The Comey Rule



Streaming now ... Based on the former FBI director's book ... An insight into America's trauma ... A president hell-bent on suborning the bureau to his will ... A mafioso in the White House ... Hillary's emails and the 2016 election ... The Russia investigation ... Everyone is compromised ... Miss Lumière dips her toe into the swamp
Unjust, slow and expensive


Law Society of NSW lashed by Court of Appeal ... Failure to ensure just, quick and cheap litigation ... Another jurisdictional calamity ... Earlier decision not brought to the attention of NCAT ... Requirement for model litigant ... Application for suppression order rejected ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Trumplandia


The Reichstag is burning ... Delegitimising an election ... Covid-ridden presidential candidate ... Trump's debts pose security problems ... Stacking the Supreme Court ... An unhinged assault on the Affordable Care Act ... Judicial showdown looms ... Latest report from Roger Fitch in Washington
Masterful Sanderson


Requiem for a company ... Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full
Glue sticks


Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, et al, eat their words as they scramble to replace RBG ... Voters cast aside ... Ungluing the institutions of government ... Border wars in Oz and the meaning of s.92 ... Law making by ministerial fiat ... Old buffers come to the party ... Procrustes opines
Silken wannabes


At last ... The steel box at the bottom of the sea has been burst open and the names of the 2020 NSW silk applicants have floated to the surface, where they bob around waiting for the sharks ... Here they are ... Old favourites aplenty ... Bar's difficulty with transparency ... Silk purse ... Sow's ear
Witch Hunt



Questioning a dodgy invoice ... Corruption unravelled at the heart of Norwegian politics, law and the media ... Miss Lumière watches and reviews the eight part SBS series Heksejakt (Witch Hunt) ... Inspired by events in the real world ... Whistleblowing at its most courageous