An afterlife for political flops ... The AAT has been trashed and stacked with the flotsam of the Liberal Party ... Cronyism ... Peter Dutton's "Australian values" ... The defenestration of the administrative review functions of the Commonwealth ... Read more ...
Hale Spiderwoman ... 11 out of 11 ... UK Supremes on a null and void prorogation ... Judicial review of the prerogative power of the crown ... Principle of parliamentary sovereignty ... Her Maj the cypher ... Welcome back Sir Edward Coke ... Procrustes explains ... Read more ...
Transcript of the week ... A solicitor appears before a Yarraside judicial registrar ... Where's my stay? ... Waiver of court fees ... What's going on? ... It's so simple ... Give me a case ... Seeking to appeal against an order that is not a final order ... No arguable case ... The next case has been called ... Read more ...
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Drugs, money and death ... The brutality of the drug business in Columbia ... Birds of Passage ... America, the greedy satan ... Complex codes of honour ... Peace and war ... Miss Lumière reviews the spectacle ... Read more ...
Is there something amusing, Mr Foreman? ... Defamatorium ... Outburst from barrister … Solicitor suing Financial Review ... Juror looked chastened after being directly addressed by counsel during summing-up … How to handle an outburst from the bar table... Let the transcript do the talking ... From Justinian's archive, March 2012 ... Read more ...
Theodora • Thursday, August 1, 2019 Future of Law and Innovation Conference struggled with the technology ... Plentiful lunch options ... AI ... Kirby adjudicated debate on "Uberisation" of lawyers ... How to use LinkedIn ... Space law ... Techno fonts ... Lawyerly prospects when technology fails ... Justice in the era of "late capitalism" ... Theodora reports
Judges • Monday, July 29, 2019 Former NSW defamation judge and chief judge at common law dies at age 84 ... The List with Socratic case management ... Defamation exotica ... Refinement of pleadings, perhaps over-refinement ... Prodigious worker ... International criminal law ... UN criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda ... A league of his own ... Tributes from Graham Hryce, David Rolph, Justice Mark Ierace and Judge Judith Gibson
Procrustes • Sunday, July 28, 2019 How Boris Johnson peddled falsehoods all the way to Number 10 ... Perverse denunciation of European Court of Justice ruling about third-party insurance for off-road vehicles ... Beats-ups from Telegraph columnist that appeal to little Englanders ... "Undemocratic law-making" in a post-truth era ... Vnuked by the facts ... Procrustes on the case
On The Couch • Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Veteran broadcaster, foreign correspondent, columnist and acidic Twitterer is on Justinian's Couch ... A masterful wordsmith ... Tireless combatant of the Murdocracy ... Issues with refrigeration and Christian piety ... The lure of the sea and its saltiness ... T.E.F. Hughes at the urinal ... Raging against the dying of the light
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 18, 2019 A new film from the maker of Lives of Others ... Portrait of a young artist in Germany during and after the war ... Sterilisation of the "unfit" ... The aunt, the artist, the Nazi doctor and his daughter ... A romantic epic about art, love and war, reviewed by Miss Lumière