Roll call for silk ... 109 NSW barristers have their hands up for silken acknowledgement ... Bar's secret list for 2024 unmasked ... Stampede to exit the junior bar ... Finery ... Embroidery ... The annual Silk Bazaar ... Scoop ... Read more >>
Fairytales ... Lachrymose Linda … Breakdowns galore … Blame, shame, guilt … Family guide to the biggest show in town … It was “the process” wot done it … Court time chewed up by political drama … Senator in court over couch fallout ... Read on ...
A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >>
Letter from Blighty ... Filling the pauses - magistrate's messaging addiction during hearings ... Algerian boxer (he/him) sues X for cyber-bullying - gender experts punch below the belt ... Judge slapped with misconduct finding over 16 month delay in costs ruling ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from London ... Read more >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
Winners and grinners ... Smiling policy for lawyers ... Better coordination required ... When smiling runs amok ... Happy lawyers and glum clients ... Delighted clients and anxious lawyers ... Moments of intense seriousness ... Delirious money shots ... From Justinian's Photographic Editor ... Read more ...
Shake, rattle and roll ... Rose Bay real estate ... Brilliant suggestions for the High Court ... ICAC's special memories ... WCC appointment ... Knock About's liberal sprinkling of Gemmellisms ... From Justinian's Goings On column, November 21, 2014 ... Read more ...
Polly Peck • Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Determining the number of real District Court judges ... Numbers that never vary, depending on who is included or excluded ... Counter-terrorism provision that lapsed at sunset because no one was looking ... Online application policy - one thing for JPs, another for GIPA requests ... Polly Peck savours the vignettes of the NSW AG's administration
Hellfire Club • Friday, September 27, 2019 Queensland bar ... Shortcomings fixed by lashings more bar readership ... Professional misconduct where barrister persisted with appeal submissions that had no basis in fact ... Inexperience ... Promises not to practice family law again ... Penny dropped late in the process ... Out comes the damp lettuce leaf ... Ghost of Rose Mary Wood
Procrustes • Thursday, September 26, 2019 Rekindling the culture wars on museums ... Remembering the Howardistas' attack on Dawn Casey ... Political donations - a problem too far ... Corporates snapping up democracy at bargain basement prices ... Political intervention driven by ideology and money ... Procrustes explains it all
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Colonial Tasmania ... The Nightingale ... Jennifer Kent's new film takes us deep into our dark past ... Fearless Irish servant girl teams up with Aboriginal boy to hunt down their tormentors ... Our violent history revealed ... As our reviewer Miss Lumière discovers - there will be blood
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, September 20, 2019 Victorian judge agrees to handover the gate key ... Easement hijinks at the Vic Supremes ... Ingress and egress restored to judge's South Yarra neighbours ... Hilary ploughs ahead with her holiday judgment-writing in Canberra ... Latest instructions on wigs and robes ... Vasta Watch - a fresh bulletin ... Bookshelves Brandis bounces back to town ... Theodora reports
Court in the Act • Thursday, September 19, 2019 A solicitor appears before a Yarraside judicial registrar ... Where's my stay? ... Waiver of court fees ... Appeal ... What's going on? ... It's so simple ... Give me a case ... Seeking to appeal against an order that is not a final order ... Costs order ... No arguable case .. Impecuniosity ... Abuse of process ... It's pretty simple, right? ... I'm sick of this ... Which part of a fee waiver don't you understand? ... The next case has been called
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, September 18, 2019 The price of panic ... Stress caught a young lawyer unawares ... An innocent mistake compounded by forgery ... Bad look for the legal business ... Tears at work ... Depression and drinking ... Time in the wilderness for "self-reflection" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from the Bureau de Spank
Polly Peck • Monday, September 16, 2019 Important Bills passed by NSW parliament go mouldy on the shelf awaiting proclamation ... Modern Slavery Act and Surveillance Devices amendments ... Where are they? ... Revisions and refinements ... Government runs cold and warmish on data breaches ... Polly Peck reports from Macquarie Street's bear pit
