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Selection of new silks ... An odd arrangement that rewards and divides the bar ... The relative importance of popularity and outstanding achievement ... A fresh round of humiliation ... Ginger Snatch reflects
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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 ...
"I think it's madness to change it. If you walked into a McDonald's hamburger restaurant and they started serving you seafood, you'd be very confused if you were a customer."
Newington College old boy Peter Thomas arguing against the school admitting female students ... Reported in Guardian Australia, June 21, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ...
The election season ... The case for compulsory voting ... Pity the Brits, French and Americans where politicians have to "get out the vote" ... Nathan Twibill on the advantages of the "median voter" strategy ... Vote early, vote often ... 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 ...
Selection of new silks ... An odd arrangement that rewards and divides the bar ... The relative importance of popularity and outstanding achievement ... A fresh round of humiliation ... Ginger Snatch reflects
Red Mess in Rome ... HP apologises to president of NSW bar for "rash and immature" statements ... K & W Mallesons - the power of together with journalists ... Solicitor caught on ICAC tap in dastardly plot with mayor
NSW lawyers disciplinary register falls into disrepair ... Missing names ... Legal Services Commissioner says he doesn't know about disciplinary findings that are publicly available ... Hydra-headed regulatory regime dysfunctional
NSW bar more gender equal than its Yarraside counterpart ... Why is that so, when there are so many lovely sentiments about equality? ... VicBar actions on parental leave at odds with stated policy ... Gender correspondent Ginger Snatch reports
Updated on Friday, November 9, 2012 by
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Sydney and Melbourne bars go to the polls ... Same old candidates turn-up for re-election … Wall of men … Women fighting to be counted
UPDATE ... Moaning judges flee MONA family law dinner dance … Tussle for the top Supreme Court post in Van Diemen's Land … Putting a shine on SCs … Female barristers decaying less quickly than males … Pulp fiction's playthings
Exclusive ... Comments received from members on the NSW bar's draft strategic plan ... Groping for a view of the future ... Great struggles with solicitors ... Fee recovery strategies ... Commitment to diversity ... What do barristers have to offer? ... Marketing and more bang for bucks ... Creating an identity ... Better diets ... Access to legal information ... Massive work ahead for the bar association to become relevant
NSW bar looks for ways to stay bobbing in a turbulent sea ... Economic ideas to the fore in strategy plan ... Relevancy deprivation syndrome could be a factor ... Where are the bar's public voices?
Refreshments get out of hand at Roddy Meagher's wake ... Assaults in the bar common room ... Jackson Pollock artworks on display as guests fall about ... Grief fuelled by liquor
It's winter and the NSW bar 'n' grill gets out the knitting needles and balls of wool for a good old knitathon ... Brian Tamberlin, the O'Barrell government's power man, will provide a welcome boost to the Lawyers Full-Employment Act ... Solicitors who forge documents - it's worth the punt
Sir Gerry Brennan at centre of high-rise dog fight ... Flare-up at bench v bar dinner in Sydney ... Corrigan accuses union lawyers of "conniving" to select patsy judge ... Turf warfare over the right to publicity ... Horror stories from Cowderyland ... June 8, 2007
The problem of enforced conviviality at the NSW bar ... Judge Judy once again finds she’s not biased against Stephen Archer ... Martin Bryant's solicitor missing in action ... Recent sightings of legal luminaries ... Former CJ in cat fight ... From Justinian's archive, May 12, 2006
It's 1981 and the NSW bar's ethics committee has dismissed suggestions from Athol Moffitt that two Melbourne barristers weren't plying their trade in accordance with the high standards of the Sydney bar ... Suggestions that the trial was protracted by irrelevancies and the use of extreme language - thrown out by the ethics inspectors ... Crushing blow for Court of Criminal Appeal ... From Justinian's Déjà Vu department
Roderick Pitt Meagher has taken over the leadership of the NSW bar at a crucial time in its history ... Here Justinian gets up close to the man at the helm ... "Idiots" at the Law Reform Commission trying to meddle in bar's affairs ... Finding it hard to escape the Dark Ages ... Meagher's first ever interview ... Justinian, February 1980
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