Costs feud sends solicitor to the infirmary
Court in the Act • Sunday, March 26, 2017 Inflammatory letter lands solicitor a reprimand
Hellfire Club • Saturday, March 25, 2017 Sentencing trends
The History Boys • Thursday, March 23, 2017 The good old days of sentencing ... A decent lunch for the judge and then into court to slot some poor wretch, accompanied by plenty of self-righteous moralising ... View of the world from the leafy suburbs ... Lack of rigour ... Judicial history ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports
Lubricating the sausage factory
City Desk • Friday, March 17, 2017 Where are we with the other Royal Commission - the one on the detention of children in the Northern Territory? ... Murdoch hacks furiously critical of the commission - so it must be on the right track ... Reporting on crocodiles a top priority ... Has the legal profession been too comfortable about youth injustice in the NT? ... Daniel Ahern reports
A pop star comes to campus
Student-at-Large • Monday, March 13, 2017 Letter from Cambridge ... Rihanna does not sing ... Just a short talk to celebrate her award as Harvard's Humanitarian of the Year ... Rock star professors are pale in comparison ... Hannah Ryan reports, with a bad dose of hero worship
Hydra-headed practitioner applications
Hellfire Club • Sunday, March 12, 2017 Federal copper who stalked his former girlfriend meets himself coming around corners ... Various irreconcilable explanations in his applications for admission as a legal practitioner ... ACT one day, Queensland the next ... The naked photo ... Catherine Holmes CJ gets to the bottom of it, as explained by Sohini Mehta
Bill Hosking
On The Couch • Thursday, March 9, 2017 Public defender, judge and author Bill Hosking QC is on the couch, clutching his new book Justice Denied ... Crime and injustice is the theme ... Heroic trials recalled and brought back to life ... Some bad cops have their moment in the spotlight