Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >>
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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >>
Bar Talk • Monday, August 3, 2020 UPDATE ...Shining light of the Yarraside bar 'n' grill has withdrawn his defence to overcharging allegations in the Banksia Securities class action ... Conceded judgment should be made against him and that it is appropriate he be struck from the jam roll ... Fee doctoring on an industrial scale ... Transcript ... Contradictor's compilation of misdeeds ... Ginger Snatch reports
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, July 31, 2020 The Tamil's legal affairs section has closed-up shop, but he's still scribbling for The Australian as a contributor ... Lucky us ... Paid private tours of the courts and cosy chats with judges organised by Robin and his Merry Men ... Rule of law gets a libertarian makeover ... Theodora reports
Leverhulme • Wednesday, July 29, 2020 People in the Old Dart struggle to get to grips with pandemic life ... Criminal barristers are on the skids ... Pub etiquette has changed ... Try ordering a pint ... Compulsory masks in shops ... Leverhulme meets trouble in the bakery ... Righteous zealots take the high ground ... Crisis report
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Around the Firms • Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Full Feds fed-up to the back teeth ... Eldon's submissions scotched ... Appeal from harassing conveyancer tossed out ... Sexual harassment that was not meant to be sexual ... Solicitor in his underwear ... Loitering in female employee's bedroom ... Hugs ... Damages should have been greater ... An elephant in love ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Around the Firms • Monday, July 27, 2020 UPDATE ... Constitutional deconstruction ... The anti-mask, no jabs brigade looks to the outer reaches of the law for support ... Freedom-loving conspiracy theorists fighting tyranny and trolls ... GoFundMe's cash sprinkler ... Bill Gates to blame ... Alan Zheng reports from the frontline
Barely Legal • Saturday, July 25, 2020 Collapse of the world order ... Yet, the annual round of law firm clerkship applications proceeds unabated ... Zoomathons without tasty sandwiches ... The pitches ... The critical questions ... The psychometric tests ... The online interviews ... Barely Legal jumps through hoops to land a poorly paid plum job
Polly Peck • Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Kerr's correspondence with the Palace on the Loans Affair prosecution ... Shifting claims of Crown privilege ... Resignation of attorney general Ellicott ... The GG away at the opera when the executive council agreed to raise $4 billion in petrodollars ... The Queen didn't much like Alan Reid's unbalanced opinions ... Send me another book, please ... Kerr's views on Neville Wran ... Stephen Murray delves into remote corners of the Palace Letters