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 • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Lord Denning's nutty final lunge for the history books as he unpacks his dark side ... Capital punishment ... Birmingham Six ... Lesbianism
Lord Denning, capital punishment Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 From Justinian's archive comes this compelling explanation as to why NSW's 1992 Law Week festivities had to be delayed ... Attorney General Collins was jammed ... Call of the Coral Sea ... Deja Vu
Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Remembering the fallout from the Adrian Powles affair ... Seasons greetings as Allens faced receivership in 1992-1993 ... Special bail-out arrangements put in place as the Supreme Court obligingly applied a suppression order to the proceedings ... Department of Deja Vu
Allen Allen & Hemsley Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 DPP brings tax case against eccentric barrister Cliff Pannam QC, then gives character evidence for him at bureau de spank ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... Let the heady days of September 1991 be a salutary reminder to all of us
Bureau de Spank, Clifford Pannam Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 From Justinian's archive ... It's September 1995 and Kate Fitzpatrick v Charles Waterstreet was in full swing before Justice Brownie of the NSW Supremes ... Lots of drama as the spotlight shines on the state of discovery and affidavits ... Deja Vu
Charles Waterstreet, Kate Fitzpatrick Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 The Age reported that tax barrister Ian Spry had been the subject of a police investigation following a complaint of stalking ... VicBar upset that he was named in the press ... Apparently a violation of the presumption of innocence ... Newspaper war claims a victim ... Déjà Vu ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... October 1995
Ian Spry QC, Victorian Bar Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 The rich repository of Justinian's archive helps us remember NT lawyer and politician Shane Stone's brush with the stipes ... The Bob Liddle affair ... Ducking and weaving over finding of unprofessional conduct ... Client's matrimonial file injected into the political fray ... Déjà Vu from June 1995
Shane Stone QC Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Move over Roddy Meagher, Michael Kirby is snapping at your heels ... From 1962 comes this attack in Honi Soit ... The brutality of student politicians ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... Déjà Vu
Michael Kirby, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 It was a very different world in 1989 ... In Scotland gay judges were being hounded off the bench ... Victualler at Valentine's Bar heard loose tongue flapping ... Hooker tapes Honkers prosecutor asking for underage sex ... From Justinian December 1989
Homosexuality, Judges, Underage sex