Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >>
Polly Peck • Thursday, February 13, 2020 Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Artemus Jones • Wednesday, February 12, 2020 
The High Court grapples with the First Australians as aliens ... Legal minefield ... No joint judgments here ... Blood, country and belonging ... The unique position of Aboriginal Australians ... Section 51 ... Mabo (No 2) ... Powerful judgments ... Culture warriors on the ramparts ... Artemus Jones analyses each of the seven judgments
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, February 7, 2020 Impeachment and acquittal ... Sham trial ... Dubious defence lawyers with incoherent arguments ... Constitutional nonsense ... A mess that John Roberts CJ helped create ... Torture lawyers still peddling their soiled wares ... Roger Fitch reports from the wasteland of Washington
Polly Peck • Friday, January 31, 2020 Sir John Kerr's correspondence in the High Court ... Submissions in the Archives case ... Commonwealth property or personal property ... What is being hidden? ... Accessing governor general's letters about the sacking of the Whitlam government ... Bret Walker v Stephen Donaghue ... Alan Zheng sifts through the paperwork
Court in the Act • Thursday, January 30, 2020 Bad tempered Madge ticked-off in the Queensland District Court ... Misunderstanding basic legal requirements on multiple occasions ... Fundamental errors ... Flawed costs order ... Inappropriate behaviour from the bench ... Petulant sprays ... Sucking eggs ... The works ... Ginger Snatch reports
Goings On ..., Theodora • Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Justice Debra Mortimer goes to town on "certain Federal Circuit Court judges" who make it a "common practice" to deliver written reasons after the appeal time has expired ... Canine court "interactions" ... Tasmanian briefs lured by the idea that life will be better if the royal trinket is reinstated ... Theodora reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Monday, January 27, 2020 Just Mercy ... Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative ... Saving the misrepresented from death row ... Black men presumed guilty in America's south ... Racist legal system ... Dirty prosecution tricks ... Frying flesh... Miss Lumière at the movies
Hellfire Club • Thursday, January 23, 2020 Harsh life for struck-off solicitor ... A cult member who got onto pills and drugs ... Liquor store robberies ... A desire to return to prison ... Court of Appeal thinks robbery is incompatible with legal practice ... Forget rehabilitation, paying the Law Society's costs is more important ... Janek Drevikovsky reports