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 • Thursday, March 19, 2020 Hilary Penfold's vintage from 2011 ... Dry and too much oak ... Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered ... Respondent shot by the coppers ... Damages judgment ... Overly long and detailed reasons ... Riddled with errors ... Undermining public confidence in the judiciary ... Artemus Jones reprises
Around the Firms • Thursday, March 19, 2020 The role political opinions may or may not play in sacking a consultant to a major law shop ... Insubordination and being rude about a client ... Close connection to expressing a political opinion ... Fair Work Act ... Acceptable to communicate views to anyone but the media ... Martinet ... Motivations ... Stephen Murray reports
Artemus Jones • Monday, March 16, 2020 Hilary term ... Another judgment from retired ACT judge Hilary Penfold ... Preposterous delay of nearly six years creates more problems for the litigants ... Overburdened judgment writing style ... Reproduction of vast tracks of submissions ... Unclear reasoning ... Lavish dinner proposed by Artemus Jones
Hellfire Club • Friday, March 13, 2020 Lawyer spankings resume after jurisdictional collapse ... NCAT picks-up disciplinary cases where it left off ... Helpful legislative amendments to the rescue ... Wollongong solicitor ignored missives from the Law Society ... Compliance required before trading ticket reissued ... Poverty ... Despair ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Bigotry Bulletin • Thursday, March 12, 2020 The attorney general's draft religious discrimination legislation ... A patchwork of contradictory provisions ... Stealing one person's protections for the benefit of others ... Mess of pottage ... Shield and sword ... Statements of religious belief ... Vilification ... Who says Christians are persecuted? ... Nathan Twibill picks through the morass
Court in the Act • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Pell v The Queen ... Cardinal's High Court appeal ... Written submissions weighed by Alan Zheng ... Pell says the jury's verdict was unreasonable ... Factual inconsistencies ... Alibi evidence ... Parting of the robes ... Onus and standard of proof ... Crown says the threshold for overturning a jury verdict is high ... Limited role for appeal judges
Procrustes • Friday, March 6, 2020 Misguided furore from the Murdocracy over the High Court's decision in the Aboriginal "aliens" case ... The court had been down the "birth" track before - in 1908 ... "Belonging" that is so strong that it can't be removed ... Special legislation to ring-fence Indigenous intrusion into mining and other "developments" ... Sprorts and discretionary handouts ... Plus ça change ... Paws stuck in the honey jar ... Procrustes at large
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, March 6, 2020 Trump running wild following the burlesque of his impeachment trial ... Retribution underway ... Regulatory bodies left inoperable ... Judges attacked ... Corruption rife - and no consequences ... Presidential pardons ... Political meddling in Roger Stone's trial ... SCOTUS to decide discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs ... A Supreme Court for the rich ... Roger Fitch on the case
Court in the Act • Thursday, March 5, 2020 The whacky world of "Sovereign Citizens" ... Conspiracy theorists and God's chosen few join forces to challenge authority ... Principles and precedents defenestrated as the Constitution and the common law get a psychedelic varnish ... Judges in the "trustee position" ... Alan Zheng investigates
