Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... 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Bar Talk • Monday, August 3, 2020 UPDATE ...Shining light of the Yarraside bar 'n' grill has withdrawn his defence to overcharging allegations in the Banksia Securities class action ...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