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 >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... 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 >>
Debbie Does Damien ... Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... ABC's Law Report ... The ins and out of live streaming and the media's access to documents ... More >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Deja Vu • Friday, March 17, 2023 Worm reviews an alarming ABC documentary on Alec and Lorraine Shand's married life ... The top end silk looking for affaction and support ... Mrs Shand should stop complaining ... Making a mess of priorities ... Counselling does wonders ... Or does it? ... From Justinian's Archive, October 2000
Alec Shand Deja Vu • Thursday, March 9, 2023 Remembering John Marsden's defamation case against Channel Seven ... Claim that the former president of the NSW Law Society had sex with under-age boys ... Inviting journalists to reveal identity of witness whose name had been suppressed ... From Justinian's Archive, April 20, 2000
Contempt, Defamatorium, John Marsden Around The Firms • Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Law shop's misadventures in the Solomons ... Gold digging ... Proceedings against mining company goes awry ... Lawyer rides off on his Harley ... Forgotten history ... From Justinian's Archive, September 3, 2002
Slater & Gordon Deja Vu • Friday, December 16, 2022 Book review ... Portraits on Yellow Paper by P.R. Meagher and Simon Fieldhouse reviewed by Michael Kirby ... The reviewer sprinkles caustic comments about former appeal justice's character assassinations ... From the archives ... April 7, 2004
Michael Kirby, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Did DPP Nick Cowdery mislead the attorney general? ... Prisoner whose conviction had been quashed seeks ex gratia payment ... Opposed by the DPP ... After more than eight years the NSW Court of Appeal decides, sort of ... Molomby vanquished ... From Justinian's Archive ... December 4, 2003
Deja Vu • Thursday, November 24, 2022 Contempt verdict over Plain English outburst ... Ruddster's "P" for the High Court ... Activist hack's dire warning on judicial appointments ... The living' is easy for Tubby Callinan ... Toad Hall comes to Mallesons ... Adding up the bills in the big, fat Channel Seven litigation ... Theodora reports ... From Justinian's Archive, January 16, 2008
Theodora • Friday, August 26, 2022 From June 2003, a reprise of Theodora's notebook ... Wild predictions on viceroy appointment ... Michael Kirby's keeps his money to himself ... Media chillers on the bench ... Federal Court tiff ... Victoria's Labor government on silken baubles ... Travel expenses for High Court judges at conferenceville ... Mary Gaudron's slow clock
Bar Talk • Wednesday, July 20, 2022 The John Cummins tax saga ... JC, QC, AJC ... Failure to lodge tax returns for 40 years ... Estranged wife ordered to send half the proceeds of the sale of Hunters Hill home to the bankruptcy trustee ... Mary Cummins catering business escapes the trustee's clutches ... From Justinian's archive, October 1, 2002
Goings on ... What was life like in 2000 ... Theodora ... Déjà Vu ... From Justinian's archive, December 15, 2000 ... John Marsden ... SCs in Victoria ... NT's silk selection process ... Self regulation is not the same as regulation ... Corrs blimey ... Harts & Flowers
Deja Vu • Thursday, May 26, 2022 Slices from Justinian's past ... There's an eerie familiarity to old news ... Sharing tidings from the hard copy era ... From Justinian's archive ... Stories from March 1988 and December 1994
NSW politics, Stuart Littlemore Deja Vu • Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Alec Shand v Jackson McDonald ... Excessive and unreasonable fees ... Law firm refuses to cough-up for Laurie Connell defence ... Charging for time not worked ... Unprepared ... Scandalous, even for a second-hand car dealer ... Gouging the rich ... Stephen Archer on hand ... From Justinian's archive, September 1999
Barristers' fees The Map • Tuesday, June 16, 2020 City Desk ... Silken art critic floored … Restraint of Dr Scutt fades … BYO at The Tasmanian Club …Well done Wayne ... Entire family escapes public hanging ... From Justinian's Archive, April 30, 2003
Map of Tasmania Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Author Bri Lee's book Eggshell Skull scoops up another prize - this time at the Australian Book Industry Awards ... A story of childhood sexual assault ... While the book continues to collect awards, the author's view about how natural justice ought to work should be read with caution ... Lawyer Joanna Jenkins' critique
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Enjoying a Slice of Samoa ... Fees burnt in Cauldron blaze ... "Don't hesitate - litigate" ... More prosecutors take to the bench
Monday, November 28, 2016 Launch of Stephen Walmsley's book The Trials of Justice Murphy ... Legal and political history ... Mixed crowd from the law, journalism and literature receive David Marr's speech in frosty silence ... Despite the jury verdict, the question remains, why did Lionel do it? ... Marr's launch speech, unexpurgated
Saturday, November 5, 2016 Barrister wants his name and critical paragraphs removed from FCC judgment ... Donors' Day ... Application for suppression of the juicy bits ... Sperm donor parenting dispute ... Naaman Zhou reports
Thursday, August 11, 2016 Choice cuts from Ian Hancock's biography of Tom Hughes, A Cab on the Rank ... A painful move from 11 Selborne ... Skyrocketing fees ... Great cases ... Lionel Murphy - "not an easy client" ... Diary observations of judges, barristers and bar etiquette
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Allen Allen & Hemsley's Uncle Charlie tax scheme for Sir John Kerr ... Kerr's last drunken months as GG were spent planning an elaborate tax subterfuge ... Cloak and dagger for Mr Frederick King
Friday, May 20, 2016 Marketing breakthrough as barrister appears on the side of trams ... Reptiles of the media warned not to connect coke sniffing associate with Federal Court judges ... Gilbert + Tobin spruces its image but keeps the plus ... Industrial action - how the Poms campaigned effectively against Cameron government's legal aid cuts