Soapy Watch


New AG to protect judges from free speech attacks ... Silence on announcements should not detract from exciting policy initiatives ... Polly Peck reports
Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >>
Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >>
BAQ president announces real estate move from Inns of Court to accomodate expanded bar bureaucracy ... More >> Detailed considerations >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
"Most important of all, in addition, we have the World Cup and we have the Olympics. Can you imagine [if] I missed that four years? And now look what I have. I have everything - amazing the way things work out. God did that, I believe that too."
Donald Trump in a speech at Arlington National Cemetary, noting that he will be president for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ... May 26, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ...
Zeilgeist 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 High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
New AG to protect judges from free speech attacks ... Silence on announcements should not detract from exciting policy initiatives ... Polly Peck reports
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
Things can only get worse ... Courts in a muddle about technology ... Dame Heather Hallett on Australian subtlety ... Parliament Hall, Edinburgh ... Professional liability barrister authors recipes for Proper Puddings ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Failed application to remove Justice Kate McMillan from Victorian damages case against The Age ... Lengthy regurgitation of transcript ... Trying to get focus ... Failure to make notes ... Lack of judicial eye contact ... Misapplication of the word "garlic" ... Curt and non-embracing ... Alix Piatek reports
A rorters catalogue ... RIP "Sir" Arthur George ... Soapy George Brandis and his slippery expense claims ... Wedding business and a sense of entitlement ... New attorney general crippled at the start
Israel given unfiltered NSA data ... All phone calls in the US are "relevant to terrorism" ... Defence contractor successfully sues torture victims for costs ... NY designates city mosques as "terrorism enterprises" ... US Supremes in need of a code of conduct ... Nixon on judicial appointments ... Roger Fitch files from the town in the process of shutting down
Jocking for position in the O'Farrell government ... Gilded career ahead for former Freehills person Gabrielle Upton ... Three other women ministers looking wobbly ... Serious adjustment needed by Johnny Howard's old chum, Pru Goward ... Alex Mitchell reports
Clerkship offers came out Friday ... Firms use the interview process to bag their competitors ... Contraction sets the tone ... Recruitment numbers chopped in half ... Job Jockey reports
Ashurst Australia comes up against a fiesty anti-nuclear campaigner and her websites ... 75-year-old pensioner sticks to her guns, while Fairfax takes down offending article ... Dealing with lawyers' letters
Election policies have to get past the High Court ... The weakest or the strongest arm of government? ... Tulkinghorn explores the difference between legal reasons and real reasons
Election that takes us nowhere ... Legal aid only encourages the poor to be "extremely litigious" ... Removing government funded advice for "queue jumpers" ... Coalition seeking to shaft the Constitution ... Procrustes issues a pent-up moan
High-rise glamour for new chambers ... Looking at lawyers' productivity ... Inner sanctum for LegalSuper ... Ornaments of parliamentary democracy
Lib-Lab ... Your nutshell guide to law and justice policies ... Dreyfus and Brandis hammer and tongs at the "great legal debate" ... Snoresville with flourishes
Lawyers fees slashed ... Bills unpaid ... Client and former solicitors in dispute over money ... Solicitors who were sacked from defamation case having trouble getting their hands of their costs ... Client wants the money paid to him ... Trouble in libel land ... Defamatorium
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
Attorney General Holder promised the Russians that the US wouldn't torture Snowden, and they still wouldn't hand him over ... NSA's "network security agreements" with helpful telecoms ... Stacking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with Republicans ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, on the inner workings of a non-functioning democracy
John McGuigan and John Atkinson, former Baker Boys, in the frame at ICAC ... What was it that got these two top-notch lawyers into strife? ... Found by ICAC to be "corrupt" with Corporations Act and Crimes Act charges recommended ... "The shortest distance to a pot of money" proves to be a littered with potholes
Last minute desperation ... After the ICAC hearing concluded, lawyers for the baddies wheel out a barrow-load of issues ... ICAC investigation should have been run more like a trial ... Ipp squelches Hale and Littlemore ... Gratuitous complaints about counsel assisting dismissed
Defence pleadings of an exceptional quality in Queensland District Court case ... Notice of intention to defend ... Abuse of process ... The Vibe ... Defamation ... The works ... There should be more pleadings in this style
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