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 >>
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