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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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 >>
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
Miss Lumière • Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Documentaries and TV series ... Ten favourites hand-picked by Miss Lumière ... Lawyers, crime, trials and injustice ... Pithy analysis ... DVDs and streaming by the mile ... Months of worthwhile top-level distraction on the box
Polly Peck • Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Anomalies, inconsistencies and unfairness in the JobKeeper scheme ... How come full-time workers will be worse off than casuals and part-timers? ... Treasurer Frydenberg won't explain ... What's not to like when subsidies for some are higher than the usual paypacket? ... No justification for a flat-rate payment structure ... Alternate schemes in NZ and Canada ... Nathan Twibill analyses the government's perverse distortion of pay and work
Polly Peck • Thursday, April 23, 2020 The new COVID-19 tracker is under the auspices of Minister Stuart Robert ... What could go wrong? ... Problems with the proposed app ... Prying police forbidden ... How it works ... Hacking is inevitable ... A decentralised model would be less of a threat to privacy ... Centralised server would be a vehicle for mass surveillance ... The key issues clarified by Janek Drevikovsky