Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >>
London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >>
Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
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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 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 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 Goings On ... • Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Solicitors struck down in the Defamation Court ... Who's going to replace Reg Blanch at the NSW Dizzo? ... Garry Neilson benched after pressure from AG ... Knock About Carmody seeking speech-writing skills ... Daphnis lost west of Winton
So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004
Bail, David Levine, Defamatorium, John Marsden, Paul de Jersey