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 >>
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
Wendler on Wine • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Hazel Murphy - marketing marvel for Australian wine in the UK and Europe ... Obit from Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler ... Bron Waugh became a believer ... "Chateau Chunder" rendered obsolete
Judges • Saturday, February 22, 2020 Human rights ... Sex discrimination ... Full Feds find a fresh instance of poor quality workmanship at the Circus Court ... Judge brings administration of justice into disrepute ... Six year delay leads to the wrong reasons ... Start again according to law ... Ginger Snatch reports
Around the Firms • Thursday, February 20, 2020 
Fees stoush reaches Vic Appeals ... Abolition of the Chorley exception applies to law firms acting for themselves in litigation ... Herbert Smith Freehills not entitled to recover costs in dispute over failed float of petrol distributor ... Hi-ho Silver ... Argument rejected that employed solicitors working for partners should be able to recover fees ... Solicitors on the record acting in their own cause ... Not even Bret Walker could save the day ... Stephen Murray reports
Goings On ... • Sunday, February 16, 2020 Theodora and Miss Ginger Snatch put their heads together and recall the highs and lows of 2019 ... Lawyers and the law ... Reliving the stories that tickled our fancy ... Entertaining judges ... Law shops in the frame ... Silken ones ... Courts in the act ... Bureau de Spank ... And heaps 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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