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 ...
Artemus Jones • Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Dyson's demise ... Fresh developments ... Civil and criminal cases in the wind ... AG says it's up to the High Court to handle any demand for compensation ... Field day for trade unions ... What was he thinking? ... Seismic social changes passed unnoticed ... Dangers lie in wait for Heydon's intellectual legacy ... Artemus Jones comments
Judges • Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Perram J in top form ... Cooking on the Central Coast ... Employment law ... Missing wages ... Exemplary amateur conduct called into question ... Assistance from a non-practitioner ... Unhelpful ... Beastly threats ... Small case, big fry ... Remarks sent to the Law Society ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Goings On ..., Theodora • Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Law shop disquiet over pay and leave during the plague ... Other shops pressing galley slaves for an early return to work ... Homework not up to scratch ... On tap for pressing matters ... Street assemblies in court ... Revisiting 1970s student radicalism ... The Chestnut reappears ... Theodora reports
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, June 12, 2020 Newsroom numbness ... The Australian takes a misguided swipe at counsel assisting ... Twitter trawl ... Humour calamity ... Payback for contempt threat against loose-cannon hack ... Lord Eldon saddles-up for fresh student fight ... Famous Brisbane brief in fresh robes ... Theodora reports
Polly Peck • Friday, June 5, 2020 Latest spying update ... Legislation for International Production Orders ... Spooks picking through your data held on foreign servers ... Bad news for public interest and human rights organisations, not to mention reptiles of the media and their sources ... Coalition cronies on the AAT can sign off IPOs ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on the wider scope for Washington's regime of global spying
Procrustes • Friday, June 5, 2020 Historian Jenny Hocking bursts into Kerr's secret locker ... High Court gives her the key ... The Archives Act and Commonwealth records ... David Szmitkowski's arrangement with the Archives ... Side agreement with the Palace ... Failed attempt to make agreements outside the terms of the legislation ... Office holders as trustees of the public ... Procrustes explains the latest big decision from the High & Mighty
Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Vic Appeals says that "infelicitous" remarks from the trial judge were not unfair ... Trial judge is "not trying to be unhelpful", yet undermines defence counsel ... Murder case where the jury sees the judge poo-poo the defence ... Failure to be circumspect ... Summing-up miscarries the entire show ... Court orders another round ... Ginger Snatch reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, May 29, 2020 Miss Lumière's guide to eight of the best and two of the worst on a screen near you ... The not-so idiot box ... Documentaries, drama, politics, sex ... From Lee Miller to Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein ... The human experience in its many shades
