Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
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
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