Lionel Murphy and Freehills' costs
Around the Firms • Friday, August 3, 2018 How the government in 1986 paid Freehills $200,000 towards Justice Lionel Murphy's costs of two criminal trials ... Freehills had undertaken the work for Murphy on a no-charges basis, while leaving open the prospect of seeking a contribution from the government ... Freehills advises Murphy not to change lawyers ... Counsels' fees and disbursements ... Departmental heads sought to cap the payment ... Cabinet agrees to a costs payment of $420,473 ... From Stephen Murray at the National Archives
Trumpism hits the law of contract
Dorothy Says • Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Blustering letters from the other side ... Ramped-up outrage ... No more yelling "snap" ... Sacrosanct clause in contract written by PR people ... Irrelevant aspirations ... Dorothy rapped on the knuckles
Rupert's Bootle Boy
Critics Corner • Monday, July 23, 2018 Peter Lyons in The Dart reviews Les Hinton's The Bootle Boy ... Journalism, ruthless Rupert, hacking, politics & human frailty ... From Liverpool, to Adelaide, to New York, to London ... Globe trotting insider who clung to the boss
The lawyer as wine tourist
Wendler on Wine • Monday, July 23, 2018 Wine man Gabriel Wendler visits the extraordinary Thomas Hardy Wine Library in Adelaide and d'Arenberg's Cube at McLaren Vale ... One of the great wine book collections in the world, while The Cube makes a big impact on the Southern Vales
Greg Tolhurst
On The Couch • Friday, July 20, 2018 Greg Tolhurst is the Executive Director of the NSW Bar Association and he's on Justinian's Couch ... An indoors-outdoors sort of person ... Huge pile of books beside his bed ... Lots of music ... Running the bar association at a time of considerable disruption ... Bin Chicken SC and Bullfry practising without tickets ... Dinner table banter ... Dessert and drumming ... No hot sun but more vitamin D