Goat stew ... Clandestine footage of slaughterhouse ... Full Feds gives copyright on constructive trust to goat butchery business ... Allegations of animal cruelty ignored ... Uncertainty for future public interest cases ... Jackboots stomps ... FCA roundsman Phillip Cake reports ... 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 >>
Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >>
Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
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News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >>
The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >>
Letter from Rome • Monday, April 28, 2025 Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome
Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference
Foreign correspondence • Wednesday, April 23, 2025 News from the 51st State ... Conservatives on law 'n' blitz ... Separation of powers ... Hot issues for the election ... The "notwithstanding clause" ... Court dumps Musk and his X ... Anti-Trump fever sweeps the nation ... From Maple Bloom
Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Goings On ... • Thursday, April 17, 2025 Geoffrey Nettle and Gary Hevey back to do the Robobedt corruption inquiry ... Whopping fees for nine months in the saddle ... Cleaning up after Major Gen. Brereton's messy conflicts ... The Lehrmann litigation factory in full production as key players rush for reputation repair ... Enough is enough ... Overlooked silken applicant David Smallbone wants to snitch Albo's seat ... An Easter contribution from our colleagues at 500Words.com.au
Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, April 6, 2025 Mobster rule ... Threats and blackmail ... Civil society on the edge ... Tariffs and crashing markets are one thing ... There are also attacks on the media, lawyers, universities, foreign students, and so-called "enemy aliens" ... Roger Fitch files from a traumatised Washington
Corruption, Court in the Act • Friday, April 4, 2025 Fly in the ointment ... Cossack's judicial review sidetracked ... Speaker of the Toy Town Legislative Assembly says the Integrity Commission's report is a "proceeding in parliament" and cannot be impeached ... In another challenge to the commission last month the Speaker given leave to be heard as an amicus ... From the Gazette of Law & Journalism
London Calling • Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty