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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Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... More >>
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 >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
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 >>
Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >>
Bar Talk • Tuesday, March 31, 2020 The "independent" bar goes cap-in-hand to the government ... Game's up ... One dissenting voice above the parapet ... Trying to prop-up the chambers working model ... Turnover of bar staff ... NSW Law Society in upheaval as a cabal seeks to change the constitution and sideline dissenting voices ... Theodora reports
Artemus Jones • Thursday, March 19, 2020 Hilary Penfold's vintage from 2011 ... Dry and too much oak ... Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered ... Respondent shot by the coppers ... Damages judgment ... Overly long and detailed reasons ... Riddled with errors ... Undermining public confidence in the judiciary ... Artemus Jones reprises
Around the Firms • Thursday, March 19, 2020 The role political opinions may or may not play in sacking a consultant to a major law shop ... Insubordination and being rude about a client ... Close connection to expressing a political opinion ... Fair Work Act ... Acceptable to communicate views to anyone but the media ... Martinet ... Motivations ... Stephen Murray reports
Artemus Jones • Monday, March 16, 2020 Hilary term ... Another judgment from retired ACT judge Hilary Penfold ... Preposterous delay of nearly six years creates more problems for the litigants ... Overburdened judgment writing style ... Reproduction of vast tracks of submissions ... Unclear reasoning ... Lavish dinner proposed by Artemus Jones
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
