Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle ... Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more ...
Pastoral care ... The money issue … Tiddlywinks young man … Private school goes public – courtesy of the ABC … Cranbrook’s latest expulsions … The Billionaires’ Bible … Fairy dust for unrest in Gaza … Ruth Bader Ginsburg spinning in her crypt … Fresh interpretations for the rule of law ... Read on ...
It's customary ... Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files ... Read more ...
Letter from London ... Brits obsession with the Royals ... Staffers in the frame for attempted theft of Princess Kate's medical records ... Bitcoin liberated from false claims by Satoshi Nakamoto ... Struck off for inflated time records ... Rwanda - plain sailing ahead ... From our correspondent in Blighty, Floyd Alexander-Hunt ... Read more ...
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Sofronoff scuppered ... A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland ... Read more ...
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more ...
Hellfire Club • Friday, July 30, 2021 Suppression order sought but not granted ... Legal Services Commissioner's jurisdictional drama ... Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal ... Application to suppress details rejected ... Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed ... Feelings of despair ... Less work ... Snubbed ... Huge expense ... Law Reform Commission ... Alan Zheng reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 29, 2021 In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, July 23, 2021 Porsche driving head of equity being fitted for CJ robes ... Willy or won't he? - Alstergren favoured for Chuckles' job ... The Christian's costly litigation spree ... Biased judges survey ... Wot's going on at the NSW solicitors' society? ... Coincidental political allies appointed to IR gig ... Sharks salute sharks ... Theodora with Goings On
Court in the Act • Friday, July 23, 2021 Back to pokey for Eddie Obeid ... A fresh experience awaits Moses ... Decades of villainy ... Leading NSW crime figures slotted ... Vindication for ICAC's findings and rule of law ... Despair for The Tamil ... Obeid Snr cast as a "political prisoner" ... Time to crank-up the Free Eddie campaign
Judges • Wednesday, July 21, 2021 UPDATE ... Blunders by inexperienced Family Court judge ... Need for dispatch to reeducation camp ... Friends in high places ... Precedent ignored ... Edward Longshanks no help ... Lengthy judgments with irrelevant citations ... "Odd" ... George Pell referenced ... "Perplexing" ... Ginger Snatch reports
On The Couch • Friday, July 16, 2021 A new book on H.V Evatt, the lawyer, judge and politician, from author and journalist Gideon Haigh ... Exploration of Evatt's dissent in the great nervous shock case Chester v Council of the Waverley Municipality ... What on earth were the other High Court judges thinking? ... Great turning points in law, politics and history ... With some fine attitudes we find Gideon Haigh on Justinian's Couch
Court in the Act • Monday, July 12, 2021 Nye neighs loudly at Circus Court judgment that did not get to grips with the evidence ... Twigs assembled for a "forensic bird's nest" ... Blots on the judicial escutcheon ... AAT's incompetence ... Eight years later application remains unresolved ... Justice Charlesworth finds more jurisdictional error in the case of an Iranian conscientious objector
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 8, 2021 Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view