Two more years for Sia Lagos as CEO and Principal Registrar of the FCA ... More >>
Appeasement ... Craven backdowns galore … Creative Australia – how to avoid “divisive debates” … Grovels and concealments follow the “Undercover Jew” fiasco … Suppression orders protecting Lattouf terminators … No waves at the Yarts Ministry … Preselection jeopardy for pro-Palestinian pollie … Justice Lee dabbles in “sentient citizenship” … Semites and antisemitism ... Read on ...
Rome is burning ... Giorgia Meloni's right-wing populist regime threatens judicial independence ... Moves to strip constitutional independence of La Magistratura ... Judges on the ramparts ... The Osama Almasri affair ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Fresh blood appointed to the Federal Court and the FCFC (Divs 1 & 2)
London Calling ... Law n Order in Blighty ... King invites the King for State visit ... Grovels aplenty ... Magistrate over does the "send him down" ... Musos strike an angry chord about AI encroachment ... Law shops protect the billable hour ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files ... Read more >>
Damien Carrick ... For 23 years Carrick has presented the Law Report on ABC Radio National ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests ... On The Couch ... Read more >>
Pat's wobbly evidence in defamation case ... Remembering the great Pat O'Shane's defamation case against culture warrior Janet (The Planet) Albrechtsen ... Pat comes home at the trial and most of the damages on appeal ... When Fairfax defended Albrechtsen ... From Justinian's Archive, April 15, 2004 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
City Desk • Thursday, March 6, 2025 Remembering the great Pat O'Shane's defamation case against culture warrior Janet (The Planet) Albrechtsen ... Pat comes home at the trial and most of the damages on appeal ... When Fairfax defended Albrechtsen ... From Justinian's Archive, April 15, 2004
Defamatorium Goings On ..., Theodora • Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Cash cow has to claw its way back to the LCA's inner sanctum ... Stephen Estcourt cleans up in Mercury settlement ... Amex rides two horses in expiring guarantee cases ... Simmo bins the paperwork ... Attorneys General should not come from the solicitors' branch ... Goings On from February 9, 2009
Deja Vu • Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Scene beside the lake ... Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon ... A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good ... Taxi driver's failure to lament ... From Justinian's Archive, February 2, 2009
High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby Bar Talk • Wednesday, October 9, 2024 The then Media Watch host and one of the country's most magnificent silks birched in the High Court for not sticking to the rules ... Scratchy Stu ... From Justinian's Archive, May 1997
Stuart Littlemore Court in the Act • Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Judges' associate Ginger Snatch hangs out in the Blue Mountains with a whole pile of Dizzo judges ... NSW Court of Appeal lashes poor wretches lower down the stare decisis food chain for poor quality reasoning ... In Queensland a costs assessor fails to "inspire confidence" … From Justinian's Archive, April 17, 2007
Theodora • Thursday, June 13, 2024 Winning tickets at the pro bono awards ... Prizes for Vic's AG ... Court vacancies - filled and unfilled ... Hugh Keller's recipes for wellness ... DPP Cowdery wants life ... Geographic ordeal for Bossley Park ... Meagher's art - the definition of clutter ... Theodora reports ... From Justinian's Archive, June 11, 2003
Federal Court, NSW DPP, Pro Bono, Roddy Meagher, Wellness Judges • Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004
Judges • Monday, March 25, 2024 Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004
Deja Vu, Sentencing Friday, March 22, 2024 Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Theodora • Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Press freedom ... Front cover drama at Law Council organ ... Pauline Hanson and the KKK ... Big shots in San Francisco hauled into crisis session ... Secret recording ... Pig Iron Bob to the rescue ... From Theodora ... Justinian's Archive, September 1997
Deja Vu • Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Defrocked barrister faced "iciness" at the ADT ... Double helpings of bias ... Tribunal can't help making adverse decisions about the former brief ... Fair minded citizens on the Emu Plains omnibus ... From Justinian's Archive, November 11, 2004
Evan Whitton • Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Ethics and misleading the court ... Representing the guilty ... Moral standards ... Whatever it takes ... From columnist Evan Whitton ... Justinian's Archive, September 22, 2004
Professional ethics Evan Whitton • Wednesday, August 16, 2023 The origins and evolution of sedition, from 1450 to today ... Howard and Ruddock dusting down the H. Talbot Gibbs' plan ... Reprising columnist Evan Whitton, who also unveils his new book, a mercifully brief and fun tome called Serial Liars ... From Justinian's Archive, November 28, 2005
Deja Vu • Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Defamatorium ... The libel scene back then ... Marsden to the rescue ... All fires are suspicious, until they're not ... Jury breakthrough on the defamatory meaning of "homosexual" ... From Justinian's Archive, November 11, 2003
Defamatorium Wednesday, June 28, 2023 The messy carve-up of James Hardie Industries ... "Fully funded" asbestos liabilities ... Cancelling the partly paid shares ... Breach of duty to judge ... David Jackson's findings ... From Justinian's Archive, September 21, 2004
Deja Vu • Thursday, June 8, 2023 It's 1959, or maybe 1960 ... Commem Day at the University of Sydney ... History ... A Cold War celebration ... Dyson Heydon dressed as a Russian babushka ... Why exactly, we're not sure ... Students up to something ... From Justinian's Photo Archive
Dyson Heydon Deja Vu • Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002
Deja Vu • Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Troubling allegations from former President of the NSW Law Society ... Letter to the Judicial Commission ... No magic button for gays ... Explaining gay issues to Ernie Schmatt, in detail ... From Justinian's Archive, March 1, 2001
Bar Talk • Friday, March 31, 2023 Bankrupt barristers and their tax ... Wayback Machine ... Barristers unpaid tax burden ... NSW Bar Association dithering and shifting the blame ... From Justinian's Archive March 6, 2001
Barristers tax, Deja Vu Deja Vu • Friday, March 24, 2023 Worm reviews Ian Callinan's searing spellbinder The Coroner's Conscience ... Love, torment and death ... A tragic femme fatale ... A spicy journalist ... A bishop ... A coroner ... Something for everyone ... From Justinian's Archive, December 3, 1999
Ian Callinan