Guts and Dolls ... Federal Courts' electronic case management scheme bleeding time and money ... Legal advice from a chatbot ... Lee goes into the Lions' Den ... Live-streaming may be too "accessible" ... Tassie silks wonder what happened to their royal plumage ... Theodora with the latest ... Read more >>
The politics of catastrophe ... Autocrats who were “elected” … Dictators rarely survive in one piece … The fate of Trump as Trumpism turns rancid … Hitler, Mussolini, the Ceauşescus, Saddam … Everything goes swimmingly, until it doesn’t … Sleeping with one eye open … Exile or death ... Read on ...
Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike over constitutional changes ... Independence of prosecutors at stake ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Omnishambles rolls on ... Linda Reynolds former chief of staff, Fiona Brown, sues the Commonwealth ... Fair Work ... Breach of general protections ... File >>
London Calling ... Law n Order in Blighty ... King invites the King for State visit ... Grovels aplenty ... Magistrate over does the "send him down" ... Musos strike an angry chord about AI encroachment ... Law shops protect the billable hour ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files ... Read more >>
Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >>
Pat's wobbly evidence in defamation case ... Remembering the great Pat O'Shane's defamation case against culture warrior Janet (The Planet) Albrechtsen ... Pat comes home at the trial and most of the damages on appeal ... When Fairfax defended Albrechtsen ... From Justinian's Archive, April 15, 2004 ... Read more >>
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Court in the Act • Friday, July 29, 2022 Remote vs in-the-flesh hearings … Split bench of Allsop, Bell, and Ferguson CJs… Less Q & A … More flexibility … Less humanity … More efficiency … Judicial hits on YouTube … Coat of arms not just a piece of artwork …Winds of conservatism blow briskly through the legal world … Margery Ai reports
Court in the Act • Friday, October 2, 2020 Requiem for a company ... Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full
Court in the Act • Monday, September 4, 2017 The High Court hearings on the same-sex marriage postal survey ... The subjective state of Mathias Cormann's mind comes under the microscope ... Whether the advance to the finance minister was "urgent" and "unforeseen" ... School Chaplains' case ... Plaintiffs' and Commonwealth's arguments ... Curtain raiser from Scott Young
Constitution, Marriage equality Court in the Act • Saturday, April 2, 2011 Richard Ackland recalls the torturous trail of the McCabe litigation ... Clayton Utz in the frame ... Settlement soon after retrial and discovery ordered by VicSupremo Stephen Kaye
Tobacco litigation 