Spotlight on McClintock ... Former defamation silk takes the podium ... Speech and fielding questions in clubland ... Jabs at enemies ... Why fewer punters are suing ... Cross-examining journalists ... Fun cases ... When not to sue ... From Ginger Snatch at lunch ... Read more >>
A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ...
Bird on the wing ... Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP ... Read more >>
Letter from London ... T.S Eliot gets it wrong ... Harry cleans up in a fresh round with Murdoch's hacking hacks ... All aboard Rebekah Brooks' "clean ship" ... Windy woman restrained from further flatulent abuse ... Trump claims "sovereign immunity" to skip paying legal costs of £300,000 ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... 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 ...
A life in Commonwealth cars is not a good look ... Scene beside the lake ... Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon ... A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good ... Taxi driver's failure to lament ... From Justinian's Archive, February 2, 2009 ... Read more ...
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On the Couch • Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Richard Beasley SC is On The Couch ... Novellist and silk ... Until now he was ankle deep in the Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission, which reported on January 29 ... Last meal on death row ... Playing with a horse jigger ... Thoughts on water and life
Richard Beasley SC, Royal Commission Critics' Corner • Tuesday, May 28, 2013 The punchy suburbs of Adelaide in the 1970s ... Barrister Richard Beasley's new novel Me and Rory Macbeath evokes shades of the Violet Roberts case ... Boys into men ... Domestic violence, bullying and the defence of provocation ... Reviewed by Linda Funnell