Spotlight on McClintock ... Former defamation silk takes the podium ... Speech and fielding questions in clubland ... Jabs at enemies ... Why fewer punters are suing ... Cross-examining journalists ... Fun cases ... When not to sue ... From Ginger Snatch at lunch ... Read more >>
A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ...
Bird on the wing ... Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP ... Read more >>
Sammy Alito, the ethically void US Supreme Court judge who buried Roe v Wade, chatted with Trump just as the prez-elect applied for the court to stop his scheduled sentencing in the Stormy hush money case ... Nothing improper, of course ... More >>
Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0 ... Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct ... Read more >>
The great interceptor ... Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments ... Read more ...
Litigation's artful delays ... From Justinian's archive ... April 22, 2014 ... Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case ... Read more ...
Justinian's archive
Tulkinghorn • Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case
Judges • Tuesday, December 18, 2012 ACT barristers complains about Justice Refshauge ... Reserved judgments piling-up ... Canberra practitioners livid at the delays ... Replacement CJ in contention ... Massive amount of weekend typing and RSI?
Judges • Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Case management regime rolls out at ACT Supremes … Extra money and judge allocated to backlog "blitz" … This month judgment delivered in a case after 39 months cogitation … Exclusive table of long-tail reserved judgments
Court in the Act • Wednesday, August 3, 2011 ACT damages verdict at least two-and-a-half years overdue ... No response from Canberra bar or Supremes to counsel's multiple notices under delayed judgment protocol ... Writ of mandamus heading to the High Court
ACT Supreme Court, Delays Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 24, 2010 There is more litigant satisfaction in Baden-Württemberg than in New South Wales ... Cases are conducted more quickly and at less cost ... The Marfording report on civil litigation picks-up where the ALRC failed to take off ... Tulkinghorn reports