Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... 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 >>
City Desk • Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Contagion ... NSW selling the land titles registry to private operators ... Other states like the idea ... A fortune awaits successful tenderers ... Milking critical infrastructure ... ASIC company database also on the block ... Politicians ignore ACCC warning about mismanaged privatisations
Court in the Act • Tuesday, September 27, 2016 The never ending Forster-Voyager litigation ... On and on it grinds ... Latest wrap from Justin Pen ... The Victoria solicitor has a partial win and two losses ... Receivers recover 70 percent of their costs ... Legal Services Board one step further along the road to strike-off case
Critics Corner • Monday, September 26, 2016 Searching for the worthwhile bits in Chris Mitchell's book Making Headlines ... Weird editor criticises weird politicians ... Lecture on "quality journalism" from a News Corp editor whose paper never turned a decent profit ... Graham Hryce's review
Court in the Act • Friday, September 23, 2016 Ghost of Keddies ... Phoenix-type arrangement ... While clients are suing for breach of contract the principal puts one law firm into liquidation and recommences business with a new entity ... Supreme Court orders principal to compensate clients for overcharging ... Third party costs order ... Justin Pen reports
Polly Peck • Thursday, September 22, 2016 Attorney General Brandis fudges the facts about consultations with the Solicitor General ... The truth withheld from parliamentary statement tabled by the AG ... Brandis taking control of the process by which the SG provides opinions to ministers, departments and agencies on questions of law ... Senate inquiry into AG's actions and the truthfulness of his statements
Judges, Polly Peck • Friday, September 16, 2016 Secret documents into allegations against former High Court Justice Lionel Murphy could be available after September 25 ... Statutory embargo to end shortly ... Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into behaviour of Justice Murphy ... Release of documents now subject to written authority of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Reps ... Last vestige of suppressed information is nigh
Barely Legal • Friday, September 16, 2016 Barely Legal in a legal workplace ... The pattern of behaviour that faces inductees ... Repetition and application ... Respect beckons
Roger Fitch • Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Voting in Republican states is a daunting ordeal ... Staff-to-prisoner ratio at Guantánamo stands at 33:1 ... Finding new jurisdiction for a war crime ... The TPP - a charter allowing badly behaved US companies to behave badly in other countries ... Star Chambers staffed by corporate lawyers ... Roger Fitch rails against "free trade" initiatives