Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... 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 >>
Lib-Nat government of Queensland appoints two new senior judges ... Court of Appeal and Northern Supreme Court ... Doyle KC and Johnstone KC ... Both from the same chambers ... Diversity at work ... More >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
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 ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
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Bar Talk • Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Letter to Justinian from NSW bar 'n' grill ... In defence of readers fees ... Barrister's homophobic attack deplored ... Response to Dance of the sugar plum fairy
NSW Bar Association, Readers Bar Talk • Friday, November 22, 2013 Anti-gay rant from barrister ... Upsetting bar election results ... The Page Boy to receive a good talking-to ... Bar's monopoly fees for readers ... Jarrod Bleijie is dancing rings around No Waves
Court in the Act • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Department of inhuman resources ... Question time ... WorkCover NSW in the dock over bullying ... The workplace health and safety enforcer with an unhealthy workplace ... Alix Piatek reports
WorkCover NSW Hellfire Club • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Defenestration of Qld's independent legal profession regulator ... Powerless to administer decent spanks ... The system was designed to be half-baked ... Alix Piatek reports
Around The Firms • Monday, November 18, 2013 Clerkship candidates share law firm stories and advice online ... Networking and marks the key to getting a foot in the door ... Beware the perils of the cocktail party ... Paul Karp surveys the social media strategy helping students get past the spin
Clerkships, Law firms, Law students Procrustes • Monday, November 18, 2013 Louis Brandeis J warned you about evesdropping ... Undercover work and the risk of paternity suits ... Queensland's VLAD law clearly aimed at criminal clubs such as the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches ... Well-educated Brit trooper shoots Taliban prisoner ... Procrustes opines
Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 13, 2013 No costs when offer of compromise has grammatical errors ... Apologise to Wal, insists Antagonistic ... Clients get money back from national law shop
Court in the Act • Monday, November 11, 2013 Map of Tasmania ... Minimal laughter at editor's oration to magistrates ... Lingering questions unanswered ... Ellis case
Magistrates, Map of Tasmania, Tim Ellis Bar Talk • Monday, November 11, 2013 Expectoration in Phillip Street ... Keys hands in his key at St James Hall ... Ginger Snatch reports
Bruce McClintock, Stuart Littlemore Polly Peck • Thursday, November 7, 2013 Labor barrister returns to NSW parliament ... Collier's by-election victory rescues Opposition Leader John Robertson from caucus coup ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell recalls Keating's anti-Robbo spray
NSW politics Judges • Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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Vroom, Vroom ... Qld magistrates go on red alert for bikie menace ... Court of Appeal to decide on separation of powers ... Or will appeal judges do "what the community wants"?
Around The Firms • Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Defamatorium ... Kim Williams lawyers-up against the newspaper his lawyers used to defend ... Opera House hissy fit denied ... Working both sides of Libel Street ... It's not over till the fat lady sings
Defamation, Fairfax Media, Kim Williams, Mark O'Brien Judges • Sunday, November 3, 2013 Out of the closet ... Vic Supremes showing its face to the world ... NSW CJ skeptical about social media ... Different approaches to handling spreading the rule-of-law message ... Alix Piatek reports
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Rich pickings to be had from new season at the Supremes ... All aboard for questioning on the high seas ... NY trials for alleged embassy bombers ... What to do with all the evesdropped information? ... IT problems for defence counsel at Guantánamo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports
CIA torture, Guantanamo, Law of war, Taliban Around The Firms • Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Entertainment law field not crowded but full of "pretenders" ... Technology, not competition, the real game changer ... Paul Karp surveys the specialist firms with glamour-puss clients
Arts law, Brett Oaten, Entertainment Law, Kay & Hughes, Simpsons Bar Talk • Monday, October 28, 2013 The Wyles One touting new numbers favouring QC option for Yarraside bar ... Five percent speak ... Sydney barrister Greg Curtin issues bar election manifesto: solicitors can be bad for the administration of justice
Hellfire Club • Sunday, October 27, 2013 Foul mouthed Queensland lawyer sent, again, to the Bureau de Spank ... Doesn't care, as he says he's about the retire ... Doug and his Winning ways ... SA Supreme Court says public confidence in the legal profession is of the utmost importance ... Oops, they much have forgotten the hit-and-run case of Eugene McGee
Bar Talk • Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Unsatisfactory professional conduct … Delayed flight ... Trial missed … Trouble getting off sub-tropical island ... Conferenceville ... Rest and recreation ... Egregious error
Polly Peck • Monday, October 21, 2013 Eddie (The Sheik) Obeid returns to ICAC on October 28 ... Circular Quay leases under the microscope ... Has Carl (Sparkles) Scully's payback time arrived? ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell exhumes the details
Eddie Obeid, ICAC Goings On ... • Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Rough end of the pineapple ... Queensland government binging on bikie laws ... Chief Madge herding his flock on bikie bail ... Boy attorney general's VLAD legislation … Peanut gallery for Tasmanian DPP's negligent driving hearings
Bikies, NCAT, Peter Callaghan, Queensland magistrates, Tim Ellis