Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank ... Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan 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 ...
Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ...
Letter from London ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees ... 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 ...
Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more ...
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Friday, May 1, 2020 Pell verdict from on High ... Clash of credibilities ... Tricks of the trade ... The jury must be irrational ... Compounding improbabilities ... The improbable nature of cardinals ... Doubts, reasonable and otherwise ... Media hysterics ... Theodora on the case
Miss Lumière • Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Miss Lumière selects 10 of her favourite courtroom films ... An Atticus Finch/John Grisham free zone ... Not all is black and white ... Flaws in the legal process finely wrought on celluloid ... Most if not all are available on streaming services
Film review, Lockdown On the Couch • Friday, February 28, 2020 On The Couch with Jacko ... Failure to sing God Save the King ... Winning cases that should be won ... The role of money ... Military inclinations ... Changing role of the High Court ... Wither the bar? ... And more
Barristers, Constitution, David Jackson QC, High Court Wendler on Wine • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Hazel Murphy - marketing marvel for Australian wine in the UK and Europe ... Obit from Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler ... Bron Waugh became a believer ... "Chateau Chunder" rendered obsolete
Thursday, February 27, 2020 Conduct unbecoming ... Judicial officer who is a repeat offender ... Internal investigations ... Counselling .. No evident improvement in behaviour ... "Lapses in demeanour" ... Home spun NT Judicial Commission ... From John Lawrence SC in Darwin
Thursday, February 13, 2020 Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Monday, January 27, 2020 Just Mercy ... Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative ... Saving the misrepresented from death row ... Black men presumed guilty in America's south ... Racist legal system ... Dirty prosecution tricks ... Frying flesh... Miss Lumière at the movies
Department of Gripes • Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Government makes climate change noises, but no pressing need for a more urgent policy setting ... Fools paradise persists ... God will show the way as science takes the backseat ... Miracles galore ... Inspiration from Trump ... The editor comments
Climate, Morrison government Critics' Corner • Thursday, December 19, 2019 Former judge Greg Woods reviews Frank & Fearless a memoir by former NSW DPP Nicholas Cowdery ... Policy intervention on drugs and mandatory sentencing ... Prosecutor in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Lionel Murphy cases ... Symmetry with Murphy's progressive views ... Salvos from the mothball fleet ... The Gordon Wood case ... Law reform
Criminal law, DPP, Lionel Murphy, Nicholas Cowdery Profile • Thursday, December 19, 2019 Lawyer, rigger, runner, stagehand, actress and screenwriter ... Creator of Janet King ... A pitch for marriage equality ... Legal drama powered by family strife and prosecutorial tensions ... Parenting imperfectly ... Exaggerated reality ... Gudrun Willcocks catches-up with Jane Allen beachside
Crime, Criminal law, DPP, Jane Allen, Janet King, Television 