.5 percent pay rise for judges and magistrates ... NSW government wants judges to pay for superannuation increases ... State-federal judge pay relativity at risk ... Judges as "employees" of the state ... Paul Karp reports
Judges' pay, NSW government, SOORT