Know who your client is
Around the Firms • Thursday, April 11, 2019 You are the lawyer ... Sydney property drama ... Solicitor who didn't realise party to the sale of a property was also his client ... Duty of care was owed ... Retainer ... NSW Court of Appeal lays down the law on requirement for lawyers to "step outside" a matrimonial dispute ... Gabrielle Hunter reports
Melissa Davey
On The Couch • Thursday, April 11, 2019 Melissa Davey is the ace reporter from The Guardian who covered the Pell trial from beginning to end ... Compassionate, driven and intense ... Book under steam ... Journalism and the meaning of life ... Plenty of gluten for her last meal ... A questing spirit is On The Couch
Dutton's dob-in law
Peach Melba • Thursday, April 11, 2019 Peach Melba gets her head around the government's secrecy certificates ... Visa applicants not supposed to know what the government knows ... Procedural fairness ... Secret evidence ... Material and immaterial obligations to disclose ... Public interest ... AAT ... Groping for successful outcomes
America's true crime reality show
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Attorney General Barr's manipulation of the Mueller report ... More toxic Trump cabinet appointments and the sacking of the wicked witch of Homeland, Kirsten Nielsen ... Gorsuch's god bothering come out from under his skirt ... Omar Khadr, John Walter Lindh, Mustafa al-Hawsawi and their part in the fabricated war on terror ... Roger Fitch in Washington
Torpid town
Judges • Friday, April 5, 2019 Judgments along the Molonglo move at a trickle ... Retired ACT Supreme Court judge still sitting on six reserved judgments ... Some decisions reserved four-five years ago ... A two-year-old case gets a rapid fire burst of decision-making ... The backlog should be cleared in a couple more years ... Artemus Jones reports
Pre-election knee-jerk
Polly Peck • Friday, April 5, 2019 Government's rushed web-cleansing operation ... Failure to consult, the exception being News Corp ... Massive penalties for online "providers" of abhorrent material ... Vague and unsatisfactory law ... Moses issues tablets ... Powerless to stop terrorist atrocities but trying to stop people looking at them ... Janek Drevikovsky looks closely at the latest in the anti-terror arsenal
Wilde's Dieppe into despair
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, April 5, 2019 Rupert Everett gives us the post-Newgate decay of Oscar Wilde ... Dieppe, Paris and Naples ... The Happy Prince, reviewed by Miss Lumière ... The tail end of a regrettable defamation action ... A rouge dabbed reminder of Death in Venice ... The not-so-gay final chapter of an Irish wit, complete with the famous wallpaper scene