London Calling


The UK - it's a reality TV show ... Dave Cameron back in ... Prosecutor in trouble for pursuing an affair with the defendant ... Celebrity hacking trial against the Daily Mail pushes ahead ... Supreme Court sinks the Rwanda solution ... Solicitor binned after dangling a job that didn't exist ... HM spells out law 'n' order agenda ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty
Letter from Washington


Trump ramping up his next term ... Wrecking crew of lawyers on his team ... Authoritarian agenda ... New season for the Supreme Court ... Gun rights for perpetrators of domestic violence ... Texas prohibits wealth taxes - forever ... Entrenched voting distortions ... The new Speaker - a Christian Taliban ... Roger Fitch files
Star of the sea emits a twinkle


Stella Maris ... The Northern Territory Judicial Commission slowly swings into action ... Supreme Court judge to be investigated for "malice" ... Allegations of bullying and delayed judgments ... Mentors and councillors ahoy ... Creating an investigation unlikely to deliver a scalp ... Buffalo Bruce reports
Creative possibilities for the law of torts


Barbara McDonald - the high priestess of torts and privacy ... Former torts law professor at the University of Sydney ... What's on the horizon for the development of privacy and other torts ... The bureaucratisation of scholarship and academic life ... Life at the academy ... Interview with Ariana Haghighi
Blood and greed


Book review ... Killing for Country: A Family Story ... The colonial land grab ... Entitlement capitalism and the transformation of Australia in the 19th century ... The killing fields of the Native Police ... Failure of the law ... The foundations of a nation's character ... Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck