Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >>
Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ...
Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >>
Complaint by NSW DPP about the conduct of Judge Peter Whitford DCJ ... Findings by the NSW Judicial Commission in full ... Falling short of the standards required of a judicial officer ... More >>
London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >>
Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ...
A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ...
Justinian's archive
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 Deja Vu • Friday, March 17, 2023 Worm reviews an alarming ABC documentary on Alec and Lorraine Shand's married life ... The top end silk looking for affaction and support ... Mrs Shand should stop complaining ... Making a mess of priorities ... Counselling does wonders ... Or does it? ... From Justinian's Archive, October 2000
Alec Shand Deja Vu • Thursday, March 9, 2023 Remembering John Marsden's defamation case against Channel Seven ... Claim that the former president of the NSW Law Society had sex with under-age boys ... Inviting journalists to reveal identity of witness whose name had been suppressed ... From Justinian's Archive, April 20, 2000
Contempt, Defamatorium, John Marsden Around The Firms • Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Law shop's misadventures in the Solomons ... Gold digging ... Proceedings against mining company goes awry ... Lawyer rides off on his Harley ... Forgotten history ... From Justinian's Archive, September 3, 2002
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