Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >>
Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ...
How not to ask law 'n' order questions in the House of Commons ... More >>
Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >>
The government wants to publish the secret chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission ... If someone who is yet to be appointed gives permission ... More >>
London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >>
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Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ...
A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ...
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
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 28, 2020 The month of May brings out the best of the bench ... Shifty agency running the NDIS scheme ... Breakthrough ... The Full Feds say that a sex worker/therapist should be funded for a woman with a serious disability ... In NSW the CA makes adoption orders affecting a young Aboriginal woman ... Justice Leeming writes to her directly ... From judges' associate, Ginger Snatch
