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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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 >>
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, September 20, 2019 Victorian judge agrees to handover the gate key ... Easement hijinks at the Vic Supremes ... Ingress and egress restored to judge's South Yarra neighbours ... Hilary ploughs ahead with her holiday judgment-writing in Canberra ... Latest instructions on wigs and robes ... Vasta Watch - a fresh bulletin ... Bookshelves Brandis bounces back to town ... Theodora reports
Court in the Act • Thursday, September 19, 2019 A solicitor appears before a Yarraside judicial registrar ... Where's my stay? ... Waiver of court fees ... Appeal ... What's going on? ... It's so simple ... Give me a case ... Seeking to appeal against an order that is not a final order ... Costs order ... No arguable case .. Impecuniosity ... Abuse of process ... It's pretty simple, right? ... I'm sick of this ... Which part of a fee waiver don't you understand? ... The next case has been called
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, September 18, 2019 The price of panic ... Stress caught a young lawyer unawares ... An innocent mistake compounded by forgery ... Bad look for the legal business ... Tears at work ... Depression and drinking ... Time in the wilderness for "self-reflection" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from the Bureau de Spank
Polly Peck • Monday, September 16, 2019 Important Bills passed by NSW parliament go mouldy on the shelf awaiting proclamation ... Modern Slavery Act and Surveillance Devices amendments ... Where are they? ... Revisions and refinements ... Government runs cold and warmish on data breaches ... Polly Peck reports from Macquarie Street's bear pit
Hellfire Club • Saturday, September 14, 2019 UPDATE ... Solicitor ordered to pay court costs personally, within in 60 days ... It took over three years for him to fork-up ... Unacceptable delays ... Far-fetched excuses and extensions of time ... Finding of professional misconduct ... Disgraceful ... Other unattractive priors
Around the Firms • Friday, September 6, 2019 HWL Ebsworth lawyer told not to bite the hand that feeds the firm ... The turbulent Dr Rumble's criticism of his client ... Bad for business ... Grounds for termination ... Managing partner Martinez intolerant of insubordination ... Christmas party snub ... No presents ... Stephen Murray reports
Court in the Act • Friday, September 6, 2019 High Court puts the lid on the honey pot ... Common law revised ... Solicitors and barristers no longer able to charge costs when acting for themselves ... Same principle applies for litigants in person ... Chorley exception was a "privilege" and an affront to equality before the law ... Stinging Nettle ... Stephen Murray reports
Porter produces another shambles
The attorney general's draft religious freedoms legislation is a dog's breakfast ... Three Bills of the Holy Trinity ... Irony of ironies - an expanded role for the Human Rights Commission ... In any event, religious bodies don't believe in freedom of speech ... Special protections for crackpot beliefs ... Failure to expand free speech where it is most needed ... Graham Hryce despairs
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