Judicial shockers ... The justice business ... Appeal admonitions ... Sore bottoms for those lower down the chain of command ... Nationwide lapses ... Perfection proves elusive ... Latest from Ginger Snatch ... Read more ...
Journalism's new poster boy ... Our Julian's long and winding road … Legal quagmire … Espionage Act versus prior restraint of the press … The born-again "journalist" who hates journalism … Establishing a treacherous precedent … Not letting shortcomings swamp the positives ... Read on ...
It's too late for the thylacine ... Procrustes closely analyses recent Justinian reports ... The Ippster and Stella Liebeck ... Tort law reform that went beyond the Pale ... In Tassie, no one is allowed to speak for the forests ... Standing up against State rule of the trees ... Where's Syd Shea when you need him? ... Read more ...
Vic's Bar ... Oral history ... Jeff Sher and his famous cases ... More >>
Courtroom capers ... Federal Court's digital hiccups ... Principal Registrar in home run ... Pronunciation requirements for names and pre-nominate ... Elocution audit ... Common law shuffle in New South Wales ... Vicki Mole reports ... Read more ...
The election season ... The case for compulsory voting ... Pity the Brits, French and Americans where politicians have to "get out the vote" ... Nathan Twibill on the advantages of the "median voter" strategy ... Vote early, vote often ... Read more ...
Self-promotion ... Academics scramble to peddle influence with High Court judges ... Government seeks new role for s.18C ... Twenty-one years later, the cheque arrives ... Would you eat at a cafe owned by a Cabinet minister? ... From Justinian's Archive, October 27, 2014 ... Read more ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 A failed milk empire … When a Chinese mainland enterprise registered in The Caymans goes bust the Enterprise Bankruptcy Lawis not much help to investors … Things looking better for creditors of Virgin Islands based Chinese businesses … Still, Honkers remains the pre-eminent financial centre in the region … Percy Lo-kit Chan reports
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Matters of the heart and mind … Viscount Castlereagh showed Sin City how to get things done … Law and old rope … Plenty of options for Sir Joh’s kaolin … Effrontery aplenty
Bar Talk • Sunday, May 9, 2010 Much ado … Roger Gyles QC says the silk consultation process is “superficial” ... Selection committee needs to be more rigorous … Some of the major shortcomings in the present system exposed, but by no means all … Bar ‘n’ grill ponders
Deja Vu • Tuesday, May 4, 2010 There’s no end to the Michael Kirby story … Legal justice chases social justice … Love at first sight, despite the odd clothing
Friday, April 30, 2010 Lawyers can’t write properly … Some can’t talk proper … Now it’s infecting the secretaries … Vicki Mole remembers the Plain English training she got as an articled clerk … It comes in handy
Last year, my secretary was rockin’ the Baltimore street slang, Stringer Bell stylie.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Remember NSW Supreme Court Justice David Yeldham? ... The powers-that-be knew of his activities in the railway toilets of the underground, but looked the other way … The Police Royal Commission’s final report tracked the history of inaction by ICAC and the Judicial Commission … From Justinian’s hard copy archive, September 1997
Tulkinghorn • Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Last week Vic CJ Marilyn Warren told a room of journalists that “judges don’t spin” ... Oh yes they do … Some of them not very cleverly … What Marilyn needs is proper spin training from Spiggsie Spigelman … Tulkinghorn investigates ...
Jim Spigelman, Marilyn Warren Friday, March 26, 2010 Junior Junior believes that his cases stand or fall depending who’s on the bench … It’s a difficult concept for clients to comprehend … If only the DNA of some of these beaks could be manipulated … A bit less grump … A bit more fairness.
Deja Vu • Friday, March 12, 2010 Chang, Pistilli and Simmons - former partners of Antagonistic Heartless - go down in fight about their share of late recorded billings … Too much distrust, too little courtesy ... From our archive, March 12, 2010
Atanaskovic Hartnell Saturday, January 2, 2010 Struggle over legal fees paid by alleged drug dealers produces some intriguing arguments over who owns the loot … Sizzling retainer agreement in contention ... Sir Terence O'Rort reporting ... From Justinian's archive, January 2, 2010
Monday, December 14, 2009 The Ozcar - Utegate crisis ... Email traffic March-May 2009 between Godwin Grech and Credit Suisse's John O’Sullivan ... Conservatives in manipulative tryst ... Leaks from Treasury to Liberal Party apparatchiki
Deja Vu • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Love in the seventies ... A young Malcolm Turnbull warns his ex-girlfriend’s cat about the treachery of new boyfriends ... Cat asked to intercede in broken romance drama ... A Justinian exclusive ... From the archive, June 17, 2009
City Desk • Monday, April 20, 2009 Clarence Darrow and the vanishing art of advocacy … Doctors convinced David Kelly was murdered … Alex Mitchell files from what’s left of Fleet Street ... From Justinian's archive, July 20, 2009
Deja Vu • Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Barry Lane tracks in exquisite detail the Kala Subramaniam case, which should have sounded a warning bell for The Mensch ... Alas ... From Justinian's archive, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Prez Obama adopts Bush legal strategies … Boeing subsidiary sued for flying rendition planes … Bagram prison likely to replace Guantánamo as dumping ground for the indefinitely detained … Uighurs trapped in partisan appeals court ... Roger Fitch from Washington
Deja Vu • Saturday, November 8, 2008 Remember Angela Liati, the "solitary crusader" caught up in the Marcus Einfeld case? ... The cat loving, Boston Legal watcher has some strong views about what needs to be changed about Australia and the legal system ... She was on Justinian's couch in November 2008 ... A tiny treasure from our archive
Bar Talk • Monday, November 3, 2008 Unspecified grumbling about president Anna Katzmann at the NSW bar 'n' grill saw the emergence of a "reform" agenda for the bar's 2008 AGM ... Also, better safeguards against customers who complain about barristers' performance ... Change unlikely ... From Justinian's archive, November 3, 2008
Deja Vu • Sunday, October 26, 2008 It takes submissions from a dope fiend to have Queensland judges wrapping themselves in extra layers of dignity and producing weighty reasoning about delirious abstractions ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports ... From Justinian's archive, October 26, 2008
Deja Vu • Monday, September 15, 2008 The Commonwealth DPP doesn't think that judges have to concentrate all the time ... A judge can be sound asleep, but if that makes no difference to the outcome of a trial, then snooze on ... DPP says it's a matter of effect, not appearances ... High Court transcript makes for fun reading ... From Justinian's archive, September 15, 2008