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News from the Rialto ... According to our sources a TV series called Defo, starring Rachel Griffiths, is in development ... About a lawyer who sets up an all-female set of barristers' chambers in Melbourne specialising in defamation and media misbehaviour ... 

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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 >> 

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The dark art of sham litigation ... Fraudulent litigation ... Bodgy debts to circumvent real creditors ... Defamation actions to wash money ... Moldovan courts to the rescue of Russian gangsters ... Italian divorces in Maidenhead ... From Justinian's Archive, January 2016 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Entries in Court in the Act (226)

Thursday
Feb092023

Complaints department

, • DateThursday, February 9, 2023

Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial ... A storm of defamation actions ... Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action ... Pipelines to the press ... Federal Court opens the suppression portal ... Threats, complaints and investigations ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Morpheus arises

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

Judge's inability to complete the work as "quickly as I would have liked" ... Latest in a string of slowcoach judgments ... Supreme Court delays ... Boilerplate explanations ... Memory remains as fresh as a daisy ... Groper reports 

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Friday
Dec162022

WA Madge says, 'don't mess with me'

• DateFriday, December 16, 2022

Contentious magistrate shifted from WA Children's Court ... Constitutional imperilment ... Independence of judicial officers ... Argy-bargy with head of jurisdiction ... Government meddling ... Big drama, according to Groper 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Another Jarndyce

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years ... Delays and apprehended bias ... Distain and disregard ... Going nowhere after eight years ... Retrial ordered ... Start again ... Artemus Jones reports 

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Tuesday
Dec062022

Coco Pops

• DateTuesday, December 6, 2022

Over-wrought prison sentence for climate protestor ... United Nations dismayed ... Premier reading from a law n' order script ... "Way of life" under assault ... City street closed for a state government hoedown ... Protests should be "convenient" ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Sunday
Dec042022

Draining the swamp

• DateSunday, December 4, 2022

Alleged costs conspiracy ... Drainage dispute induces hydra-headed litigation spree ... Professional indemnity insurance in peril ... Gross sum costs orders by the Hammer ... 20 years later on its goes ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Nov252022

Prosecution disappears under a bus

• DateFriday, November 25, 2022

South Australia ... Alleged abuse of public office ... Investigation of public servant's junkets ... Breach of German sovereignty ... Blunders by ICAC ...Prosecution collapses, twice ... Great moments in the law ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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Friday
Sep232022

Recusal report

• DateFriday, September 23, 2022

Department of bad looks ... Defamation judge in WA refuses to step aside from a trial in which she had previously worked for the plaintiff's counsel ... Non-disclosure of prior working relationship ... Cherry picking ... Theodora reports 

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