Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >>
Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ...
A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >>
Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>
Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >>
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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 ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ...
Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ...
Barely Legal • Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Freshly minted from university ... Associateship beckons ... Interim job bailing water out of the leaky parole boat ... Delays and judicial reviews ... Barely Legal finds out about stuff never taught at university
Artemus Jones • Sunday, May 23, 2021 Dyer v Chrysanthou ... Porter stands by his brief as case gets bogged in interlocutory disputes ... Trouble for client when the lawyers become the main story ... Expense and delay do not assist Porter ... "Infection" of the legal team ... September trial date looking wobbly ... Defamation trial could clash with the electoral cycle ... Observations from Artemus Jones
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Christian's defamation campaign has been sidetracked ... Now he's a respondent fighting to keep one of his barristers on the ticket ... Risk of misuse of confidential information ... Discovery ordered ... Who told others of concerns about potential conflict? ... Layer upon layer of contention before we get to D-Day
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, May 19, 2021 NCAT hands out paltry penalty for "vile" tirade ... Distressing assault in Taree ... Vilification delivered from private property but held to be a "public act" ... Adverse psychological effect on Aboriginal elder ... No order for an apology because it would not be "sincere" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Wednesday, May 19, 2021 What's going on with law and justice in Hong Kong ... Large number of accused in democracy clamp-down ... Special judges who accept subservient role ... Preliminary election regarded as subversion ... Legislative Council expected to be "patriotic" ... Newspaper proprietor in prison ... Text books being re-written ... Exodus accelerates ... From Our Man Clinging On In Hong Kong
Books • Friday, May 14, 2021 Insights into the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Towards a More Perfect Union ... The great sex discrimination abolitionist ... A supreme intellect at work ... Braham Dabscheck reviews a collection of RGB's speeches and key cases ... Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue
