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 >>
An Australian Abroad ... An essay with pictures … Egypt and the Grand Museum … No end to the antiquities … Down the Nile on a dahabiya … Tombs and temples … Paris and industrial-scale tourism … The Yarts & Kulture ... 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Justinian's archive
Bar Talk • Friday, March 31, 2023 Bankrupt barristers and their tax ... Wayback Machine ... Barristers unpaid tax burden ... NSW Bar Association dithering and shifting the blame ... From Justinian's Archive March 6, 2001
Barristers tax, Deja Vu Deja Vu • Friday, March 24, 2023 Worm reviews Ian Callinan's searing spellbinder The Coroner's Conscience ... Love, torment and death ... A tragic femme fatale ... A spicy journalist ... A bishop ... A coroner ... Something for everyone ... From Justinian's Archive, December 3, 1999
Ian Callinan Deja Vu • Friday, March 17, 2023 Worm reviews an alarming ABC documentary on Alec and Lorraine Shand's married life ... The top end silk looking for affaction and support ... Mrs Shand should stop complaining ... Making a mess of priorities ... Counselling does wonders ... Or does it? ... From Justinian's Archive, October 2000
Alec Shand Deja Vu • Thursday, March 9, 2023 Remembering John Marsden's defamation case against Channel Seven ... Claim that the former president of the NSW Law Society had sex with under-age boys ... Inviting journalists to reveal identity of witness whose name had been suppressed ... From Justinian's Archive, April 20, 2000
Contempt, Defamatorium, John Marsden Around The Firms • Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Law shop's misadventures in the Solomons ... Gold digging ... Proceedings against mining company goes awry ... Lawyer rides off on his Harley ... Forgotten history ... From Justinian's Archive, September 3, 2002
Slater & Gordon Deja Vu • Friday, December 16, 2022 Book review ... Portraits on Yellow Paper by P.R. Meagher and Simon Fieldhouse reviewed by Michael Kirby ... The reviewer sprinkles caustic comments about former appeal justice's character assassinations ... From the archives ... April 7, 2004
Michael Kirby, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Did DPP Nick Cowdery mislead the attorney general? ... Prisoner whose conviction had been quashed seeks ex gratia payment ... Opposed by the DPP ... After more than eight years the NSW Court of Appeal decides, sort of ... Molomby vanquished ... From Justinian's Archive ... December 4, 2003
Deja Vu • Thursday, November 24, 2022 Contempt verdict over Plain English outburst ... Ruddster's "P" for the High Court ... Activist hack's dire warning on judicial appointments ... The living' is easy for Tubby Callinan ... Toad Hall comes to Mallesons ... Adding up the bills in the big, fat Channel Seven litigation ... Theodora reports ... From Justinian's Archive, January 16, 2008
Theodora • Friday, August 26, 2022 From June 2003, a reprise of Theodora's notebook ... Wild predictions on viceroy appointment ... Michael Kirby's keeps his money to himself ... Media chillers on the bench ... Federal Court tiff ... Victoria's Labor government on silken baubles ... Travel expenses for High Court judges at conferenceville ... Mary Gaudron's slow clock
Bar Talk • Wednesday, July 20, 2022 The John Cummins tax saga ... JC, QC, AJC ... Failure to lodge tax returns for 40 years ... Estranged wife ordered to send half the proceeds of the sale of Hunters Hill home to the bankruptcy trustee ... Mary Cummins catering business escapes the trustee's clutches ... From Justinian's archive, October 1, 2002
Goings on ... What was life like in 2000 ... Theodora ... Déjà Vu ... From Justinian's archive, December 15, 2000 ... John Marsden ... SCs in Victoria ... NT's silk selection process ... Self regulation is not the same as regulation ... Corrs blimey ... Harts & Flowers
Deja Vu • Thursday, May 26, 2022 Slices from Justinian's past ... There's an eerie familiarity to old news ... Sharing tidings from the hard copy era ... From Justinian's archive ... Stories from March 1988 and December 1994
NSW politics, Stuart Littlemore Deja Vu • Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Alec Shand v Jackson McDonald ... Excessive and unreasonable fees ... Law firm refuses to cough-up for Laurie Connell defence ... Charging for time not worked ... Unprepared ... Scandalous, even for a second-hand car dealer ... Gouging the rich ... Stephen Archer on hand ... From Justinian's archive, September 1999
Barristers' fees The Map • Tuesday, June 16, 2020 City Desk ... Silken art critic floored … Restraint of Dr Scutt fades … BYO at The Tasmanian Club …Well done Wayne ... Entire family escapes public hanging ... From Justinian's Archive, April 30, 2003
Map of Tasmania Friday, May 10, 2019 Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Author Bri Lee's book Eggshell Skull scoops up another prize - this time at the Australian Book Industry Awards ... A story of childhood sexual assault ... While the book continues to collect awards, the author's view about how natural justice ought to work should be read with caution ... Lawyer Joanna Jenkins' critique
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Enjoying a Slice of Samoa ... Fees burnt in Cauldron blaze ... "Don't hesitate - litigate" ... More prosecutors take to the bench
Monday, November 28, 2016 Launch of Stephen Walmsley's book The Trials of Justice Murphy ... Legal and political history ... Mixed crowd from the law, journalism and literature receive David Marr's speech in frosty silence ... Despite the jury verdict, the question remains, why did Lionel do it? ... Marr's launch speech, unexpurgated
Saturday, November 5, 2016 Barrister wants his name and critical paragraphs removed from FCC judgment ... Donors' Day ... Application for suppression of the juicy bits ... Sperm donor parenting dispute ... Naaman Zhou reports