Innovations in fee collection ... Barrister lightly spanked for sending disturbing fee threat to former clients ... "See what happens if you don't pay your bills" ... File leverage ... Agreement not to complain in exchange for the file ... NCAT bares its gums ... Read more ...
Do nothing in the new utopia ... Policy vacuums ... Private sector leaders are filling voids created by sleepwalking politicians ... Voice to parliament and global warming left in the cold - which, somehow, gets us to the casualisation of the workforce, particularly at universities ... Fly-in, fly-out law school lecturers ... Full Federal Court wrestles with a "casual employee" ... Read more ...
Time to act on Magnitsky ... Where's our Magnitsky Act? ... An effective way of dealing with corrupt individuals who violate human rights ... Lapsed Bill in the Commonwealth parliament ... The legacy of Russia's abuse of power and the calculated killing of state enemies ... Read more ...
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David Hunt remembered ... Former NSW defamation judge and chief judge at common law ...The List with Socratic case management ... Defamation exotica ... Refinement of pleadings, perhaps over-refinement ... Prodigious worker ... International criminal law ... Tributes from Graham Hryce, David Rolph, Justice Mark Ierace and Judge Judith Gibson ... Read more ...
Sentencing terror ... Fabulous sentencing transcript from County Court, Victoria ... Judge James Montgomery and counsel wrestle with the dates and the years ... Pythonesque proceedings ... Court reporter struggles to keep up ... Tears to the eyes ... From the archive, June 2012 ... Read more ...
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, July 3, 2019 US Supreme Court washes its hands of election rigging ... Redistricting ... Trump lawlessness ... The president losing droves of court cases ... Financial irregularities ... Cosmetic inquiries guarantee that no one is responsible for war crimes ... Persecution of migrant children ... Roger Fitch reporting from Washington
Court in the Act • Friday, June 7, 2019 Writing reports for the family courts ... Private consultants and their advice in custody disputes ... Parenting plans and abused children ... Contentious recommendations which sway courts with limited resources ... Lack of alternative "independent" advice ... Harrowing submission to parliamentary inquiry alleging misplaced professional advice about child abuse ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Around the Firms • Monday, June 3, 2019 He thought it was romance ... She believed it was sexual harassment ... Sal Vasta gets to work on law firm principal's over-wrought advances ... $170,000 awarded to female solicitor trapped at Bangelow law shop with predatory pest ... The perils of trying to stop smoking ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Around the Firms • Friday, May 31, 2019 Piper Alderman's kitchen sink drama ... Who's bullying whom? ... Injunction preventing meeting to sack property partner discharged ... Human rights complaint against law shop still on foot ... The workplace and women lawyers ... Allegations at 10 paces ... Insulting emails ... The works
Wendler on Wine • Thursday, May 30, 2019 Distress that Australia's great wine commentator and educator celebrated his birthday with a selection of French wines ... Born in the wrong year ... Discrimination ... What's wrong with local wines for a well-deserved celebratory toast? ... Gabriel Wendler stirs up a storm in a wine glass ... Epistle to a Burgundian