The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... 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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Pinning the tail on the jellyfish ... Auditor General to probe the shifting expenditure on Federal Court legal services ... AFR ... More >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
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Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
Court in the Act • Friday, May 10, 2019 Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff
Polly Peck • Friday, May 10, 2019 Polly Peck delves into the salmagundi of law & justice policies on offer by the two major parties ... May 18 election ... Policies that have been missing in action during the campaign ... Rights ... Integrity Commissions ... Family law reform ... Judicial and quasi-judicial appointments ... Legal aid ... Indigenous Australians ... Prosecuting Banks and finance companies ... Whistleblower protections ... Catching more crims ... Take your pick
Sports Desk • Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Ancient rugger buggers ... It was 1956 and Sir William Slim was Governor General, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean surfaced in Moscow and My Fair Lady opened on Broadway ... It was also the year that two teams of NSW solicitors and barristers squeezed into their footy gear and scrummed down ...
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Three Pinocchios for Billy Barr ... Mueller's 11 obstruction findings ... Charging and indicting Trump ... SCOTUS takes on cultural issues with new term cases ... Invalid orders of a compromised military commission judge ... Noam Chomsky on how the US political system works ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch
Barely Legal • Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Law school during the election campaign ... Lots of students in suits as careers in Parliament House beckon ... The Canberra Bubble comes to campus ... Party hacks starting young ... Barely Legal's mother hands out Labor leaflets and dry fruit cake
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 2, 2019 Reef coral opinions bleached ... Fresh from spankings by the Full Family Court, Judge Vasta rides to the rescue of a sacked professor ... Lengthy judgment without citing a single authority or precedent ... Sal turns his hand to intellectual freedom ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Goings On ..., Theodora • Thursday, May 2, 2019 South Australian briefs opt for royal plumage ... Fail, pass, fail, appeal, sue ... The Herbert Smith Freehills candidate's unhappy time qualifying for a right of audience in the higher courts of the UK ... Latest word from Bridie ... Qld solicitor general turns people green ... Jobs galore ... Bottom pinching assault sorted ... Theodora reports
Procrustes • Monday, April 29, 2019 Man and machines ... Luddites in the election ... The computer is trying to fly the Boeing 737 Max ... But when the crunch comes you need an experienced human being ... Now it's computer generated government decisions ... How are machine-made decisions reviewable? ... Justice Melissa Perry on digital pathways to decision making ... Procrustes looks at what seems like a high-speed tech wreck