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
William Collins • Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Protestant ascendancy struck from William Angliss' trusts ... Religious requirement for trustees no longer appropriate ... Butchers, bakers, cooks and waiters graduating from the William Angliss Institute considerably relieved ... William Collins reports from Yarraside
Bar Talk • Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Famous silks enraged by sudden demotion to low-rank "leading juniors" in The Australian/Chambers legal ratings ... Newspaper's lavish boast ... Egg on face difficult to remove
Barristers, Legal rankings, Silks Evan Whitton • Friday, February 25, 2011 We need a comprehensive list of guilty beaks ... RICO legislation well overdue ... Dworkin's theory of law fails to grasp the importance of money ... Deep within the system we find the Wisners ... Evan Whitton at large
Leverhulme • Friday, February 25, 2011 Leverhulme goes to Chancery Lane to chat about alternative business structures with legal practice guru Stephen Mayson ... Bold new ways of running law shops take effect in October ... Parallels with NSW's structural adventures
Around The Firms • Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Serious new allegations emerged from a defamation case against Russell Keddie, Tony Barakat and Scott Roulstone ... Court of Appeal did not allow trial to accommodate malice claims within time frame ... Buying off conduct complaints underscores failure of the disciplinary system
Overcharging, professional conduct City Desk • Wednesday, February 23, 2011 The law and justice spokespeople for the main parties were put through their paces at a Community Justice forum in Sydney on the weekend ... Opposition parties want to make significant changes to the "penal colony" ... Labor is stuck with its record ... Tom Westbrook reports
Hellfire Club • Friday, February 18, 2011 Clutz's billing methods birched in Queensland ... Maria Bechara's magic transformation of an hour into three billable hours ... WA solicitor trumps legal aid with litigation funding for impoverished client ... Victoria prepares to say "Bye, Bye Brottie" ... Busy time for Bureaux de Spank across the nation
Billing, Clayton Utz, Fees, Isaac Brott Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, February 15, 2011 WikiLeaks and espionage ... First birthday for Citizens United ... Extra curricula political activities haunt Justices Scalia and Thomas ... Local district courts riven by politics ... Our Man in Washington reports
Julian Assange, Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Systematic judicial bias in favour of the legal profession ... Prof. Benjamin Barton's latest sally ... Ordinary citizens see what's going on ... Lawyers don't ... Accountants sent to jail for doing the same thing lawyers do with impunity ... Tulkinghorn flings down some burning oil
Judicial bias Around The Firms • Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Indemnity costs order made against former Keddies' partners ... Negligence action brought against Stacks/Goudkamp had no reasonable prospects of success ... Judge Colefax's reasons referred to the Legal Services Commissioner
Leverhulme • Friday, February 4, 2011 Forget Egypt ... The biggest news in Britain is the performance of a couple of buffoon sports commentators on Rupe's Sky network ... The Red Tops in a frenzy over sexist wisecracks ... More defo and privacy actions loom ... Leverhulme sorts out Tony Blair ... Chilcot's sure to nail the former PM
Defamation, Privacy, Sky Sports, Tony Blair Around The Firms • Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Law firms pump-out the press releases ... Slater & Gordon hires more social workers for needy clients ... Brydens wants the Libs to loosen-up on injury law ... White & Case brands the Jessup Moot
Stephen Keim • Saturday, January 29, 2011 High Court breathes fresh life into implied right of political speech ... Robert French's court opens intriguing new possibilities ... Stephen Keim and Mary Ayad examine Aid/Watch v Commissioner of Taxation
Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, January 25, 2011 The Kafkaesque world of case flow management ... Surviving the Intervention Notice pantomime ... Case management judge skewered by Qld CA ... Sir Terence O'Rort reporting from Brisvegas
City Desk • Sunday, January 23, 2011 UPDATE ... Bret Walker disagrees with Crown Solicitor's advice ... Power of parliamentary committee to summon witnesses while parliament is prorogued ... Gentrader inquiry to proceed ... Heaps of opinions on Parliament v Executive
Evan Whitton • Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Barrister wants to know how many crates of champers can fit in a Ferrari? ... Chris Mullin's A View from the Foothills ... Official government liars ... Lyndon Johnson thought Australia was a "shirt tail frill" ... Blair exposed as another frill ... Evan Whitton at large
Bob Menzies, Chris Mullin, Igor Judge, Tony Blair Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Riparian torrent soaks the golden triangle ... Firms in Brisvegas retreat to the Sofitel, the cellar door at Clovely Wines or dry digs interstate ... Sir Terence O'Rort surfaces
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Stitching-up Assange ... Ninth anniversary of Guantánamo ... More Gitmo-related cases head for the Supreme Court ... Trying to fathom the meaning of "material support" ... Not all terrorist organisations are opposed by Republicans ... Washing Dick Cheney's dirty linen ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Guantanamo, Julian Assange, material support City Desk • Friday, January 14, 2011 Big Brisbane law shops hoping to dry out soon ... Water laps Eagle Street ... Some firms stumping-up significant dollars for flood relief ... Timesheets can be downloaded at home ... Plenty of legal work to come ... Tom Westbrook reports
Brisbane law firms, floods Tulkinghorn • Monday, December 27, 2010 Economics and criminal defence lawyering ... The creation of a GETGO system ... Ethical rules and the twiddly bits ... Prosecutors are meant to stand still, while the other side does all the shooting ... How do I know whether I am guilty or not until I have seen the evidence? (Irish joke)
Criminal defence, Disclosure of evidence, Ethics