Judicial shockers ... Latest from the trouble prone Queensland branch of the Federales ... Administrative law upsets ... Sandy Street overturned ... On the level in Canberra ... Missing aged care accountant ... Law shop managing director skewered ... Ginger Snatch reports from courtrooms around the nation ... Read more >>
Polly gets a cracker ... The Parrot falls from his bully pulpit … Performances … The end of the Wharf Revue … Bruce McClintock on stage at The Onion Club … Freaks on the loose in Washington ... Read on ...
It's Hitlerish ... Reelection of a charlatan ... Republicans take popular vote for the first time in 20 years ... Amnesia ... Trashing a democracy ... Trump and his team of troubled men ... Mainstream media wilts in the eye of the storm ... Depravity, greed and revenge are the new normal ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >>
The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Frosty Tom Hughes ... 1923-2024 ... More >>
A trial for France ... French teacher beheaded after showing caricatures of Mohammed to the class ... Young student's false claim ends in tragedy ... Misinformation takes off on social media ... Media storm ... Religion infiltrates public life ... Trials unfold ... Hugh Vuillier reports ... 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 ...
Rosenblum v Foreman ... From Justinian's archive ... March 1995 ... When Rupert Rosenblum went to court over a missing house ... Memories of Carol Foreman and her backdated document ... Rocking the foundations of the admin of justice ... Read more ...
Justinian's archive
City Desk • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Ethics committee purged by incoming Law Soc prez ... New guidelines on cloud computing and outsourcing not adopted ... Distressed email
Cloud computing, Ethics, Law Society NSW, Outsourcing Neil Watt • Wednesday, December 7, 2011 The new conduct rules for solicitors appear to be more notional than national ... Large Law Firm Group sets the tone ... It's all about what we can get away with ... The "right thing to do" went missing in action ... Neil Watt, who sat on the LCA's ethics committee, experienced a dashing of expectations
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 19, 2011 News Ltd explains its policies on entrapment, surveillance and private investigators ... Instructive stuff ... The media world lurches off its axis as Rupert & Co are unable to manage the flood of arrests, resignations and on-going investigations .. Late night viewing as a Commons committee presses for answers
Ethics, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch Around The Firms • Monday, May 9, 2011 Negotiations have resulted in minor revisions to the proposed Solicitors Conduct Rules ... At least three law societies found the LCA's original "ethical" rules objectionable ... Large law firms wag the dog
Ethics, Law Council of Australia Tulkinghorn • Saturday, April 23, 2011 An over abundance of lawyers does not reduce fat cats' fees ... Anti-competitive rules disguised as ethical principles ... Why are conditional fees banned in criminal cases? ... They're not entirely ... Lionel Murphy and Freehills ... Tulkinghorn explores
Conditional fees, Ethics, No win no pay Tulkinghorn • Monday, December 27, 2010 Economics and criminal defence lawyering ... The creation of a GETGO system ... Ethical rules and the twiddly bits ... Prosecutors are meant to stand still, while the other side does all the shooting ... How do I know whether I am guilty or not until I have seen the evidence? (Irish joke)
Criminal defence, Disclosure of evidence, Ethics Around The Firms • Friday, December 10, 2010 The independent legal profession at work ... Large law firms push through flawed conduct rules for solicitors ... Special provisions for conflicts of interest and referral fees ... "Informed consent" downgraded
Conduct Rules, Ethics