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 >>
"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... 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 >>
Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ... Read more >>
Buffalo Bruce • Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Top End capers ... NT judge says she was defamed by silk in an article in which she wasn't named ... Article said to be indefensible ... Judge threatens to take it further ... History of bad blood ... Journalist complains about ripe language from barrister ... Another first ... Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin
Law & Justice • Monday, March 29, 2021 Tories meddling with the wheels of justice ... Johnson government wants to bring the Supreme Court to heel ... Too much "judicial activism" ... Clamping down on judicial reviews of administrative decisions ... Increased statutory senility ... Lord Chancellor has strange thoughts about linchpins ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Artemus Jones • Monday, March 22, 2021 Porter v ABC and Louise Milligan ... Applicant's pleadings are a mess and will need considerable work to make the grade ... Complexities on identification ... Upper case imputations do not arise ... Truth the primary defence ... Maybe QP as well ... Difficulties for the ABC ... Surprise counsel selection ... Artemus Jones reads the tea leaves
Procrustes • Friday, March 19, 2021 Salmond and Sturgeon thrashing around in hot water ... Sex scandal catches former and current First Ministers on the hook ... Judicial review ... Criminal trial ... Parliamentary review on how harassment complaints were handled ... Skewering political adversaries ... Procrustes gives us three lessons