Potty Mouth Solicitor Dispatched ... NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults ... Insufficiently professional ... Arrived from Greece with only his underpants ... No contrition ... Anthony Kanaan files ... Read more >>
The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >>
Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... From Stephen Murray at the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Read more >>
Above The Law ... Introducing the Big Law Spine Index ... Trump's attack on the rule of law ... How the major firms are managing the assault on their independence ... More >>
Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... Read more >>
Abolish silks ... Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002 ... 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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Friday, March 24, 2023 Capturing the essence of constitutional thinking ... Three former High Court judges write in favour of the Voice ... One against (three guesses) ... Overview of the principal contentions ... Justinian wields the scissors and paste pot
Victoria Mole, Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Victoria's plan for centralised health records ... Compulsory opt-in ... No opt-out ... Human rights and privacy concerns ... Potential leakage of sensitive personal details ... Digital records of the unhealthy ... Hugh Vuillier reports from Yarraside
Human rights, Privacy, Public health, Victoria Foreign Correspondence • Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Strikes, protests and disruption ... The revolutionary spirit persists over planned new retirement age for French workers ... Wine spilt in the 4th ... Country could run out of pension money as contributions dwindle ... Sir Withnail on the latest manifestations
Barely Legal • Wednesday, November 9, 2022 An exam paper with built-in "reputational damage" ... University grovels to upset law student ... Same scenario used in earlier exams ... Extension of time granted for stress ... Max Shanahan reports on an awful calamity
Law school, Law students, University of Sydney Thursday, November 3, 2022 Vic Bar readers' course and exam ... Monstrously hard exam with high failure rate ... Clogged course ... Bulging waiting lists ... Skewed demographic of bar entrants ... The overflow ... Barriers to entry ... Joseph Friedman reports
Polly Peck • Monday, October 31, 2022 Government propaganda ... Advertising expenditure by state and federal governments ... Money is no object ... Taxpayer funds for political purposes ... Another version of pork-barrelling ... Hugh Vuillier reports
Advertising, Politics Barely Legal • Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Horse guard for Sydney law students at annual knees-up ... Attempt to revive fond memories of the Malcolm Turnbull protest ... Dub-dub remix at White Bay ... Barely Legal reports
Law students, University of Sydney Barely Legal • Thursday, June 9, 2022 In search of dispute resolution ... What the Bible tells us about negotiation and arbitration ... Eve and the serpent - a failure to negotiate properly ... Catastrophic consequences ... King Solomon and the Commercial Arbitration Act ... Just, quick and cheap ... Eamonn Murphy and Ariana Haghighi escape from a dry tutorial
Arbitration, Bible, Law school, Negotiation Monday, May 16, 2022 Chief Justice Andrew Bell ... Urging an end to remoteness ... At loggerheads with Victorian counterpart ... Profession in peril ... Conviviality is king ... Trouble padding-up ... Max Shanahan reports
Barely Legal • Thursday, April 21, 2022 Sifting the digital histories of lawyers headed to the judiciary ... Social media engagement that shows a life led more fully may also act as a disqualification ... Judges being louche as youngsters is not something we're used to ... We should adapt, otherwise the selection pond gets smaller ... From Nina Dillon Britton
Judges, Judicial appointments, Social media Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Order of the Gilded Wombat ... Hands on the staff but keep your hands off the gongs ... What about Queen's Counsel? ... Campaign to confiscate honours from sexual offenders ... Comparison with the Einfeld case ... New discrimination and harassment rules for briefs ... Theodora on the case
Barely Legal • Thursday, March 17, 2022 The subjects they choose ... Divining the character and culture of law students ... What becomes of them? ... Corporations and tax ... Labour law ... Sports law ... Antonin Scalia law ... Human rights .. Equity ... Philosophy ... The different choices are defining ... Barely Legal reports
Law students, University of Sydney Barely Legal • Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal
Law school, Law students, University of Sydney Barely Legal • Tuesday, February 22, 2022 What do law students do during the summer break ... Start a newspaper ... A counterpoint to the law's dry stuff ... First edition of Amicus Courier online now ... From Djokovic to haiku ... Eamonn Murphy reports
Law students, University of Sydney Barely Legal • Tuesday, February 8, 2022 A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart