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 >>
Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Vic Appeals says that "infelicitous" remarks from the trial judge were not unfair ... Trial judge is "not trying to be unhelpful", yet undermines defence counsel ... Murder case where the jury sees the judge poo-poo the defence ... Failure to be circumspect ... Summing-up miscarries the entire show ... Court orders another round ... Ginger Snatch reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, May 29, 2020 Miss Lumière's guide to eight of the best and two of the worst on a screen near you ... The not-so idiot box ... Documentaries, drama, politics, sex ... From Lee Miller to Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein ... The human experience in its many shades
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 28, 2020 The month of May brings out the best of the bench ... Shifty agency running the NDIS scheme ... Breakthrough ... The Full Feds say that a sex worker/therapist should be funded for a woman with a serious disability ... In NSW the CA makes adoption orders affecting a young Aboriginal woman ... Justice Leeming writes to her directly ... From judges' associate, Ginger Snatch
Court in the Act • Monday, May 25, 2020 What has been the fate of open justice during a time of closed courts? ... Remote access for reporters ... Technical issues ... Costumes and clothes ... Freezing video links ... Wrong names ... Twiddling of thumbs ... Smooth operators at the Fed ... Nail bars, beauty salons and courts slowly open their doors, yet e-justice is here to stay ... Janek Drevikovsky explores
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 20, 2020 SCOTUS tussle over congressional subpoenas for Trump's financial records ... Presidential immunity rejected in Nixon and Clinton cases ... Republicans want a compliant Supreme Court ... Yet, POTUS not doing well in the lower courts ... Attorney General's political manipulation of the judiciary ... Alarms and diversions for the election... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Court in the Act • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 A city in semi-lockdown grieves for big swinging solicitor ... Costs battle against former client goes down the gurgler ... Conflict of interest ... Work under retainer adverse to clients interests ... Unsanitisable activities ... Solicitors expected to honour their word ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Striking off ... Francis Burt alumnus sent packing ... Murder and defamation trials followed by disciplinary proceedings ... A gruelling 13-year grind through the courts ... The final lap uncontested ... Wife illegally recorded ... No legal professional privilege ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Janek Drevikovsky explains
Obit • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 The former NSW Supreme Court defamation judge David Levine died on May 11 at the age of 75 ... The Gazette pays tribute to him with a collection of memories from friends and colleagues ... Contributions from Tom Blackburn SC, Richard Coleman, Judith White, Judge Judith Gibson, Peter Semmler QC, Robyn Ayres, Sophie Dawson and Jim Micallef
Goings On ... • Thursday, May 14, 2020 Cluster news ... Government panel firms - who got what ... CJ v AG - further Torrenside tensions ... Entrapping hookers ... New broom at the Federal Court ... Court's own breach of the Migration Act ... Pre-virus hand-washing advice from Hobart ... Fresh entry in Hamill J's catalogue of catchwords and citations ... Theodora reports