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 >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 28, 2020 The month of May brings out the best of the bench ... Shifty agency running the NDIS scheme ... Breakthrough ... The Full Feds say that a sex worker/therapist should be funded for a woman with a serious disability ... In NSW the CA makes adoption orders affecting a young Aboriginal woman ... Justice Leeming writes to her directly ... From judges' associate, Ginger Snatch
Court in the Act • Monday, May 25, 2020 What has been the fate of open justice during a time of closed courts? ... Remote access for reporters ... Technical issues ... Costumes and clothes ... Freezing video links ... Wrong names ... Twiddling of thumbs ... Smooth operators at the Fed ... Nail bars, beauty salons and courts slowly open their doors, yet e-justice is here to stay ... Janek Drevikovsky explores
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 20, 2020 SCOTUS tussle over congressional subpoenas for Trump's financial records ... Presidential immunity rejected in Nixon and Clinton cases ... Republicans want a compliant Supreme Court ... Yet, POTUS not doing well in the lower courts ... Attorney General's political manipulation of the judiciary ... Alarms and diversions for the election... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Court in the Act • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 A city in semi-lockdown grieves for big swinging solicitor ... Costs battle against former client goes down the gurgler ... Conflict of interest ... Work under retainer adverse to clients interests ... Unsanitisable activities ... Solicitors expected to honour their word ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Striking off ... Francis Burt alumnus sent packing ... Murder and defamation trials followed by disciplinary proceedings ... A gruelling 13-year grind through the courts ... The final lap uncontested ... Wife illegally recorded ... No legal professional privilege ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Janek Drevikovsky explains
Obit • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 The former NSW Supreme Court defamation judge David Levine died on May 11 at the age of 75 ... The Gazette pays tribute to him with a collection of memories from friends and colleagues ... Contributions from Tom Blackburn SC, Richard Coleman, Judith White, Judge Judith Gibson, Peter Semmler QC, Robyn Ayres, Sophie Dawson and Jim Micallef
Goings On ... • Thursday, May 14, 2020 Cluster news ... Government panel firms - who got what ... CJ v AG - further Torrenside tensions ... Entrapping hookers ... New broom at the Federal Court ... Court's own breach of the Migration Act ... Pre-virus hand-washing advice from Hobart ... Fresh entry in Hamill J's catalogue of catchwords and citations ... Theodora reports
Court in the Act • Monday, May 11, 2020 Torts ... Justice Ian Harrison throws out intimidating solicitor's malicious prosecution case and awards damages to former client ... Client sexually assaulted by her lawyer ... Who to believe ... Poisonous relationships ... Unstructured and discursive submissions ... Barrister at sea ... Alan Zheng on the case
Obit • Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Richard Ackland reflects, far too briefly, on the life of Philip Selth ... Former executive director of the NSW Bar Association ... Networker extraordinaire ... Historian, administrator and consumer of Japanese food ... An unexpected friendship