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 >>
Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... 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 >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... 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 ... Read more >>
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Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... 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 • Sunday, August 1, 2021 Window into a weird world ... Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers ... Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information ... Harassment ... Media lawyers at 10 paces ... Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks ... Crowdfunding for High Court challenge ... Whether funds held in trust ... Alan Zheng reporting
Barely Legal • Saturday, July 31, 2021 Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line
Hellfire Club • Friday, July 30, 2021 Suppression order sought but not granted ... Legal Services Commissioner's jurisdictional drama ... Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal ... Application to suppress details rejected ... Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed ... Feelings of despair ... Less work ... Snubbed ... Huge expense ... Law Reform Commission ... Alan Zheng reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 29, 2021 In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, July 23, 2021 Porsche driving head of equity being fitted for CJ robes ... Willy or won't he? - Alstergren favoured for Chuckles' job ... The Christian's costly litigation spree ... Biased judges survey ... Wot's going on at the NSW solicitors' society? ... Coincidental political allies appointed to IR gig ... Sharks salute sharks ... Theodora with Goings On
Court in the Act • Friday, July 23, 2021 Back to pokey for Eddie Obeid ... A fresh experience awaits Moses ... Decades of villainy ... Leading NSW crime figures slotted ... Vindication for ICAC's findings and rule of law ... Despair for The Tamil ... Obeid Snr cast as a "political prisoner" ... Time to crank-up the Free Eddie campaign
Judges • Wednesday, July 21, 2021 UPDATE ... Blunders by inexperienced Family Court judge ... Need for dispatch to reeducation camp ... Friends in high places ... Precedent ignored ... Edward Longshanks no help ... Lengthy judgments with irrelevant citations ... "Odd" ... George Pell referenced ... "Perplexing" ... Ginger Snatch reports
On The Couch • Friday, July 16, 2021 A new book on H.V Evatt, the lawyer, judge and politician, from author and journalist Gideon Haigh ... Exploration of Evatt's dissent in the great nervous shock case Chester v Council of the Waverley Municipality ... What on earth were the other High Court judges thinking? ... Great turning points in law, politics and history ... With some fine attitudes we find Gideon Haigh on Justinian's Couch