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 ...
Justinian's archive
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, September 15, 2011 Female liberation Chinese style ... PRC Supremes say that if a wife brings nothing to a marriage, she gets nothing on the split-up ... As property prices soar, divorce booms ... Millions of young men with no home and no woman ... Trouble brewing ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Family law, Mallett v Mallet Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, September 15, 2011 China's new "value" system ... Self-interest reigns ... The government says aiding people in distress could cause problems ... Stand back, don't interfere ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong
Civil Liability Act NSW Goings On ... • Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Non-lawyer abuses barrister's wig at Parramatta - bar draws up emergency plans ... Three years later, and still no date for Keddie disciplinary hearing ... Hughes and Rofe - senior silks sell their chambers ... Law firms doing pro bono refugee work prefer to fly under the radar
David Rofe, OLSC, PILCH, Russell Keddie, Tom Hughes, Wigs City Desk • Thursday, September 8, 2011 News from the bush capital ... ACT Law Society faces unprecedented vigorous three way presidential contest ... Justice Refshauge delivers 30-months reserved damages judgment after nudge from Justinian ... Latest from the Molonglo
Around The Firms • Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Exhibits in Styles v Clayton Utz released for publication by the NSW Supreme Court ... Pin-up boy Luis Izzo ... Allegation pix used to taunt and victimise plaintiff ... Life at big law
Bridgette Styles City Desk • Tuesday, September 6, 2011 The NSW Crime Commission in post-Standen mode ... Reviews, inquiries and (hidden) reports ... What next? ... Who can get a grip on the crime-busting outfit?
Polly Peck • Friday, September 2, 2011 It was Philip Ruddock's 2001 Tampa amendment to the Migration Act that opened the way for the High Court's decision on the Malaysia refugee swap deal ... Ironic isn't it? ... Gillard unfairly shafts French CJ ... The former Liberal Immigration Minister can now wear his Amnesty badge with pride ... Marcus Priest reports
High Court, Migration Act, Refugees Stephen Keim • Friday, September 2, 2011 Ten years after 9-11 ... Congressional resolution allows US courts to refuse habeas and to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge ... No evidence of wrongdoing required ... Stephen Keim's column
Law of war Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Large law firms prime candidates for deregulation ... The big corporate question: stay in-house or go external? ... Getting millions of dollars of legal work done for $150,000 ... Tulkinghorn thinks large law firms are less ethical than small ones
Law firms, Professional ethics Around The Firms • Tuesday, August 30, 2011 DPP Tim Ellis will have to shoulder his portion of a $1 million damages award by the Van Diemen's Land full court ... Grossly expensive spat with former client of Clarke & Gee ... Teeth gnashed across the Map of Tasmania
Court in the Act • Friday, August 26, 2011 Vic Appeals throws Michael Brereton a lifeline ... Celebrity lawyer did not owe fiduciary duties to clients who lost money in his retirement village scheme ... No beneficial interest in money paid to solicitor ... No misappropriation involved with funds that vanished ... Legal fairy dust
Polly Peck • Friday, August 26, 2011 While the Commonwealth's "genuine steps" pre-litigation requirements had a healthy birth at the beginning of the month, NSW's "reasonable steps" were strangled before they drew breath ... NSW government calls sniffer dog off the DPP's patch ... Last days of lump-sum cash for victims of crime
ADR, Greg Smith Hellfire Club • Monday, August 22, 2011 Misfortunes in the pubs and hospitality caper ... Solicitor tossed off the jam roll ... No tax returns for 21 years ... Law Society and Legal Services Commissioner rapped for going soft on misconduct of prominent liquor licensing guru
Hellfire Club • Monday, August 22, 2011 Solicitor's name on NSW disciplinary register as a result of an unexplained error ... Damage to reputation ... Legal Services Commissioner dismisses complaint against himself ... ADT discovers it has no jurisdiction to restore suspended practising certificates that have run out of time ... Latest trauma from the Bureau de Spank
Bar Talk • Friday, August 12, 2011 Here we go again ... A fresh/old batch of NSW applicants for the silk robe ... Tragedy awaits ... 96 in contention ... Salon de refusés beckons
Silk selection Leverhulme • Friday, August 12, 2011 Leverhulme on the riots and looting in England ... Why can't people bring up their kiddies properly? ... "Naughty" no longer in the vocabulary ... Prisons so full no one can get in
Bringing up kiddies, Law 'n' order Barry Lane • Tuesday, August 9, 2011 What must jurors think when they discover the truth after the event? ... Writing on the wall for juries when accused prefer judges alone ... Systematic subversion of the system ... Barry Lane call attention to the truth issue
Court in the Act • Monday, August 8, 2011 Justice David Yates overturns federal government scheme to block access to justice ... He finds there is plenty of discretion for Federal Court registrars to waive filing fees for impecunious immigration detainees seeking judicial review ... Proceedings can be commenced without the fee ... Rachelle De Jager reports
Federal Court, Immigration detention Goings On ... • Friday, August 5, 2011 DPP locks his door ... Attorney General talks religion and the law ... New branding for barrister's top notch marmalade ... Revolving door for old newspaper lawyer ... The Bureau de Shoot ... Just how squeaky clean is News Ltd? ... Tony Meagher not strong on Basten JA's favourite subject
Court in the Act • Wednesday, August 3, 2011 ACT damages verdict at least two-and-a-half years overdue ... No response from Canberra bar or Supremes to counsel's multiple notices under delayed judgment protocol ... Writ of mandamus heading to the High Court
ACT Supreme Court, Delays