Sia in the counting house ... Damn statistics ... Federal Court mandarins inability to count ... Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services ... Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates ... Transparency ... From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake ... 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 >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
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 >>
Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... 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 >>
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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 • Sunday, December 16, 2012 The NSW Cabinet meets on Monday (Dec. 17) and is likely to approve Margaret Beazley's appointment as President of the Court of Appeal ... It's understood that Tom Bathurst had also been toying with other names
Margaret Beazley, Tom Bathurst Judges • Saturday, December 15, 2012 Former Supremo Anthony Whealy had lunch with The Sydney Morning Herald and on the record said he has doubts about Keli Lane's murder conviction … Appeal pending … One rule for Margaret Cunneen … Another for a retired judge
Anthony Whealy, Keli Lane, Margaret Cunneen Judges • Wednesday, December 12, 2012 UPDATE ... Wagga practitioners grizzle about Dizzo circuit judge ... Letter of complaint sent to Reg Blanch at head office ... Listings and hearing dates rejigged unceremoniously ... Practitioners fed-up ... Blanch's dismissive reply
Reg Blanch, Wagga Wagga District Court Around The Firms • Monday, December 10, 2012 Ongoing struggle between Clayton Utz and Christopher Dale … Gathering of ghosts … McCabe case, Ebner case, the Korean inheritance saga … Sleuths and leaks … Did Allan Myers give Dale advice? … Can he act for Clayton Utz against Dale?
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Leverhulme • Saturday, December 8, 2012 Lord Justice Leveson transported to Australia ... New offensive word - "underpinning" ... Lord Chancellor biffs judge ... Judge biffs prosecutor ... Name game for latest royal mouth to feed ... Death of Jacintha Saldanha - "What can you expect from Orstralians?" ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Bar Talk • Wednesday, December 5, 2012 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
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Shock: the rich prefer Obama ... Democrats outvoted Republicans, but state gerrymanders keep GOP in control of the House ... Recomposition of the ultra-orthodox DC Circuit ... Rumsfeld gets torture immunity ... Native American compensation claims settled after 16-year class action ... New policy for drone assassinations ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Around The Firms • Friday, November 30, 2012 Lawyers' threatening letters ... Heavy handed attempts to get the media or campaigning activists to back-off ... Spectre of defamation proceedings and aggravated damages ... Huffing and puffing that goes nowhere
Ashurst, Colin Biggers & Paislet, Defamation, Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Robert Todd Procrustes • Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Once a Jolly Bagman's happy remembrance of Australian politics ... James Hardie and how "separation" replaced the "corporate veil" ... A warning: be suspicious of people, like Scott Morrison, who proclaim themselves to be Christians ... Procrustes' end-of-year bleeding-heart special
Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Update ... New mega firm likely to give the bar a run for its money ... Herbert Smith Freehills - taking advocacy in-house ... New design and image based around eyesight and perception
Advocacy, CPD training, Herbert Smith Freehills Bar Talk • Monday, November 26, 2012 Queensland bar 'n' grill gets new CEO after centuries of rule by Dan O'Connor ... Selection system raises the question - who does run the bar? ... Tectonic shifts as foreigners invade the turf ... Re-minting of QCs as part of new marketing push
City Desk • Wednesday, November 21, 2012 The Map of Tasmania ... Family Court cases set to music ... Pims for the Duchess ... His Excellency, the camera assistant
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
City Desk • Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Updated on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by
Justinian
Perpetrators of beastly college rituals protected by parents and fellows ... Barristers charge in as white knights for unruly students ... Due process for privileged ragbags ... To hell with the victims ... The outside world kept out
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 Bar Talk • Friday, November 9, 2012
Updated on Monday, November 19, 2012 by
Justinian
The ins and outs of the NSW bar council ballot ... Thumbs down for a few old stayers ... Inner sanctum remains solid
Bar council elections Bar Talk • Thursday, November 8, 2012
Updated on Friday, November 9, 2012 by
Justinian
Sydney and Melbourne bars go to the polls ... Same old candidates turn-up for re-election … Wall of men … Women fighting to be counted
City Desk • Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Tribunal justice ... Special skills needed for new Bureau de Spank in NSW ... People who have been spanked are ideally placed to spank others ... A profusion of sore bottoms ... NCAT and the great tribunal aggregation ... Steering committee to be steered by reference group
Disciplinary tribunals, NCAT Tulkinghorn • Monday, November 5, 2012 Tulkinghorn on competing civil litigation regimes ... The obstacle course regime involves truth-obscuring complexity and requires lots of money ... The shallow pockets version offers tribunals that seek to skip complexity ... The more obstacles, the more lawyers are "worth"
Complexity, Litigation