Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... 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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FCA ... Jewish lobbists successful in s.18C case against an Islamic preacher ... Distinction between disparagement of Zionists and Jews as a whole ... "To blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic" ... Judgment Summary >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
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Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
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
Court in the Act • Saturday, July 18, 2020 Apple Isle confusion over pleadings in a negligence claim ... The potting machine out of action after a power surge ... Poles and wires ... How much pleading is necessary? ... Only the facts, not the legal arguments ... The Judicature Act ... The common law in play ... The Map ... Janek Drevikovsky reveals all
Court in the Act • Friday, July 17, 2020 MH17 class action ... Plane shot down over Ukraine ... Non-resident cannot sue under Montreal Convention ... Family should not have been barred from the proceedings ... Failure to inform ... Insouciance ... Conduct of lawyers fell "well short" of their obligations ... Show cause why the lawyers should not pay the appellants' costs ... Mea Culpa ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
City Desk • Friday, July 17, 2020 Bottled Law ... Students and tech whizzes design life in the law of tomorrow ... NewLaw versus BigLaw ... Arming and training young lawyers with tech skills ... Removing the slog and having a better life ... From our tech rounds-person, Wallace Cloud
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, July 15, 2020 SCOTUS rules on Electoral College voting ... Sexual identity and civil rights ... Native-American reservations ... Dreamers ... Presidential tax records ... The power of theocrats and churches ... Some helpful rulings, others less so ... Justice Department habitually supporting Trump's personal battles in court ... Curious belief that a mentally unfit president could be reelected ... Maybe it is possible ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Judges • Friday, July 10, 2020 Latest from Circus Side ... Sal Vasta's written judgment recast from the original oral version ... Threat of imprisonment hits the cutting room floor ... Family Court appeal judges regret having to admonish the Circus judge ... Sigh ... Another burdensome remitted hearing ... Janek Drevikovsky reports