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 ...
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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 Goings On ... • Friday, August 15, 2014 Solo bows ceremony grips Molonglo Supremes ... Press releases flowing from the QE11 Cauldron ... Slater & Gordon minting it as acquisitions pile up
City Desk • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Dyson Heydon, a clever troglodyte, handed the spotlight by the Addams family ... Extraordinary powers to explore anything and anyone ... Recalling some of Dyse's finest historical and literary flourishes
Goings On ... • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Dyson Heydon's top 10 books of the nineteenth century … From Memoires d'Outre Tombe to The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian … Dyse's faves from a golden time
Dyson Heydon, Rodney Cavalier Goings On ... • Friday, February 1, 2013 New-Old life for Dyse ... Allens' former senior partner's breast-taking moment ... The ineffectiveness of suppression orders in the internet age ... Private equity fund gobbles Lawyers Fortnightly ... Torturous 14 year grind by the SA Bureau de Spank
Procrustes • Thursday, January 24, 2013 A post-Dysian world ... Justice Peter Young shows the way ... Veil piercing ... The slipperiness of legislative intention ... "Purpose" is the empty vessel into which judges can pour their own meaning ... Procrustes takes his pills
Goings On ... • Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Shades of a torrid time in Townsville ... Media inquiries about Dyse ... Competition for Kirbs ... Slater & Gordon's referral fees ... How Queensland dropped out of the national profession reforms
Judges • Sunday, November 11, 2012 Combative words ... Canberra beak objects to florid phrases from Dyson Heydon ... Debasing respect for the judicial process ... Lessons in language
Dyson Heydon, High Court, Plain Packaging case Procrustes • Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Dyson Heydon weaves his magic in two of the latest decisions from on High ... Patel and Zentai ... Plus, Proscrustes delves into his clipping file to fish out more on the cosy relationship between Pel-Air and the government ... History of crashing aeroplanes
Dyson Heydon, Four Corners, High Court, Pel-Air Procrustes • Friday, June 29, 2012 How far ahead can the government lock-in High Court appointments? ... Why is Soapy Brandis so unbearably smug? ... How do we solve the problem of refugee boats? ... Procrustes asks ... And answers
Dyson Heydon, George Brandis, Refugees Court in the Act • Wednesday, June 6, 2012 The Rule of Law Institute had been rooting for upholding the NSW Court of Appeal's decision in the James Hardie directors' case ... Fortunately, the High Court had better ideas about the rule of law ... Strange connections ... Dyse Heydon's comprehensive skewering
Dyson Heydon, High Court, Rule of Law Institute Abel Magwitch • Tuesday, May 29, 2012 Change is in the air ... Abel Magwitch contemplates the forthcoming reconfiguration of the High Court ... A plea that the NSW and Victorian bars not be overlooked ... Doctrinal questions in play just as Gummow and Heydon are needed
Bill Gummow, Dyson Heydon, High Court, Judicial selection Procrustes • Friday, November 18, 2011 High Court judges love the adornment of historical learning ... Dyse leads the way ... History-laden scornful asides ... Even an assault on the Vic AG for daring to introduce his human rights legislation ... Procrustes delves into the separation of criticisms
Dyson Heydon, High Court Judges • Friday, July 8, 2011 St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney chocker with mourners at Roddy Meagher's funeral mass ... Dyce raced through the eulogy, but everything else took a very long time ... I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ... Oh Lord don't let me be misunderstood ... Notes from the Pelladium
Dyson Heydon, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Friday, February 13, 2004 It's Déjà Vu all over again ... Justinian discovers the full text of Dyson Heydon’s famous Quadrant speech ... Juiciest parts chopped from the published version ... Here are the bits where Dyce pokes his tongue out at his least favourite judges ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
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