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 >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... 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 >>
Inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker ... Finding that former constable Zachary Rolfe was a racist and that the NT Police had the hallmarks of institutionalised racism ... Failure of NT Police to properly supervise Rolfe "contributed to the sense of impunity with which he approached his work as a police officer and emboldened his approach" ... Coroner Judge Elizabeth Armitage's findings in full >>
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
Stephen Keim • Monday, September 6, 2010 Psychological fallout from US supermax detention comes under gaze of the ECHR ... Long arm of the European Convention stretches to the isolation ward of US justice ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree review the Babar Ahmad case
Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 3, 2010 Michael Kirby swaps horses on our justice system ... When it operates, it operates very well ... How often might that be? ... Former High Court judge says there are not enough lawyers in politics ... Tulkinghorn thinks Kirby might have lost it
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, September 1, 2010 The lies of war ... Andrew Wilkie and Afghanistan ... Dickie Pratt and the great box cartel heist ... Hiding evidence from everybody ... Michael Wilding gives dud journalism a whack ... Alf Parsons, diplomat, passes ... Evan Whitton observes
Judges • Tuesday, August 31, 2010 From across the ditch comes the sulphurous whiffs of judicial impropriety ... New Zealand appeal judge's conflict of interest ... Justice Bill Wilson failed to give full, open disclose about his financial involvement with senior counsel for litigant ... Traffic of distressing emails
Apprehended bias, Conflict of interest Stephen Keim • Monday, August 30, 2010 Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission lays waste to police investigation of Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody ... The smell of cover-up ... The roar of the police union ... Ghosts of Fitzgerald ... Stephen Keim and Alex McKean report
Polly Peck • Wednesday, August 25, 2010 REVISED ... Election outcome ... Major parties bereft of ideas and inspiration ... Independents fill the void ... Will the Governor General draw constitutional inspiration from Jolly John Kerr? ... Polly Peck's special insights
Tulkinghorn • Friday, August 20, 2010 Clients can't be smelt, even when they pong ... The GFC brought on with the valuable assistance of commercial lawyers ... They may not understand the documents ... But they understand how to bill ... Tulkinghorn on involuntary inertial disorder
GFC, commercial lawyers Barry Lane • Friday, August 20, 2010 Secret surveillance of workers claiming compo is about as useful as ASIO spying on the Aarons family ... The WorkCover industry is hooked on spooking ... Barry Lane files from Melbourne
Sir Terence O'Rort • Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Berna Collier is not travelling well at the Federal Court ... A full court bollocking is the latest in a lengthing list of unhappinesses ... Is it fair? ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports
Berna Collier, Federal Court Bar Talk • Monday, August 16, 2010 One hundred and twenty eight hopefuls have their hands up for the silk gown in the NSW bar's annual selection process ... New protocols to be tested ... Ambition, ego, status and money all jostling for a rails position ... We have the names
Senior Counsel selection Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, August 16, 2010 Bush hacks winning the war of attrition as Democrats bail out of the DoJ ... Khadr case shaping-up to set a dangerous precedent - it's a war crime to shoot at an American soldier ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
War crimes Deja Vu • Thursday, August 12, 2010 From Justinian's archive ... It's August 12, 2010, nine days before the federal election ... Soapy Brandis is being hosted at Beppis by a bevvy of Sydney silks ... Law 'n' Justice policies thin on the ground ... Strange issues emerge in the campaign for Wentworth ... Here we go again ... Insight into the barrenness of the upcoming 2013 poll
George Brandis, Law and justice, Politics, Wentworth Leverhulme • Wednesday, August 11, 2010 London Calling … A nation racked with choice and diversity awareness … Insensitive judicial officers sent to re-education camps … Australian election steadfastly ignored … Evelyn Waugh’s explanation for never voting … Leverhulme files
Judicial complaints City Desk • Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Soapy George Brandis comes to town … Tickling the Sydney Bar ‘n’ Grill for campaign money … Others might want to actually press policy ideas at closed circle Beppi’s din-dins
Elections, Law and justice policies Polly Peck • Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Soapy George Brandis comes to town … Tickling the Sydney Bar ‘n’ Grill for campaign money … Others might want to actually press policy ideas at closed circle Beppi’s din-dins
Stephen Keim • Monday, August 9, 2010 Administration switches tack in long running habeas case … Law of war … Detention without trial continues to flourish … Government lawyers doing their worst … Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree report
Habeas, Law of war Deja Vu • Thursday, August 5, 2010 Littlemore gets saucy … VicAppeals unhappy without two counsel … Languid Family Court judge hits herself in the face ... From Justinian February 1999
Slow judge, Two counsel rule Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, August 3, 2010 The tree of man … Ancient fight over fig tree on Eldons’ estate not over yet … Further appeals planned to get unimproved land value of Ascot spread reduced to almost zero … Stellar court room showing by Eldon patriarch … Sir Terence O’Rort reports
A.J.H. Morris, G.O.M. Morris, Lord Eldon Deja Vu • Tuesday, August 3, 2010 The tree of man … Ancient fight over fig tree on Eldons’ estate not over yet … Further appeals to get unimproved land value of Ascot spread reduced to almost zero … Stellar court room showing by Eldon patriarch … Sir Terence O’Rort reports
Anthony Morris City Desk • Monday, August 2, 2010 Not all mental breakdowns are equal … Some are more “reasonable” than others … Victoria leads the nation in workplace bullying claims … New amendments come as a great relief to captains of industry … Luke Williams reports
Bullying, Workers Compensation