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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Bradley John Murdoch RIP ... Much more than the headlines ... Devoted family man ... Respected prisoner ... Great in the kitchen ... Generous and gentle ... Plus, the three missing KCs ... Former Law Institute President Christopher Dale issues a statement on behalf of the family ... More >>
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 >>
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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 >>
Polly Peck • Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Budget night ... Porter can't get the family courts legislation through the senate ... Crumbs off the table for the legally aided ... Lumps of money for the government's proposed Integrity Commission ... Plus follow-up money for ASIC and ARPA to get stuck into the bankers ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from lock-up land
Goings On ... • Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Silken beauties on the ticket for Collaery and Witness K "national security" trial ... Major law and justice commitment missing from NSW election campaign ... Judges in South Australia withdraw from SC appointments as QC proposal flounders ... Leading players will be absent from the Geoffrey Rush judgment ... Theodora reports
Polly Peck • Thursday, March 21, 2019 The backstory of Justice Andrew (Taco) Bell's role in helping Schmo Morrison grab the seat of Cook ... Wheels within wheels ... Memories of the Cook preselection rort ... The PM's Muslim baiting goes back to the beginnings of time ... Career paths on the up-and-up ... Alex Mitchell comments
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Christmas Island reopening for business ... The lives of detainees laid bare ... Australian policy at its most primitive ... Miss Lumière reviews Gabrielle Brady's film Island of the Hungry Ghosts ... Trauma counselling curtailed by the dead hand of Canberra ... How we make them suffer ... From phosphate to fear
Theodora • Thursday, March 14, 2019 A long time ago in a city far away, Alan Bond built an empire based on borrowed money ... Bell Group litigation still keeping an army of lawyers well fed in the top paddock ... History of a corporate calamity and a lawyers' bonanza ... 19 years later where are we? ... Theodora explains
Procrustes • Thursday, March 14, 2019 What lessons can we learn from Brexit and do we care? ... Letting the public decide ... The great swindle of plebiscites ... Back to Little England and Wogs at Calais ... Brits saw their identity quite differently to the Continentals ... Simon Schama brings Richard Cobden back to life ... Procrustes tells us what went wrong
Prasad is dead
Entirely a matter for the jury ... Prasad Directions - the common law right the High Court found was never there ... Jurors to be kept on to the bitter end of hopeless prosecutions ... Rotten apples at the fruit shop ... Prasad should be reinstated by legislation, says long-time Canberra barrister Jack Pappas
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