Merits review ... AAT member's unzipped opinions ... Conservative elbows flailing in all directions ... Unrestrained by convention ... Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar ... Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs ... Fascination with gilded embroidery ... Theodora reports ... Read more ...
Back in the ring ... Rape on the minister’s couch … Cover-up … Of course, there was a cover-up … Bettina Arndt and the Institute for the Presumption of Bruce Lehrmann’s Innocence … Linda Reynolds needs sympathy and money … Justice Lee’s loose crumbs ... Read on ...
Plus ça change ... Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files ... Read more ...
Celebrations at the Lubyanka ... NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges ... Read more ...
Algorithmic injustices ... Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice ... Read more ...
Hoot ... Hoot ... No win, lots of fees – remembering Copper 7 … Conflicts and compromises ... Law and Social Work get cognate at U.Syd … Judge Felicity – feisty telly star … Wendler’s marmalade – by appointment ... From Justinian's Archive, July 30, 2010 ... Read more ...
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Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife.
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about.
Comment - Untamed opinions.
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics.
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on.
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar.
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout.
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs.
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions.
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher.
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions.
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Peach Melba • Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Where are we with the ALRC inquiry into family law? ... Issues paper ... Access to justice ... Advocacy and support services ... Therapeutic justice ... Exploration of new modes of service delivery ... Peach Melba on the case
ALRC, Family law Friday, April 6, 2018 University of Sydney opens the gates to more law students than ever ... Fifty percent greater than the rate of enrolment in previous years ... More places were also opened to transfer students ... Unsustainable pressure ... Not enough teaching staff or facilities ... Fiddling the ATAR ... Nick Bonyhady's tribute to the former registrar Tyrone Carlin
Friday, April 6, 2018 University of Sydney opens the gates to more law students than ever ... Fifty percent greater than the rate of enrolment in previous years ... More places were also opened to transfer students ... Unsustainable pressure ... Not enough teaching staff or facilities ... Fiddling the ATAR ... Nick Bonyhady's tribute to the former registrar Tyrone Carlin
Peach Melba • Tuesday, March 6, 2018 Sentencing Guidelines Council for Victoria ... Community input on sentencing ... Judges have the numbers on the new council ... Peach Melba's blog
Sentencing, Victoria Artemus Jones • Monday, February 19, 2018 What's an embarrassing clown like Barnaby Joyce doing as deputy prime minister of Australia? ... This sort of regressive, oafish, politician is well past his use-by date ... Artemus Jones looks at the mess the government has made of the Joyce affair and Turnbull's limited options to save himself from more ruin
Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Turnbull, Politics, Sex City Desk • Friday, January 26, 2018 Industrial bulletin ... Behind the scenes as the Fair Work Commission comes to grips with the threatened Sydney train strike ... Michael Harmer and the harm to his law firm ... Anxious school children made more anxious if train drivers didn't turn up for work ... Loose arguments aplenty ... Ryan Hunter on the case
Peach Melba • Monday, December 4, 2017 Human rights ... National Disability Insurance Scheme ... Systematic cracks ... The criminal justice system's disabled engagement with disability ... Peach Melba cites an example of someone who was rescued by ministerial intervention
Crime, Criminal justice, Disability, NDIS Monday, December 4, 2017 The world of law school memes ... Gummow, with his fashion sense, pips Kirby in online popularity ... Values free crassness ... Subeta Vimalarajah presents her comparison of outstanding student memes
Monday, November 20, 2017 The take-home exam collapses time but is on its last legs because of student collusion ... More invigilatory supervision required ... Exam audit underway ... Barely Legal reports from her corn-chip cave
Travel • Tuesday, October 31, 2017 How democracy works ... Hannah Ryan visits Canberra and the Museum of Australian Democracy ... Not much of a spiritual experience, yet there's something endearing about this version of democracy that doesn't take itself too seriously
Humanity Headlines • Thursday, October 26, 2017 Celebrities and registering the names of their offspring as trade marks ... Beyoncé strikes trouble with licensing little Blue Ivy Carter's personal brand ... Subeta Vimalarajah riffles through the trade marks register
Celebrity, Intellectual property, Trade marks Peach Melba • Monday, October 16, 2017 New Migration Act amendments ... Strip searching detainees in immigration detention ... Prohibited "things" to be determined by the minister ... Use of dogs to search detainees ... More humiliations ... Peach Melba files
Immigration detention, Migration Act Barely Legal • Monday, October 16, 2017 Barely Legal's constant hunt for free nourishment ... Sustenance on a student's miserable stipend ... Exam time and destitution ... Failing to live off the fat of the law
Food, Internships, Law students Peach Melba • Tuesday, September 26, 2017 A dip into September's cases brought under Victoria's Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities ... Human rights of prisoners and Sikhs at school ... So far the world hasn't collapsed ... Peach Melba on the front line
Charter of Rights, Human rights Barely Legal • Saturday, September 16, 2017 Stress ... Decay ... Dental grinding ...Pain ... Raging flu ... Workaholism ... Burrito crisis ... Jeremy Bentham and A.V Dicey make an appearance ... Law student misery ... Barely Legal takes a day off
Law students, Mental health, Physical health