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Entries in Judges (62)

Tuesday
Apr302024

Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle

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

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Monday
Mar252024

The plague of amnesia

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 

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Thursday
Dec042014

Stinging Nettle among the thistles

Geoffrey Nettle, hero of Yarraside, goes to the High Court ... Government turns tame ... Soapy's soft spot ... Big chance for Marty Pakula ... Rustling through the archives ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports 

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Wednesday
Nov262014

Bathurst CJ - questions and answers

Interview with NSW chief justice Tom Bathurst ... A glass of water for the shock jocks ... CJ's thoughts about QCs and SCs, a tort for serious invasions of privacy, a Bill of Rights and electronic courts ... Addressing the costs of litigation ... Judicial diversity ... Confidence in the judiciary 

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Friday
Nov212014

Carmody watch

Brisbane field agents keep an eye on the work of the learned Chief Justice of Queensland ... Knock About's sentencing error ... Blunders in contract land ... No complaints from lawyers, who are kept furiously busy with stay applications 

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Monday
Jul282014

News from the QE11 Cauldron

Knock About running onto the paddock ... Muir JA sends critical missive to Nudgee Old Boys ... CJ out of his league with civil work, now fresh blunder comes to light on sentencing ... Newman and the Conveyancer General try and mend fences with judges and lawyers ... Knock About on the speech circuit 

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Tuesday
Jul082014

Step outside 

Appointment of CLP aligned top-end magistrate ... Furious row over appointment at NT estimates committee ... Attorney General questioned about his role in the selection of a friend and benefactor ... Water, water (not everywhere) ... Tales from the Top End with Buffalo Bruce 

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Sunday
Jun222014

Carmody of Errors

Updated on Monday, June 23, 2014 by Registered CommenterJustinian

The politicisation of the Chief Justice ... Divisions deepen ... Lord Eldon's straddle ... Fresh round-up of The Carmody Capers ... From our Brisbane field agents 

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Tuesday
Jun172014

Carmody update

Collection of gems from Timbo Carmody, CJ-in-Waiting ... Latter-day Albert Piddington? ... Carmody's best lines ... Brief history of the new CJ's long forgotten low points ... NSW barristers say politicalisation of Queensland appointments taints the QC selection system  

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Thursday
Jun122014

Timbo on top

Tim Carmody - Queensland's top dog of justice ... Fast track to chief justiceship ... Government anoints favourite cheer leader ... Triumph of the toadies ... Pineapple Pol reports 

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Tuesday
Jun102014

Carmody rising

The stage is set for Queensland government's favoured bovver boy of the bench to be legged-up to CJ ... Deep soundings with the bar and QLS ... "No criticism" undertakings have been extracted by the Conveyancer General ... Cossack says Tim Carmody is unsuitable to lead the judiciary ... Bar as good as endorses chief magistrate for CJ 

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Thursday
Apr032014

Moving legal infallibility down the chain

Further destabilisation and corrosion proposed for Queensland court system ... Chief Magistrate wants to limit appeals from his court ... Submission to parliamentary committee to amend the Justices Act ... Saving money ... "Freeing-up" the District Court

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Wednesday
Mar122014

Stacking the deck 

Payback time in Queensland ... Attorney General's scheme to get criminal appeal judges of the right flavour ... Splitting the Court of Appeal ... Sidelining Margaret McMurdo ... Nothing very subtle here 

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Thursday
Feb272014

Line-up for new CJ of Queensland 

Names, form and potential ... Who's in contention for the chief's job ... Age and weight a factor ... Farewell Daphnis - it was great fun 

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Monday
Jan272014

Recusal perusal

Defamatorium ... Bias ... An abundance of applications for female defamation judges to recuse themselves ... Relatively few male judges face the same issue ... Why is this so? 

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Monday
Dec022013

NSW judges living on crusts and dripping

Premier Barry O'Farrell disallows 2.5 percent pay rise for judges and magistrates ... NSW government wants judges to pay for superannuation increases ... State-federal judge pay relativity at risk ... Judges as "employees" of the state ... Paul Karp reports 

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Tuesday
Nov052013

Pineapple Pol

Updated on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Registered CommenterJustinian

Vroom, Vroom ... Qld magistrates go on red alert for bikie menace ... Court of Appeal to decide on separation of powers ... Or will appeal judges do "what the community wants"? 

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Sunday
Nov032013

Vic Supremes bungy jump experiment

Out of the closet ... Vic Supremes showing its face to the world ... NSW CJ skeptical about social media ... Different approaches to handling spreading the rule-of-law message ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Thursday
Oct102013

Pride and Prejudice

Failed application to remove Justice Kate McMillan from Victorian damages case against The Age ... Lengthy regurgitation of transcript ... Trying to get focus ... Failure to make notes ... Lack of judicial eye contact ... Misapplication of the word "garlic" ... Curt and non-embracing ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Tuesday
Apr302013

Gentlemen, please

Touchy war of words between the upper and lower stratas of the federal judiciary ... Raphael v Perram; Perram v Raphael ... It’s a matter of tone ... Alix Piatek reports

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