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 >>
Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>
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 >>
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
Hellfire Club • Thursday, September 5, 2019 Yarraside spankings ... The wrong disciplinary body has been doling out punishment to bad lawyers ... Hundred of cases that were legal nullities have to be rescued by retrospective legislation ... For four years one paid attention to the defect ... Charter of Rights sent packing ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Barely Legal • Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Law school deanship drama in war-torn Hong Kong sees a result at Sydney University ... Selection process ... Law school league tables ... Comparative academic credentials ... New Sydney dean unsuccessful with Honkers application ... Barely Legal reports
Bar Talk • Monday, August 26, 2019 Gents - time please ... Barrister lightly spanked for sending disturbing fee threat to former clients ... "See what happens if you don't pay your bills" ... File leverage ... Agreement not to complain in exchange for the file ... NCAT bares its gums ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Judges • Monday, August 26, 2019 UPDATE ... Trick or treat with Judge Sal ... Apparently, parties should only to turn up at court if they know the result in advance ... Ignoring the Federal Court's advice on hearing unrepresented protection visa applicants ... Another of Salvatore's decisions remitted to be heard by a fresh judge ... "His Honour erred" ... Start again AND again
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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