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 >>
For the latest local news go to ... www.postcode2011.com.au
Latest in the saga ... Reynolds v Commonwealth & Ebsworth ... More >> ... Online file >>
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 >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
Procrustes • Sunday, October 13, 2019 11 out of 11 ... UK Supremes on a null and void prorogation ... Dissolution and prorogation: compare and contrast ... Judicial review of the prerogative power of the crown ... Principle of parliamentary sovereignty ... Her Maj the cypher ... Welcome back Sir Edward Coke ... Procrustes explains
Transcription Services • Saturday, October 12, 2019 Polly Peck • Friday, October 11, 2019 The poor old Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been trashed and stacked with the flotsam and jetsam of the Liberal Party ... Cronyism ... Peter Dutton's "Australian values" ... The defenestration of the administrative review functions of the Commonwealth ... Investigative reporting by Inq laid bare the extent of the political rort
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, October 4, 2019 
The brutality of the drug business in Columbia ... From the directors who brought us Embrace of the Serpent comes Birds of Passage ... America, the greedy satan ... Complex codes of honour ... Sumptuous and gripping ... Peace and war ... Miss Lumière reviews the spectacle
Polly Peck • Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Determining the number of real District Court judges ... Numbers that never vary, depending on who is included or excluded ... Counter-terrorism provision that lapsed at sunset because no one was looking ... Online application policy - one thing for JPs, another for GIPA requests ... Polly Peck savours the vignettes of the NSW AG's administration
Hellfire Club • Friday, September 27, 2019 Queensland bar ... Shortcomings fixed by lashings more bar readership ... Professional misconduct where barrister persisted with appeal submissions that had no basis in fact ... Inexperience ... Promises not to practice family law again ... Penny dropped late in the process ... Out comes the damp lettuce leaf ... Ghost of Rose Mary Wood
Procrustes • Thursday, September 26, 2019 Rekindling the culture wars on museums ... Remembering the Howardistas' attack on Dawn Casey ... Political donations - a problem too far ... Corporates snapping up democracy at bargain basement prices ... Political intervention driven by ideology and money ... Procrustes explains it all
