Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Former senator can't get enough litigation ... Linda Reynolds suing the Commonwealth and lawyers HWL Ebsworth over the Brittany Higgins settlement ... Claim that $2.4 million payment to former staffer affirmed Higgins' allegation ... Statement of claim ... Commonwealth Courts Portal >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... 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