Class action against pro-Palestine academics at the University of Sydney ... Toltz v Riemer; Toltz v Keane ... Federal Court file >>
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 >>
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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 >>
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Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife.
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about.
Comment - Untamed opinions.
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics.
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on.
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar.
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout.
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs.
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions.
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher.
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions.
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Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh • Monday, June 10, 2013 As the latest snoop revelations show, the security apparatus knows no limits ... How Australia played a role in secret detention and extraordinary rendition ... Globalizing Terror ... The case of Khaled El-Masri ... The ECHR tells a harrowing story of prisoner abuse ... From Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh
Felicity Gerry • Thursday, June 6, 2013 UK criminal barrister Felicity Gerry in the Top End ... Meeting Les, witness number five at the Bradley Murdoch trial ... Picked-up by "ex-police officers with a mining interest" ... Spicy meat pies at the Barrow Creek Hotel and other Territory treats
Bradley Murdoch, Northern Territory Junior Junior • Wednesday, June 5, 2013 When do I get to fly business class? ... Is it true that as barristers' incomes grow, they lose touch with the early years of poverty? ... Why is that small licks of money are spent as though the good times never end? ... Junior Junior ponders these and other questions, as she prepares for an economy flight on China Air
Dr Criminale • Thursday, May 23, 2013 The trials and tribulations of law school lecturing ... Achievers, plodders and bottom dwellers ... University entry requirements lowered - a boon for bottom-dwellers ... Ten percent take up 25 percent of the time and effort ... Senior law lecturer Dr Criminale takes to his keyboard and blogs
Law faculties, Law students, Universities Laura Norna • Sunday, May 19, 2013
Updated on Friday, May 24, 2013 by
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New South Wales' new bail legislation ... Presumption against bail still there in all but name ... Juveniles get one extra chance to reapply ... In last 30 years the proportion of the prison population on remand has doubled ... Legislation designed to please the police ... Former magistrate Max Taylor reports
Bail, NSW Law Reform Commission Theodora • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Rolf Harris named in the mainstream media following his arrest ... Now lawyers and MPs want to restrict naming of people arrested, but not yet charged ... The Jimmy Savile affair and the spread of allegations ... "Everyone" knew, but no one did anything ... Where's the money? ... Investigation industry thriving ... Theodora on the case
Defamation, Jimmy Savile, Sexual abuse Junior Junior • Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Baby barristers are such a bargain, so why aren't they snaffled-up? ... Junior Junior says clients should get rid of over-priced panel firms and use in-house solicitors as the go-betweens ... Saves money, which could then be spent on the barrister
Billings, Fees, In-house solicitors Stephen Keim • Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Runaway hit ... Book about the war on drugs in the US and the criminalisation of large parts of the Afro-American population ... Supreme Court validates racial bias of the criminal justice system ... Blacks like crack cocaine, whites prefer powder cocaine ... Sentencing discrepancies ... US incarceration rate the highest in the world ... Book review by Stephen Keim
Criminal justice, Racism, US Supreme Court Dorothy Says ... • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Fellas want to get their hands on that huge file ... What's Gail got that's so magic? ... Apparently she's a "straight shooter" ... But then, there's a f**k-up ... Whose f**k-up? ... Dorothy explains
Billings, Schadenfreude, Team players, The Firm Junior Junior • Tuesday, February 26, 2013 The hidden role of pre-menstrual syndrome at the bar ... Man-flu seems a perfectly acceptable ground for non-appearance ... The role of the hot-water bottle ... Junior Junior on secret women's business
Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, February 25, 2013 Google v ACCC ... Advertisements are advertisements and Google's AdWords isn't responsible if they are misleading ... Challenge to make search engines more accountable, without destroying their openness and convenience ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski examine the case and the policy issues
Advertising, Google, High Court of Australia Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, February 18, 2013
Updated on Monday, February 18, 2013 by
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HSI v Kyodo ... Challenging the government to protect Australia's Antarctic whale sanctuary ... Four years of Federal Court argy-bargy to get an injunction against Japanese whalers ... ICJ and the legality of Japan's permits under whaling "research" program ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski look at the cases
Felicity Gerry • Monday, February 11, 2013 Mirian Margoyles' view of Australia as a land of opportunity and equality doesn't quite fit with the way whitefella law is dished-up to Aborigines in the Top End ... What to make of Dennis Rostron's case ... Observations from visiting London criminal lawyer Felicity Gerry
Aboriginal defendant, Northern Territory, Parole Theodora • Friday, February 8, 2013
Updated on Friday, February 15, 2013 by
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It's a pity the denizens of Sydney were deprived of reading many of the details of criminal proceedings involving the Ibrahim family ... Heavy-handed court suppression orders effectively shut-off news reporting of a conspiracy to murder case against Michael Ibrahim ... John Ibrahim's name also ordered to be unmentionable
Suppression orders Stephen Keim & Benedict Coyne • Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Court ordered sex reassignment surgery for convicted murderer ... Transsexuals' rights to medical treatment in prison ... Cruel and unusual punishment ... 8th amendment ... Political and media storm over judge's decision ... Reassurance for Bradley Manning's female alter-ego ... Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne report