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 >>
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Around The Firms • Monday, May 9, 2011 Negotiations have resulted in minor revisions to the proposed Solicitors Conduct Rules ... At least three law societies found the LCA's original "ethical" rules objectionable ... Large law firms wag the dog
Ethics, Law Council of Australia Around The Firms • Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Compensation law firm in High Court fighting compensation claim by former salaried partner ... Harassment and humiliation led to anxiety, depression and agoraphobia ... 30 percent psychological impairment ... Can findings of medical panel be challenged?
Impairment, Maurice Blackburn, Personal injury Judges • Monday, May 2, 2011 Chief Justice of Victoria shunts the silk selection business ... Too busy for this beloved duty ... Dismay abounds as NSW model is in contention
Marilyn Warren, Silk selection, Victorian Bar Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, April 28, 2011 The Guantánamo files ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, provides some historical context ... The law of indefinite detention
Guantanamo Stephen Keim • Wednesday, April 27, 2011 The usual response of world leaders and the UN is to sit on their hands in the face of accountability for war crimes ... However, Libya has prompted a different response ... Easy to be brave about values when Gaddafi is the enemy ... Australian Lawyers for Human Rights comments
Human rights Tulkinghorn • Saturday, April 23, 2011 An over abundance of lawyers does not reduce fat cats' fees ... Anti-competitive rules disguised as ethical principles ... Why are conditional fees banned in criminal cases? ... They're not entirely ... Lionel Murphy and Freehills ... Tulkinghorn explores
Conditional fees, Ethics, No win no pay Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, April 21, 2011 Logjammed judicial vacancies gives the Chamber of Commerce a field day ... Bradley Manning's incarceration ... Nine year Guantanamo internments roll on without a remedy ... Federal Court indictments handed back to the Pentagon ... The anarchy of the Tea Party ... Our Man in Washington reports
Bradley Manning, Tea Party, US Supreme Court Goings On ... • Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Nanny state distress at The Australian ... Defence Association on the warpath ... Bar man leads insurgency against street art ... You can run, but not hide from today's juror ... The cabbie and Keli Lane's missing baby ... Inside sex, uncovered by The Kirby Institute
Court in the Act • Friday, April 15, 2011 Former tax man involved in private rulings' scam wants his trial jury investigated ... Strange blog postings allegedly give glimpse of distracted, snoozing jurors at "work" ... Secrets of the Stubby Holder ... When is there finality?
Bar Talk • Friday, April 15, 2011 Map of Tasmania ... Drama at Kingston Beach Golf Club ... Golfers play through as silk stuck in the rough ... Complaint to club president ... Native hen cull ... Earlier correspondence from Malthouse tax guru unearthed
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Vulture fund litigation ... Issue of Hong Kong's jurisdiction over the Congo (Democratic Republic of) ... Expensive counsel fly in from the UK ... Mountains of cash, Chinese politics and judicial independence of Hong Kong all in play ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Sovereign immunity Critics Corner • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Michael Kirby's monarchist mates rarely lent a hand to help him during the great crises of his life ... Tony Abbott was a royalist chum, but did nothing to stop Heffernan's onslaught ... The High Court was paralysed ... Gleeson and Gaudron shouting match over whether to support Kirby ... Review of impressive new biography, Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles
Mary Gaudron, Michael Kirby, Murray Gleeson, undefined Bar Talk • Wednesday, April 6, 2011 First days of the O'Barrell government ... True colours revealed ... Latest Sydney chambers whirligigs ... Tribute for Hodgman ... Unfounded rumours
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Miss Gillard goes to Washington ... Trousering $500 a minute ... Lovely send-offs for Spigs ... Feds reluctant to run with RICO ... Kerry O'Brien's multiple question technique ... Evan Whitton at large
Fred Rodell, Jim Spigelman, RICO City Desk • Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Struggle between the NSW Police Integrity Commission and the state Crime Commission back in court on April Fools Day ... NSWCC seeking to stop PIC investigation and media leaks ... New Police Minister vows to "sort this out" ... Crown Solicitor asked to produce pleadings relating to CC's fishing expedition for journalists' sources ... Cops and crims look on in delight
Crime Commission, PIC, Proceeds of Crime Barry Lane • Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Barry Lane takes issues with Marilyn Warren CJ ... By being a member of VicBar and openingly spruiking its cause the CJ might be getting up the nose of the bar's competitors ... It's mostly about self-interest and repelling boarders
Judicial independence, Victorian Bar Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, March 21, 2011 Batting Padilla around the federal circuit courts ... The varied meanings of habeas corpus ... "Material support for terrorism" up for review in CMCR ... The Raymond Davis case - Vienna Convention applied to CIA agent ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington
Guantanamo, Law of war Tulkinghorn • Monday, March 21, 2011 The legal profession and the judges are superb at propaganda and the maintenance of a cartel ... Propagation of notions that bear no relationship to reality ... Should the statue of justice wear a blindfold or not? ... Take your pick ... Tulkinghorn reports
Deceptions, Legal profession Judges • Friday, March 18, 2011 NSW Chief Justice Jim Spigelman wraps-up on May 31 ... Personal refreshment ... "Diverse range of tasks" awaits ... Who's next? ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports on possible candidates
NSW Supreme Court, Spigelman CJ, Spigeltent Hellfire Club • Friday, March 18, 2011 Vic Supremo orders hapless former solicitor to compensate the Fidelity Fund for payouts to victims ... When will the indignities cease?
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