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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Tulkinghorn • Saturday, April 23, 2011 An over abundance of lawyers does not reduce fat cats' fees ... Anti-competitive rules disguised as ethical principles ... Why are conditional fees banned in criminal cases? ... They're not entirely ... Lionel Murphy and Freehills ... Tulkinghorn explores
Conditional fees, Ethics, No win no pay Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, April 21, 2011 Logjammed judicial vacancies gives the Chamber of Commerce a field day ... Bradley Manning's incarceration ... Nine year Guantanamo internments roll on without a remedy ... Federal Court indictments handed back to the Pentagon ... The anarchy of the Tea Party ... Our Man in Washington reports
Bradley Manning, Tea Party, US Supreme Court Goings On ... • Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Nanny state distress at The Australian ... Defence Association on the warpath ... Bar man leads insurgency against street art ... You can run, but not hide from today's juror ... The cabbie and Keli Lane's missing baby ... Inside sex, uncovered by The Kirby Institute
Court in the Act • Friday, April 15, 2011 Former tax man involved in private rulings' scam wants his trial jury investigated ... Strange blog postings allegedly give glimpse of distracted, snoozing jurors at "work" ... Secrets of the Stubby Holder ... When is there finality?
Bar Talk • Friday, April 15, 2011 Map of Tasmania ... Drama at Kingston Beach Golf Club ... Golfers play through as silk stuck in the rough ... Complaint to club president ... Native hen cull ... Earlier correspondence from Malthouse tax guru unearthed
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Vulture fund litigation ... Issue of Hong Kong's jurisdiction over the Congo (Democratic Republic of) ... Expensive counsel fly in from the UK ... Mountains of cash, Chinese politics and judicial independence of Hong Kong all in play ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Sovereign immunity Critics Corner • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Michael Kirby's monarchist mates rarely lent a hand to help him during the great crises of his life ... Tony Abbott was a royalist chum, but did nothing to stop Heffernan's onslaught ... The High Court was paralysed ... Gleeson and Gaudron shouting match over whether to support Kirby ... Review of impressive new biography, Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles
Mary Gaudron, Michael Kirby, Murray Gleeson, undefined Bar Talk • Wednesday, April 6, 2011 First days of the O'Barrell government ... True colours revealed ... Latest Sydney chambers whirligigs ... Tribute for Hodgman ... Unfounded rumours
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Miss Gillard goes to Washington ... Trousering $500 a minute ... Lovely send-offs for Spigs ... Feds reluctant to run with RICO ... Kerry O'Brien's multiple question technique ... Evan Whitton at large
Fred Rodell, Jim Spigelman, RICO City Desk • Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Struggle between the NSW Police Integrity Commission and the state Crime Commission back in court on April Fools Day ... NSWCC seeking to stop PIC investigation and media leaks ... New Police Minister vows to "sort this out" ... Crown Solicitor asked to produce pleadings relating to CC's fishing expedition for journalists' sources ... Cops and crims look on in delight
Crime Commission, PIC, Proceeds of Crime Barry Lane • Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Barry Lane takes issues with Marilyn Warren CJ ... By being a member of VicBar and openingly spruiking its cause the CJ might be getting up the nose of the bar's competitors ... It's mostly about self-interest and repelling boarders
Judicial independence, Victorian Bar Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, March 21, 2011 Batting Padilla around the federal circuit courts ... The varied meanings of habeas corpus ... "Material support for terrorism" up for review in CMCR ... The Raymond Davis case - Vienna Convention applied to CIA agent ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington
Guantanamo, Law of war Tulkinghorn • Monday, March 21, 2011 The legal profession and the judges are superb at propaganda and the maintenance of a cartel ... Propagation of notions that bear no relationship to reality ... Should the statue of justice wear a blindfold or not? ... Take your pick ... Tulkinghorn reports
Deceptions, Legal profession Judges • Friday, March 18, 2011 NSW Chief Justice Jim Spigelman wraps-up on May 31 ... Personal refreshment ... "Diverse range of tasks" awaits ... Who's next? ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports on possible candidates
NSW Supreme Court, Spigelman CJ, Spigeltent Hellfire Club • Friday, March 18, 2011 Vic Supremo orders hapless former solicitor to compensate the Fidelity Fund for payouts to victims ... When will the indignities cease?
Trust accounts Polly Peck • Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Soapy Brandis still nagging about David Hicks ... The shadow AG's big policy gesture: confiscate the proceeds of Hicks' book ... It is far from clear that this is possible
David Hicks, George Brandis, Proceeds of Crime Judges • Friday, March 11, 2011 UPDATE ... "Earl" Warren says the Victorian bar should do some deep strategic thinking about its future ... It has dropped the ball and allowed law firms to steal its turf ... Fight back ... Promote ... Get with it ... Also, the reinvigorated notion of "duty to the court"
Duties to the court, Victorian Bar Judges • Thursday, March 10, 2011 "Earl" Warren CJ says the Victorian bar should do some deep strategic thinking ... It's dropped the ball and allowed law firms to steal its turf ... Fight back ... Promote ... Expand into new territory ... Get technological ... Get with it
Victorian Bar Barry Lane • Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Brunswick solicitor has costs victory in eight year losing battle over repairs to his Toyota Camry ... Luby's Mobile Mechanic charged $705.32 to fix the engine ... Lawyers charged $46,000 for trial and appeal ... If you stick with the litigation long enough there's bound to be a break through ... Barry Lane reports from Yarraside
Sir Terence O'Rort • Monday, March 7, 2011 Increase in X chromosomes on Queensland Supreme Court ... Attorney General Dick's outgoing appointments ... Sir Terence O'Rort analyses the great social, cultural and gender shifts in the Queensland judiciary