Thursday
Feb272014
Line-up for new CJ of Queensland
Judges • Thursday, February 27, 2014 Names, form and potential ... Who's in contention for the chief's job ... Age and weight a factor ... Farewell Daphnis - it was great fun
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Judges • Thursday, February 27, 2014 Wednesday
Feb262014
Failure to seem unprejudiced
Court in the Act • Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Joe Antoun and corruption in the construction industry ... Recalling stand-over man's experience with NSW District Court judge ... Dead crim remembered
tagged District Court NSW, High Court, Joe Antoun, Terry Christie
District Court NSW, High Court, Joe Antoun, Terry Christie Tuesday
Feb252014
Barrister sunk over pork-pies to District Court
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Long struggle for Christine Nash ... Desperation in stumping-up money for a property scheme led to an unfortunate end to life at the bar ... Balmain property developers have reason to cry
Monday
Feb242014
The unexpected
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, February 24, 2014 More delicious NSA revelations ... Getting off the no-fly list ... Guantánamo update ... Remaking the law of war ... Botched executions ... Wall Street's lack of conviction ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
tagged Executions, Guantanamo, Law of war, NSA, Wall St
Executions, Guantanamo, Law of war, NSA, Wall St Friday
Feb212014
The avalanche to upgrade
Bar Talk • Friday, February 21, 2014 Rush for the patent letter at Vic's Bar n Grill ... Surge of SCs with hands-up for queen's bauble ... Monarchist sympathies awakened
tagged Queens Counsel, Victorian Bar
Queens Counsel, Victorian Bar Tuesday
Feb182014
Fresh horrors
Goings On ... • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 NSW QCs - attorney general Smith speaks ... Big law shop getting into the law news and reporting business ... Soapy making mischief at the Human Rights Commission
Tuesday
Feb182014
Dear Editor
City Desk • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Letters to the papers from David Flint, Senator Soapy Brandis and Bob (Plain Nut) Carr ... What are they on about? ... Strange missives
Monday
Feb172014
Top spinners
Court in the Act • Monday, February 17, 2014 A family of lobbyists and spinners with feet in all camps ... Government's food rating website and the clash of interests ... Remembrance of advice past ... Peanut butter lobbyists instructed judges and beaks on how to handle the meeja
Saturday
Feb152014
Misspeaking, misselling and mistakes
Roger Fitch Esq • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Gouging the punter ... Banks hit with huge fines and compensation ... Wave of weasel words ... Roger Fitch examines the latest scandals: crook insurance schemes, interest rate hedging scams and LIBOR rigging
Saturday
Feb152014
Spotlighting with Dyse
City Desk • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Dyson Heydon, a clever troglodyte, handed the spotlight by the Addams family ... Extraordinary powers to explore anything and anyone ... Recalling some of Dyse's finest historical and literary flourishes
Tuesday
Feb112014
There's no business like show business
Leverhulme • Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Updated on Friday, February 14, 2014 by
Justinian
Britain gripped by old codger sex trials ... Coronation Street star has no memory of his accusers ... For Leverhulme, the world seems upside down ... "Judge Grendal" asks, where was the judge? ... London Calling
tagged Sex offences, Sexual harassment
Sex offences, Sexual harassment Thursday
Feb062014
You wouldn't read about it
Goings On ... • Thursday, February 6, 2014 Liberals and monarchists combine to push Victorian silks into QC option ... SCs dash for the bauble ... Creative destruction grabs law journalism by the throat ... Fresh judgment from Justice Roughshagger ... Bottle of bubbly cracked over the bow of P.G. Hely Chambers
Monday
Feb032014
ICAC's new commissioner
Polly Peck • Monday, February 3, 2014 Changing guard at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption ... The life story of Justice Megan Latham ... Inspector Dave battens down the hatches ... Plan B for Abbott & Co ... Political crime sleuth Alex Mitchell reports
tagged David Levine, ICAC, Justice Megan Latham
David Levine, ICAC, Justice Megan Latham Friday
Jan312014
Regional reports
Goings On ... • Friday, January 31, 2014 Upending free speech in the Top End ... A terrible Christmas time in The Map
Thursday
Jan302014
McLeod's Daughters
Bar Talk • Thursday, January 30, 2014 Victorian silks pledge to be nice to wymyn barristers ... Bar-O-Meter ... Not all plain sailing for hurdlers doing the Quantum Leap ... Alix Piatek reports
Wednesday
Jan292014
Indemnity costs for egregiousness
Court in the Act • Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Defamatorium ... Clive Palmer's lessons in how not to wage a defamation action ... Acting for himself, then switching back to lawyers ... Failure to comply with case management rules ... Delays ... Last minute attempt to reactivate his case ... Submission for judge to recuse herself ... The kitchen sink ... Indemnity costs
tagged Case management, Clive Palmer, Defamation, Indemnity costs
Case management, Clive Palmer, Defamation, Indemnity costs Monday
Jan272014
Recusal perusal
Judges • Monday, January 27, 2014 Defamatorium ... Bias ... An abundance of applications for female defamation judges to recuse themselves ... Relatively few male judges face the same issue ... Why is this so?
tagged Defamation, Judges
Defamation, Judges Tuesday
Jan072014
VWA tells workers to SOD-off
Barry Lane • Tuesday, January 7, 2014 County Court of Victoria and the serious injury business ... WorkSafe bonuses to law firms ... $5m to Lander & Rogers ... VWA loses around 80 percent of the cases it contests ... Barry Lane remembers the Salvatore Verga litigation ... Chick Lander and his SOD-off policy
Wednesday
Dec182013
Black marks
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Repetition of the same error does not amount to "consistent" conduct ... Property finance scam ... Law Society's case goes nowhere on appeal ... However, distressing findings in bank loans contract case ... And forgetting to tell the bar association all the bad things that happened in life ... Reporter Alix Piatek
Wednesday
Dec182013
Home of the brave
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Year in review from Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch ... National Rifle Association's dreams come true ... Business lobby group wants more exploitation of the masses ... Guantánamo 11 years on ... Gay rights take hold ... As does the NSA
tagged Gay rights, Guantanamo, NRA, NSA
Gay rights, Guantanamo, NRA, NSA