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 >>
Lib-Nat government of Queensland appoints two new senior judges ... Court of Appeal and Northern Supreme Court ... Doyle KC and Johnstone KC ... Both from the same chambers ... Diversity at work ... 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 >>
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Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Lord Denning's nutty final lunge for the history books as he unpacks his dark side ... Capital punishment ... Birmingham Six ... Lesbianism
Lord Denning, capital punishment Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 From Justinian's archive comes this compelling explanation as to why NSW's 1992 Law Week festivities had to be delayed ... Attorney General Collins was jammed ... Call of the Coral Sea ... Deja Vu
Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Remembering the fallout from the Adrian Powles affair ... Seasons greetings as Allens faced receivership in 1992-1993 ... Special bail-out arrangements put in place as the Supreme Court obligingly applied a suppression order to the proceedings ... Department of Deja Vu
Allen Allen & Hemsley Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 DPP brings tax case against eccentric barrister Cliff Pannam QC, then gives character evidence for him at bureau de spank ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... Let the heady days of September 1991 be a salutary reminder to all of us
Bureau de Spank, Clifford Pannam Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 From Justinian's archive ... It's September 1995 and Kate Fitzpatrick v Charles Waterstreet was in full swing before Justice Brownie of the NSW Supremes ... Lots of drama as the spotlight shines on the state of discovery and affidavits ... Deja Vu
Charles Waterstreet, Kate Fitzpatrick Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 The Age reported that tax barrister Ian Spry had been the subject of a police investigation following a complaint of stalking ... VicBar upset that he was named in the press ... Apparently a violation of the presumption of innocence ... Newspaper war claims a victim ... Déjà Vu ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... October 1995
Ian Spry QC, Victorian Bar Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 The rich repository of Justinian's archive helps us remember NT lawyer and politician Shane Stone's brush with the stipes ... The Bob Liddle affair ... Ducking and weaving over finding of unprofessional conduct ... Client's matrimonial file injected into the political fray ... Déjà Vu from June 1995
Shane Stone QC Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Move over Roddy Meagher, Michael Kirby is snapping at your heels ... From 1962 comes this attack in Honi Soit ... The brutality of student politicians ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... Déjà Vu
Michael Kirby, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 It was a very different world in 1989 ... In Scotland gay judges were being hounded off the bench ... Victualler at Valentine's Bar heard loose tongue flapping ... Hooker tapes Honkers prosecutor asking for underage sex ... From Justinian December 1989
Homosexuality, Judges, Underage sex