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 >>
Normally Hunter Biden's tax and gun charges would be dealt with by way of civil penalties ... For Prez Biden everything changed once it was known conspiracy theorist Kash Patel would be running the FBI ... He is obsessed, dangerous and unhinged ... Trumped up charges would be the order of the day ... Hence the sweeping pardon from Dad ... Historian Heather Cox Richardson explains >>
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 ...
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Judges • Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Case management regime rolls out at ACT Supremes … Extra money and judge allocated to backlog "blitz" … This month judgment delivered in a case after 39 months cogitation … Exclusive table of long-tail reserved judgments
Neil Watt • Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Harrassment and bullying by lawyers ... It's time the big swinging dicks were pulled into line, so to speak ... Neil (Mr Ethics) Watt exposes the problem and outlines the solution ... Bully for him
Bullying, Professional ethics Around The Firms • Monday, February 27, 2012 Keddies, again … Self-regulation protects the independence of the legal profession and allows the most flagrant breaches of ethical standards to be regarded as acceptable … Tracing the Tariq overcharging case and how all misconduct complaints found their way to the dust bin … Charging another three-quarters of the amount on top of what is acceptable is not gross overcharging ... Victim presses for inquiry into OLSC
Keddies, Mohammed Tariq, Overcharging, Philip Scroope, Steve Mark Goings On ... • Thursday, February 23, 2012
Updated on Thursday, February 23, 2012 by
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UPDATE ... Nailing down questioning reptiles ... Painful extraction of information about overseas excursions by prez of the NSW Law Society ... Vacancies looming on the Tasmanian Supremes ... The Smage lives to fight another day as $1 billion Indonesian class action thrown out
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, February 20, 2012 European governments oppose US claim to impose liability for overseas wrongs of foreign corporations ... Legal professional privilege threatened at Gitmo ... Congress wants drones buzzing around US skies ... Is conspiracy a war crime? ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, files this report
City Desk • Monday, February 20, 2012 Lawyers Full-Employment Act revs-up as Rinehart rides to town … 11 Wentworth snaffles the Iron Lady's work … Five months of suppression orders secured by rosters of silks … Ferocious litigation ramped-up by overflowing coffers
Gina Rinehart, Litigation, Suppression orders, Trust deed Leverhulme • Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Snowball chase on main street ... Free speech a danger for football manager ... Top Totty beer off in Commons' bar ... Knife victim stitched-up over trauma of giving testimony against boyfriend ... Sligo council's bullying monitor ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Abu Qatada, English weather, Human rights, Lord Parmoor, Top Totty Abel Magwitch • Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Judicial style ... The genteel, pukkah approach of the UK Supreme Court or the Assyrian assaults of the High Court ... At least in Australia you get a sense of where to pitch an argument ... Please welcome Abel Magwitch to Justinian's expanding fold of analysts and commentators
Sir Terence O'Rort • Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Tony Tarr's long and bumpy ride through academe and business ... Gravitating from one ivory tower to another ... Bridging the gap between money and scholarship ... From the Queensland Law Society to a global recognition ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports on a remarkable career
Around The Firms • Friday, February 3, 2012
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Judge decides no reasonable person could think he was prejudiced against former Keddies' partners ... Stay also refused ... Contempt hearing against Keddies boys now set for February 16 ... Brigit Morris reporting from the NSW Supremes
Apprehended bias, Contempt of court, Keddies Bar Talk • Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Two Sydney barristers required to reveal their fees in overcharging case against Keddies … Allegations of multiple billing for the same work … Excessive charges and over-servicing
David Campbell, Keddies, Overcharging, Tim Meakes Goings On ... • Monday, January 30, 2012 Shake-out of former Keddies' partners at Slater & Gordon … ACT bar breaches suppression order
ACT bar, Keddies, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Sunday, January 29, 2012 In Hong Kong Percy Lo-Kit Chan watches on television the melee outside the Lobby restaurant on Australia Day and reflects on what happened when three students got close to the Vice Premier of the PRC ... Civil discourse also at a low ebb in the HKSAR
Australia Day, Julia Gillard Goings On ... • Friday, January 27, 2012 Tom Hughes to be profiled in detail and at length in new book by Canberra historian ... Keddies still ducking and weaving - application for judge to step aside ... Barristers ordered to reveal their billing in Hong Kong PI cases ... Smallbone boned by bar 'n' grill ... Ashton v Pratt - Madison flirts with an appeal
Pillsbury Flom • Thursday, January 26, 2012 Pillsbury Flom in Australia for his hols, where he picks up the latest on the Lloyd Rayney case, gives his thoughts about Julia Gillard and her forbearance of radio ranters and her hypocrisy on gay marriage ... Plus, the Viagra patent case
Alan Jones, Julia Gillard, Lloyd Rayney, Same-sex marriage, Viagra Around The Firms • Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Leading personal injury solicitor appointed to board of NSW LawCover ... Untested allegations of professional misconduct hang in the air ... APRA's fit and proper guidelines for directors of insurance companies ... Finding of "serious neglect" ... Implications for policyholders
Brydens, Fit & Proper, LawCover, Robert Bryden Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Monday, January 23, 2012 Year of the Dragon, a year of great charges ... Percy Chan files from Hong Kong ... Life in the SAR: great wealth alongside striking poverty ... Lower bunks at a premium ... Mainlanders reducing the locals to second class citizens ... Pollution ... Traffic ... Land prices ... Ai WeiWei and taxes ... FILTH
Tulkinghorn • Tuesday, January 17, 2012 "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... Looks like the Circumlocution Office has got hold of the Marfording Report
Access of Justice, Legal fees, Marfording Report, Reform Neil Watt • Monday, January 16, 2012 New national solicitors' conduct rules dilute traditional approach to lawyers giving evidence in court for their clients ... Rules that will lead solicitors down the garden path ... Ethical eclipse ... From Neil Watt at the ethics desk
Leverhulme • Saturday, January 14, 2012 Leverhulme on The Iron Lady ... Tales from the Court of Queen Margaret ... The Kilmuir Rules ... Sentencing of race killers ... Plymouth judge makes a prat of himself, with no help from Fowler ... London Calling
Denis Thatcher, Lord Kilmuir, Margaret Thatcher