Goat stew ... Clandestine footage of slaughterhouse ... Full Feds gives copyright on constructive trust to goat butchery business ... Allegations of animal cruelty ignored ... Uncertainty for future public interest cases ... Jackboots stomps ... FCA roundsman Phillip Cake reports ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read 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 >>
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News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >>
The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >>
Hellfire Club • Monday, April 26, 2021 Elderly barrister out of tune with contemporary mores ... Left without a chair when the music stopped ... Spanked for sexual harassment of a junior female ... Confusion about "comforting gesture" ... Flippant remarks ... Arm around shoulder ... Unfunny jokes ... Alan Zheng reports
Polly Peck • Monday, April 19, 2021 Sexual harassment allegations from the cloacal underbelly of One Nation ... Former senator suing P. Hanson ... Former staffer also suing over alleged sexual harassment by ex-senator ... Deed of release - Commonwealth not liable ... Another scarifying experience of political life ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case
Court in the Act • Monday, April 19, 2021 Coppers from Strike Force Raptor harass NSW country solicitor acting for a bikie ... Intimidation ... Stalked, shaken and stirred ... Prevented from representing the client ... A good wet lettuceing ... Law Society knocks on the commissioner's door ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Friday, April 16, 2021 As Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan the war involving VC recipient Ben Robert-Smith heats up ... New allegations against the former soldier ... Defamation proceedings have not kyboshed fresh news breaks ... Kerry Stokes' role as a litigation funder ... Hero worship knows no bounds ... Important trial for journalism and public interest reporting
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, April 6, 2021 The Cold War and its spies ... Getting military secrets out of the Soviet Union ... Cuban missile crisis ... Khrushchev unhinged ... Let's Twist Again ... How MI6 and the CIA betrayed their informant ... Benedict Cumberbatch, as the ordinary Greville Wynne, comes to the "rescue" ... Miss Lumière at the flicks
Court in the Act • Thursday, April 1, 2021 Buffalo Bruce • Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Top End capers ... NT judge says she was defamed by silk in an article in which she wasn't named ... Article said to be indefensible ... Judge threatens to take it further ... History of bad blood ... Journalist complains about ripe language from barrister ... Another first ... Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin