Judicial shockers ... The justice business ... Appeal admonitions ... Sore bottoms for those lower down the chain of command ... Nationwide lapses ... Perfection proves elusive ... Latest from Ginger Snatch ... Read more ...
On the defensive ... Exclusive … The zone of hurt feelings … A delicate flower on the Coalition’s macho frontbench … Linda’s Last Chance at the Wild West Saloon … Salving the pain by rehashing ancient history … Uncovering the cover-up ... Read on ...
It's too late for the thylacine ... Procrustes closely analyses recent Justinian reports ... The Ippster and Stella Liebeck ... Tort law reform that went beyond the Pale ... In Tassie, no one is allowed to speak for the forests ... Standing up against State rule of the trees ... Where's Syd Shea when you need him? ... Read more ...
Courtroom capers ... Federal Court's digital hiccups ... Principal Registrar in home run ... Pronunciation requirements for names and pre-nominate ... Elocution audit ... Common law shuffle in New South Wales ... Vicki Mole reports ... Read more ...
Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ...
The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Tom Hughes KC ... Choice cuts from Ian Hancock's biography of Tom Hughes, A Cab on the Rank ... A painful move from 11 Selborne ... Skyrocketing fees ... Great cases ... Lionel Murphy - "not an easy client" ... Diary observations of judges, barristers and bar etiquette ... From Justinian's Archive, August 11, 2016 ... Read more ...
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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 Tulkinghorn • Friday, February 8, 2013 Trial process trumps the search for truth ... Jurors promise to give a true verdict ... Lawyers and judges don't have to make promises about the "truth" ... The Theodora Dallas case and online research by jurors ... The confines of the adversarial criminal justice system ... Tulkinghorn opines
Adversarial system, Contempt, Juries, Jury research