Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>
The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... Read more >>
Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >>
Goings On ..., Theodora • Wednesday, July 27, 2022 NSW government goes softly-softly on anti-corruption ... AG from a crooked era nominated for chief commissioner ... South Australian magistrate loses conduct appeal ... Red wine snifters to raise funds for Queensland legal aid ... President of Vic Appeals hangs up his wig with a shot at mandatory sentencing ... Theodora reports
City Desk • Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Deficiencies of heavy-handed anti-terror laws ... Police mismanagement and failure to comply ... Covert search warrants ... Preventative detention orders ... Major shake up for continuing detention orders ... Citizenship stripping laws get scrambled ... Max Shanahan dives into the quagmire
Judges • Thursday, July 14, 2022 Unlike the nation as a whole, Australia's judiciary is predominantly pale and male ... Composition of courts unrepresentative of the people they serve ... The barristers' pool culturally homogenous ... Coalition's poor record of diverse cultural and gender Federal Court appointments ... Joseph Friedman calls for change
City Desk • Thursday, July 14, 2022 Q & A about Julian Assange with Greg Barns SC, adviser to the Australian Assange Campaign ... Charges ... Journalism ... Espionage Act ... First Amendment ... Extradition decision and the prospects of appeal ... Flight risk ... More from Wikileaks
Law & Justice • Friday, July 8, 2022 Dire legal aid conditions bring on strikes by criminal briefs in the Old Dart ... Barristers reporting incomes below the minimum wage ... Delays in payments ... Massive exodus from the profession ... Magic Circle firms booming and bloated, while criminal justice practitioners go into debt ... Misconduct charges threatened by the LCJ ... The decay in legal aid outlined by Max Shanahan
Law & Justice • Thursday, July 7, 2022 Lawn Order ... Governments take on environmentalists ... Looking after workers by prosecuting them ... Keeping everyone "safe" ... Harsh new measures ... Unintended consequences ... Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, and UK ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest crack-downs on protesters