<![CDATA[City Desk]]> http://justinian.com.au/76-Category?cat=4 2010-07-30T10:39:35-05:00 justinian@lawpress.com.au Justinian.com.au <![CDATA[City Desk - How goes the auction?]]> Elections are less than eight months away for long-suffering NSW voters … Are the Liberals sticking to the promise not to engage in a law and order auction? ... The new agenda is rehabilitation, with punitive add-ons … The political straddle is alive and well … Samantha Bowers reports

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2010-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - 63% off for the New Justinian]]> (free) Justinian is relaunching with a new design … To entice you to become a full-flooded subscriber we’re offering a once-off subscription discount of 63% ... $110 instead of the usual rate of $295 … Seize the moment … Click for the details

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2010-07-23T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Estcourt on Web 2]]> (free) Stephen Estcourt QC, foodie, blogger and social media fiend, reveals how Web 2 has expanded his life and work … #willingnesstohelp

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2010-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Raw prawns and tabloid beat-ups]]> Effectiveness of incarceration … The Crime and Justice Reform Committee has been setting out the facts on rates of imprisonment … An interesting study in contrasts … Fairfax and Murdoch reptiles absorb different messages over Danny Gilbert’s delicious treats

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2010-07-12T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Unlocking the archive]]> Miles of shelf space liberated … Bold scheme to digitise first hundred volumes of the CLR … Open access for the uplift of humanity … Sponsors sought

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2010-07-05T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Up the workers]]> Judge Keating’s list of new workers comp arbitrators refined by AG … Well known hands get the gigs … Parliamentary flourishes out the window … Updated

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2010-06-22T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Oz v Overland]]> Mullettgate … Fontainebleaugate … The Australian’s case against Victoria’s chief copper Simon Overland … But there is a hole in the key allegation … A few more facts would help … In the meantime enjoy the relentless tub thumping

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2010-06-17T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Freedom fighters to the barricades]]> A legal profession regulated by layers not lawyers … Independence in tatters … Judges and trade union reps rise-up against proposed national reforms … The English legal system remains strangely unthreatened by non-lawyer regulators … Samantha Bowers reports

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2010-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - A jihad on adversarialism]]> Portia attended the big chinwag in Melbourne on mediation and non-adversarial justice … She was singularly unimpressed … It put her in mind of a Billy Graham evangelical meeting … What’s happened to the old love for the godless adversarial joust?

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2010-05-21T00:00:00-05:00
<![CDATA[City Desk - Would the real CSR please stand-up?]]> CSR’s brush with Corporate Social Responsibility … Submissions about “commercial morality” frequently are a recipe for disaster … Professor Michael Adams* examines how and why CSR Ltd differs from James Hardie

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2010-05-13T00:00:00-05:00