Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >>
My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >>
Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
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 Court in the Act • Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Voyager victims ... Overcharging lawyer's fee agreement upheld ... Legal struggle with receiver and Legal Practice Board chews up $1.5 million in fees ... Receivership extended ... Appeals pending
Bar Talk • Sunday, July 31, 2011 New set of Darwin chambers represents "cessation of hostilities" ... Departures from William Forster Chambers ... Buffalo Bruce, our field agent in the Top End, reports that there's been a seismic shift at the Darwin bar
Stephen Keim • Friday, July 29, 2011 Taking the Fifth ... The slip-sliding principles that the US Supremes have applied to the politics of law enforcement ... Justice Anthony Kennedy breaks the deadlock on Miranda warnings, custody and interrogation of a 13-year old ... Stephen Keim reports
Fifth Amendment, Miranda Court in the Act • Monday, July 25, 2011
Updated on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by
Justinian
Lawyers are returning to bite the Murdochs on their posteriors ... James Murdoch's pants are on fire ... Commons committee wants an explanation (a better one this time) ... Lawyers are off the leash
James Murdoch, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch Friday, July 22, 2011 ACT bar wants gossiping and rumour mongering about appointments to be stamped-out ... Undesirable for members to speculate about things ... It's bad for business
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 19, 2011 News Ltd explains its policies on entrapment, surveillance and private investigators ... Instructive stuff ... The media world lurches off its axis as Rupert & Co are unable to manage the flood of arrests, resignations and on-going investigations .. Late night viewing as a Commons committee presses for answers
Ethics, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch Tulkinghorn • Friday, July 15, 2011 Lawyers swarm all over and colonise areas of non-law ... Once an area has been lawyerised there is no turning back ... The hijacking of politics by the courts ... Women judges more compassionate than men in asylum cases? ... Tulkinghorn examines the creation of immigration "law"
Judges • Thursday, July 14, 2011 Every unhappy court is unhappy in its own way ... ACT government and Supreme Court in long-running stand off ... Delays and despair ... No rush by CJ to welcome new appointment
ACT Supreme Court Goings On ... • Thursday, July 14, 2011 Refreshments get out of hand at Roddy Meagher's wake ... Assaults in the bar common room ... Jackson Pollock artworks on display as guests fall about ... Grief fuelled by liquor
Assault, NSW Bar Association, Roddy Meagher