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 >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... 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 >>
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Zeitgeist litigation ... 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 ... Read more >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 6, 2021 The Peter Ridd case hits the High Court ... James Cook University's termination of an academic's employment ... The freedom to say whatever you like ... Free speech and all that ... Being beastly about other academics ... Promoting views contrary to mainstream science ... Hero of the climate deniers ... Untangling the Code of Conduct and the Enterprise Agreement ... Anna Kretowicz reports
Goings On ..., Polly Peck, Theodora • Friday, April 30, 2021 No comment on whether NSW lawyers are police sources ... Schmo's mate the Police Commissioner has solved the Porter case, once and for all ... Attorney General adopts multiple positions on the Walama Court ... Rule of Law Institute planning to expose schoolies to fresh ideas about the courts ... Slump on coronial activities ... Theodora lays on her hands
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, April 30, 2021 The FBI's obsession with Strange Fruit ... Music from the devil ... War Against Drugs ... Reluctance to give up lynching ... Un-American activities ... All that jazz ... Hoover on the case ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Biden moves well to the left of Obama and the Clintons ... Attorney General Merrick Garland starts repair job at the Department of Justice ... Weeding out the Trump "burrowers" ... Implications for Guantánamo "war prisoners" in light of Afghanistan withdrawal ... Republicans push ahead with electoral rorts ... More Trump corruption emerging ... Roger Fitch's letter from America
Hellfire Club • Monday, April 26, 2021 Elderly barrister out of tune with contemporary mores ... Left without a chair when the music stopped ... Spanked for sexual harassment of a junior female ... Confusion about "comforting gesture" ... Flippant remarks ... Arm around shoulder ... Unfunny jokes ... Alan Zheng reports
Polly Peck • Monday, April 19, 2021 Sexual harassment allegations from the cloacal underbelly of One Nation ... Former senator suing P. Hanson ... Former staffer also suing over alleged sexual harassment by ex-senator ... Deed of release - Commonwealth not liable ... Another scarifying experience of political life ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case