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 >>
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
Procrustes • Friday, July 10, 2020 The purges of Savonarola ... The Lubyanka ... Lt James Cook ... Fremantle Park ... Magdalene College ... Procrustes takes us on an historical magic carpet ride ... Statues and their threat to peace, order and good government ... How to manage dissension caused by images in bronze and stone
Judges • Thursday, July 9, 2020 The ashes of Dyson Heydon's standing scattered far and wide ... We're ashamed ... Tally of the catastrophe ... Retreat to the club ... No more blind eyes ... Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves ... Character, law, and judging ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports
Polly Peck • Friday, July 3, 2020 Bulletin from the Bear-Pit ... Recasting the top job at LECC ... Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons ... Crime and insanity ... Tendency evidence gets tweaked ... Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission ... Answers on notice ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street