Sia in the counting house ... Damn statistics ... Federal Court mandarins inability to count ... Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services ... Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates ... Transparency ... From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... 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 >>
Drowning Centre floods ... Courts crisis ... Update from the government on what's happening ... 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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Obit • Friday, June 9, 2023 Leverhulme RIP ... UK-based correspondent for Justinian dies unexpectedly ... Wonderful writer, a creative teacher, skilled advocate, scholar and friend ... Tribute to Peter Lyons ... By Richard Ackland
Peter Lyons Miss Lumière • Sunday, May 28, 2023 Cold case opened - then shut ... Young Aboriginal girl goes missing from a bleak outback town ... Police indifference and brutality ... Miss Lumière reviews Ivan Sen's masterful new film Limbo
Film review Critics' Corner • Sunday, May 7, 2023 Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at Yass ... An end to the grand piano ... An alternative consideration of New South Wales ... Review by Max Shanahan
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Robodebt - a Frankenstein Monster ... Technology unchecked ... Liberal governments' traditional distain for welfare recipients ... Targeting the most vulnerable ... Legal concerns ... Failure at every level ... Duck shoving and deceit exposed by Royal Commission ... Hugh Vuillier reports
Critics' Corner • Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Law students in Africa ... Pan African mooting ... Intense competition ... Idealism versus ambition ... Friendships strained ... "African values" and human rights ... Documentary reviewed by Max Shanahan
Law students, Moot Wendler on Wine • Wednesday, February 8, 2023 Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush
Margaret River, Western Australia, Wine Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, December 9, 2022 Russians and their fake evidence ... Alliance Française in Siberia ... On the run from the FSB ... Svetlana to the rescue ... Suspense ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Friday, December 2, 2022 Corporate influence targets top US judges ... Dark Money funding access to SCOTUS ... Ethics violations undisturbed ... Federalist Society turnstile ... Feedback loop ... Hunting expeditions ... Leaks of conservative-religious court decisions ... Clarence & Ginni - nothing to see here
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Notorious RBG ... Heather Mitchell at her finest ... Review by Braham Dabscheck
Judges • Thursday, August 25, 2022 Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the Taliban
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