Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >>
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 >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
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 >>
Justinian's archive
Polly Peck • Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Soapy Brandis still nagging about David Hicks ... The shadow AG's big policy gesture: confiscate the proceeds of Hicks' book ... It is far from clear that this is possible
David Hicks, George Brandis, Proceeds of Crime Judges • Friday, March 11, 2011 UPDATE ... "Earl" Warren says the Victorian bar should do some deep strategic thinking about its future ... It has dropped the ball and allowed law firms to steal its turf ... Fight back ... Promote ... Get with it ... Also, the reinvigorated notion of "duty to the court"
Duties to the court, Victorian Bar Judges • Thursday, March 10, 2011 "Earl" Warren CJ says the Victorian bar should do some deep strategic thinking ... It's dropped the ball and allowed law firms to steal its turf ... Fight back ... Promote ... Expand into new territory ... Get technological ... Get with it
Victorian Bar Barry Lane • Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Brunswick solicitor has costs victory in eight year losing battle over repairs to his Toyota Camry ... Luby's Mobile Mechanic charged $705.32 to fix the engine ... Lawyers charged $46,000 for trial and appeal ... If you stick with the litigation long enough there's bound to be a break through ... Barry Lane reports from Yarraside
Sir Terence O'Rort • Monday, March 7, 2011 Increase in X chromosomes on Queensland Supreme Court ... Attorney General Dick's outgoing appointments ... Sir Terence O'Rort analyses the great social, cultural and gender shifts in the Queensland judiciary
William Collins • Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Protestant ascendancy struck from William Angliss' trusts ... Religious requirement for trustees no longer appropriate ... Butchers, bakers, cooks and waiters graduating from the William Angliss Institute considerably relieved ... William Collins reports from Yarraside
Bar Talk • Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Famous silks enraged by sudden demotion to low-rank "leading juniors" in The Australian/Chambers legal ratings ... Newspaper's lavish boast ... Egg on face difficult to remove
Barristers, Legal rankings, Silks Evan Whitton • Friday, February 25, 2011 We need a comprehensive list of guilty beaks ... RICO legislation well overdue ... Dworkin's theory of law fails to grasp the importance of money ... Deep within the system we find the Wisners ... Evan Whitton at large
Leverhulme • Friday, February 25, 2011 Leverhulme goes to Chancery Lane to chat about alternative business structures with legal practice guru Stephen Mayson ... Bold new ways of running law shops take effect in October ... Parallels with NSW's structural adventures
Around The Firms • Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Serious new allegations emerged from a defamation case against Russell Keddie, Tony Barakat and Scott Roulstone ... Court of Appeal did not allow trial to accommodate malice claims within time frame ... Buying off conduct complaints underscores failure of the disciplinary system
Overcharging, professional conduct City Desk • Wednesday, February 23, 2011 The law and justice spokespeople for the main parties were put through their paces at a Community Justice forum in Sydney on the weekend ... Opposition parties want to make significant changes to the "penal colony" ... Labor is stuck with its record ... Tom Westbrook reports
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, February 15, 2011 WikiLeaks and espionage ... First birthday for Citizens United ... Extra curricula political activities haunt Justices Scalia and Thomas ... Local district courts riven by politics ... Our Man in Washington reports
Julian Assange, Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Systematic judicial bias in favour of the legal profession ... Prof. Benjamin Barton's latest sally ... Ordinary citizens see what's going on ... Lawyers don't ... Accountants sent to jail for doing the same thing lawyers do with impunity ... Tulkinghorn flings down some burning oil
Judicial bias Around The Firms • Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Indemnity costs order made against former Keddies' partners ... Negligence action brought against Stacks/Goudkamp had no reasonable prospects of success ... Judge Colefax's reasons referred to the Legal Services Commissioner
Leverhulme • Friday, February 4, 2011 Forget Egypt ... The biggest news in Britain is the performance of a couple of buffoon sports commentators on Rupe's Sky network ... The Red Tops in a frenzy over sexist wisecracks ... More defo and privacy actions loom ... Leverhulme sorts out Tony Blair ... Chilcot's sure to nail the former PM
Defamation, Privacy, Sky Sports, Tony Blair Around The Firms • Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Law firms pump-out the press releases ... Slater & Gordon hires more social workers for needy clients ... Brydens wants the Libs to loosen-up on injury law ... White & Case brands the Jessup Moot
Stephen Keim • Saturday, January 29, 2011 High Court breathes fresh life into implied right of political speech ... Robert French's court opens intriguing new possibilities ... Stephen Keim and Mary Ayad examine Aid/Watch v Commissioner of Taxation
Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, January 25, 2011 The Kafkaesque world of case flow management ... Surviving the Intervention Notice pantomime ... Case management judge skewered by Qld CA ... Sir Terence O'Rort reporting from Brisvegas
City Desk • Sunday, January 23, 2011 UPDATE ... Bret Walker disagrees with Crown Solicitor's advice ... Power of parliamentary committee to summon witnesses while parliament is prorogued ... Gentrader inquiry to proceed ... Heaps of opinions on Parliament v Executive
Evan Whitton • Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Barrister wants to know how many crates of champers can fit in a Ferrari? ... Chris Mullin's A View from the Foothills ... Official government liars ... Lyndon Johnson thought Australia was a "shirt tail frill" ... Blair exposed as another frill ... Evan Whitton at large
Bob Menzies, Chris Mullin, Igor Judge, Tony Blair