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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FCA ... Jewish lobbists successful in s.18C case against an Islamic preacher ... Distinction between disparagement of Zionists and Jews as a whole ... "To blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic" ... Judgment Summary >>
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 >>
Hellfire Club • Friday, March 13, 2020 Lawyer spankings resume after jurisdictional collapse ... NCAT picks-up disciplinary cases where it left off ... Helpful legislative amendments to the rescue ... Wollongong solicitor ignored missives from the Law Society ... Compliance required before trading ticket reissued ... Poverty ... Despair ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Bigotry Bulletin • Thursday, March 12, 2020 The attorney general's draft religious discrimination legislation ... A patchwork of contradictory provisions ... Stealing one person's protections for the benefit of others ... Mess of pottage ... Shield and sword ... Statements of religious belief ... Vilification ... Who says Christians are persecuted? ... Nathan Twibill picks through the morass
Court in the Act • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Pell v The Queen ... Cardinal's High Court appeal ... Written submissions weighed by Alan Zheng ... Pell says the jury's verdict was unreasonable ... Factual inconsistencies ... Alibi evidence ... Parting of the robes ... Onus and standard of proof ... Crown says the threshold for overturning a jury verdict is high ... Limited role for appeal judges
Procrustes • Friday, March 6, 2020 Misguided furore from the Murdocracy over the High Court's decision in the Aboriginal "aliens" case ... The court had been down the "birth" track before - in 1908 ... "Belonging" that is so strong that it can't be removed ... Special legislation to ring-fence Indigenous intrusion into mining and other "developments" ... Sprorts and discretionary handouts ... Plus ça change ... Paws stuck in the honey jar ... Procrustes at large
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, March 6, 2020 Trump running wild following the burlesque of his impeachment trial ... Retribution underway ... Regulatory bodies left inoperable ... Judges attacked ... Corruption rife - and no consequences ... Presidential pardons ... Political meddling in Roger Stone's trial ... SCOTUS to decide discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs ... A Supreme Court for the rich ... Roger Fitch on the case
Court in the Act • Thursday, March 5, 2020 The whacky world of "Sovereign Citizens" ... Conspiracy theorists and God's chosen few join forces to challenge authority ... Principles and precedents defenestrated as the Constitution and the common law get a psychedelic varnish ... Judges in the "trustee position" ... Alan Zheng investigates
Environment • Tuesday, March 3, 2020 UK Court of Appeal decision to block third runway at Heathrow ... Failure to take account of Paris Accord commitments ... Is the climate enthusiasm premature? ... Planning requirements foremost ... Paris Accord and domestic policy ... Implications for Australia ... Emissions and the "public interest" ... Nathan Twibill comments
On The Couch • Friday, February 28, 2020 On The Couch with Jacko ... Failure to sing God Save the King ... Winning cases that should be won ... The role of money ... Military inclinations ... Changing role of the High Court ... Wither the bar? ... And more
Top End trauma
Conduct unbecoming ... Judicial officer who is a repeat offender ... Internal investigations ... Counselling .. No evident improvement in behaviour ... "Lapses in demeanour" ... Home spun NT Judicial Commission ... From John Lawrence SC in Darwin
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