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 >>
The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Frosty Tom Hughes ... 1923-2024 ... More >>
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
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
Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, September 10, 2008 When lawyers "follow the fees" where does that lead the legal system? ... The business of privately funded criminal defence lawyers ... Why lawyers swapped horses ... Tulkinghorn traces the history ... From Justinian's archive, September 10, 2008
Goings On ... • Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Callinan's Japanese love scene mystery solved ... Prof. George Williams covers all lamentable appointment oversights ... Smoking airplane crashed into billable moments ... Adrian Powles RIP ... Defo in Van Diemen's Land ... The centre of the advocates immunity has just shifted ... Nietzsche's man at AG's department ... From Justinian's archive, August 2008
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Lord Robbo on justice for Radovan ... Organised crims love libel law, because they invented it ... It's time Bob French spoke up about the law against muttering ... Questions for Robert Richter ... Rugby quiz ... From Justinian's archive, August 6, 2008
Court in the Act • Friday, May 30, 2008 President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal delivers a clip on the ear to the "haughty and blinkered" High Court ... A memorable farewell speech from Keith Mason ... From Justinian's archive, May 30, 2008
Hellfire Club • Monday, December 31, 2007 Young Melbourne barrister struck off the roll a year after signing it … failure to come clean over essay collaboration with fellow student
Thursday, December 13, 2007 Spigelman stars in crime thriller … Mrs Spigelman draws literary inspiration from the eastern bloc … "Role model" judicial appointments in NSW … Justinian’s Tubby Callinan on the lecture circuit … The prosecutor as passionate photographer ... From Justinian's archive, December 13, 2007
Deja Vu • Thursday, December 13, 2007 Spigelman stars in crime thriller ... Mrs Spigelman draws literary inspiration from the eastern bloc ... "Role model" judicial appointments in NSW ... Tubby Callinan on the aged care lecture circuit ... From Justinian's bulging archive, December 2007
Deja Vu • Wednesday, November 21, 2007 It's 2007 and the federal election that saw the Howard government swept from office is underway ... Polly Peck visits the seat of Wentworth, where the campaign is particularly fervid ... Maybe it's because too many lawyers are involved ... From Justinian's archive, November 21, 2007
Deja Vu • Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Advertising for judges and the dignity of the bench ... Magistrates' status on the up-and-up ... Federal Court's Melbourne marketing blitz ... Privilege tussle over Sydney bar's Stephen Archer documents ... Grief sweeps VicBar over Faris' resignation ... From Justinian's archive, October 2007
Callinan Diaries • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Ian Callinan unwraps his presents at the farewell dinner thrown in his honour by Janette Howard. In this special, exclusive edition of his secret diaries© he unpacks the menu, the guests and his jurisprudential philosophy. Plus, we’re privy to the latest chapter in his upcoming thriller, The Cannelloni Conspiracy – A Recipe for Murder
Evan Whitton • Monday, July 16, 2007 Evan Whitton ... The first step for the Academy of Law is to uncover why lawyers are doomed to be unloved ... A missing staple comes as a reminder that process trumps truth ... From Justinian's archive, July 16, 2007
Goings On ... • Friday, June 8, 2007 Sir Gerry Brennan at centre of high-rise dog fight ... Flare-up at bench v bar dinner in Sydney ... Corrigan accuses union lawyers of "conniving" to select patsy judge ... Turf warfare over the right to publicity ... Horror stories from Cowderyland ... June 8, 2007
Deja Vu • Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Michael McHugh QC gave an opinion on the DPP's handling of the Patrick Power affair ... Power should not have been told about the discovery of child porn on his computer before the police were informed ... DPP Cowdery said the opinion was a "counsel of perfection" ... From Justinian's archive June 2007
Deja Vu • Friday, June 1, 2007 Peter Hayes QC died seven years ago in distressing circumstances ... Peter Faris and Isaac Brott were on hand to warn us about the dangers of lawyers taking too many powders ... From Justinian's archive ... June 1, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007 Parts of the embarrassing Clayton Utz documents on the Rolah McCabe tobacco case are now posted ... The question is, why haven’t Richard Travers and Glenn Eggleton been invited back to their old law shop as heroes? ... From our archive, January 11, 2007
Tulkinghorn • Friday, December 15, 2006 New Jersey tried to stamp-out out “self-aggrandising” titles such as “Super Lawyer”. Actually the “Super Lawyer” selection process was superior to those that are used here to appoint new Senior Counsel
Deja Vu • Wednesday, November 15, 2006 There have been dreadful legal problems recently for book publishers and authors - He Who Must be Obeid, Evil in a Blue Hoodie and Sins of the Father ... However, Chris Masters' book Jonestown was unscathed by litigation ... Threats from Jones' lawyer and complex pre-publication advice saw the ABC lose its nerve, only to have the book picked up by Allen & Unwin ... From Justinian's archive, November 15, 2006