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 >>
Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0 ... Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct ... 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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