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
Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Riparian torrent soaks the golden triangle ... Firms in Brisvegas retreat to the Sofitel, the cellar door at Clovely Wines or dry digs interstate ... Sir Terence O'Rort surfaces
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Stitching-up Assange ... Ninth anniversary of Guantánamo ... More Gitmo-related cases head for the Supreme Court ... Trying to fathom the meaning of "material support" ... Not all terrorist organisations are opposed by Republicans ... Washing Dick Cheney's dirty linen ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Guantanamo, Julian Assange, material support City Desk • Friday, January 14, 2011 Big Brisbane law shops hoping to dry out soon ... Water laps Eagle Street ... Some firms stumping-up significant dollars for flood relief ... Timesheets can be downloaded at home ... Plenty of legal work to come ... Tom Westbrook reports
Brisbane law firms, floods Tulkinghorn • Monday, December 27, 2010 Economics and criminal defence lawyering ... The creation of a GETGO system ... Ethical rules and the twiddly bits ... Prosecutors are meant to stand still, while the other side does all the shooting ... How do I know whether I am guilty or not until I have seen the evidence? (Irish joke)
Criminal defence, Disclosure of evidence, Ethics City Desk • Friday, December 24, 2010 The Rule of Law Institute monitors and lobbies about the powers of ASIC ... It's patron is J.J. Spigelman ... Institute delighted with NSW CA's James Hardie decision ... Law & Development Institute wants the law to help poor countries economically ... Then there's the Australian Academy of Law ... What's happened to the AAL? ... Tom Westbrook investigates
Leverhulme • Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Feminists fight the Budget in court, and lose ... Freezing weather turns people beastly ... Protesting students have never had it so good ... Aussies, The Ashes and racism ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, December 12, 2010 WikiLeaks' cables reveal US skulduggery in protecting the CIA ... Time runs out for torture prosecutions ... Frightening Republicans capture key House committees ... Industries own the regulators ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Around The Firms • Friday, December 10, 2010 The independent legal profession at work ... Large law firms push through flawed conduct rules for solicitors ... Special provisions for conflicts of interest and referral fees ... "Informed consent" downgraded
Conduct Rules, Ethics Bar Talk • Friday, December 10, 2010 Victorian prosecutor Carolyn Burnside birched by the Court of Appeal ... Failure to disclose evidence helpful to the defence ... Miscarriage of justice ... Defence team alerted to earlier case by DPP just before appeal hearing ... Tom Westbrook investigates
Evan Whitton • Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Jarndyce lives ... Judges admit sophistry is a snack - yet the consequences are expensive ... Illicit carnal congress that has lasted for 844 years ... NSW coppers want right to silence modified ... What official inquiries need are the services of competent reporters ... Evan Whitton at large
Goings On ... • Friday, December 3, 2010 Shoot that lamb chop ... How not to run a trial with a self-represented accused ... Closed court for dishonest lawyer ... Theodora explores the map of Tasmania
Justice Tennent, Stephen Estcourt Barry Lane • Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The era of open media and leaks of state secrets confronts courts and governments ... No solution in sight ... Barry Lane says its best to lie back and surrender
Leverhulme • Thursday, November 25, 2010 Poms are delighted the Euro's in trouble ... A rumpled Lord Chancellor gets stuck into legal aid and prisons ... Kenneth Clarke says there's no direct connection between an increased prison population and falling crime rates ... Not bad for a Tory ... Leverhulme files from Blighty
Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, November 18, 2010 A Republican majority in the House likely to end in usual bout of resentment for the GOP ... Election threw up a few crooks and charlatans ... An American soldier can shoot in the battlefield, but it's a war crime if someone shoots back ... Review into whether charges against David Hicks were defective ... Wheels fell off Ghailani trial in Manhattan because the CIA tortured the accused ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Congress, Guantanamo, Law of war Goings On ... • Thursday, November 11, 2010 Cigarette smoking, champagne swigging Mary Gaudron brought much needed gusto and bluntness to the phlegmatic males who inhabited the High Court ... Sir Anthony Mason was one of those males and this week he launched a biography of Gaudron by the Canberra lawyer Pamela Burton - From Moree to Mabo ... Theodora reports
Mary Gaudron, Sir Anthony Mason Tulkinghorn • Thursday, November 11, 2010 J.J. Spigelman says it's easy for judges to make the law fit the result they want ... Plenty of froufrou can be conjured to enhance the judicial image ... Tulkinghorn opines on the secret lives of judges ... The curtain opens for a minute
Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Mediation to commence in the sexual harassment case brought by solicitor Bridgette Styles against the big law shop Clayton Utz
Defamation, Sexual harassment Judges • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Justice Bill Wilson saved himself and the NZ judiciary further embarrassment when last month he resigned from the Supreme Court ... On the way out he dumped the country's chief justice Dame Sian Elias in the horse merde
Conflict of interest Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Murder by milkshake ... Foreign counsel to the fore in retrial of rich banker's wife for murder of control freak husband ... Overseas barristers can help develop the local bar - but only in moderation ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong