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 ...
Environment • Tuesday, March 3, 2020 UK Court of Appeal decision to block third runway at Heathrow ... Failure to take account of Paris Accord commitments ... Is the climate enthusiasm premature? ... Planning requirements foremost ... Paris Accord and domestic policy ... Implications for Australia ... Emissions and the "public interest" ... Nathan Twibill comments
On The Couch • Friday, February 28, 2020 On The Couch with Jacko ... Failure to sing God Save the King ... Winning cases that should be won ... The role of money ... Military inclinations ... Changing role of the High Court ... Wither the bar? ... And more
Wendler on Wine • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Hazel Murphy - marketing marvel for Australian wine in the UK and Europe ... Obit from Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler ... Bron Waugh became a believer ... "Chateau Chunder" rendered obsolete
Judges • Saturday, February 22, 2020 Human rights ... Sex discrimination ... Full Feds find a fresh instance of poor quality workmanship at the Circus Court ... Judge brings administration of justice into disrepute ... Six year delay leads to the wrong reasons ... Start again according to law ... Ginger Snatch reports
Around the Firms • Thursday, February 20, 2020 
Fees stoush reaches Vic Appeals ... Abolition of the Chorley exception applies to law firms acting for themselves in litigation ... Herbert Smith Freehills not entitled to recover costs in dispute over failed float of petrol distributor ... Hi-ho Silver ... Argument rejected that employed solicitors working for partners should be able to recover fees ... Solicitors on the record acting in their own cause ... Not even Bret Walker could save the day ... Stephen Murray reports
Goings On ... • Sunday, February 16, 2020 Theodora and Miss Ginger Snatch put their heads together and recall the highs and lows of 2019 ... Lawyers and the law ... Reliving the stories that tickled our fancy ... Entertaining judges ... Law shops in the frame ... Silken ones ... Courts in the act ... Bureau de Spank ... And heaps more
Polly Peck • Thursday, February 13, 2020 Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Artemus Jones • Wednesday, February 12, 2020 
The High Court grapples with the First Australians as aliens ... Legal minefield ... No joint judgments here ... Blood, country and belonging ... The unique position of Aboriginal Australians ... Section 51 ... Mabo (No 2) ... Powerful judgments ... Culture warriors on the ramparts ... Artemus Jones analyses each of the seven judgments
Top End trauma
Conduct unbecoming ... Judicial officer who is a repeat offender ... Internal investigations ... Counselling .. No evident improvement in behaviour ... "Lapses in demeanour" ... Home spun NT Judicial Commission ... From John Lawrence SC in Darwin
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