Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >>
Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ...
A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >>
Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>
Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >>
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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ...
Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ...
Court in the Act • Sunday, May 20, 2018 On the cusp of federal courts restructure ... Caustic advice to Thee-Wigs Willy Alstergren on how to run the Family Court's appeal division ... New head of the division has limited family law experience, as does the chief justice ... Recipe for unhappiness ... Rules, requirements and ruminations
Hellfire Club • Monday, May 7, 2018 Dorothy Says • Sunday, May 6, 2018 Barbie - the perfect spectator for carnivore battles ... Hubris and delusion ... How partners' meetings have changed ... Women don't talk like that ... Dorothy, our partner at big law, looks at evolutionary developments
Peach Melba • Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Where are we with the ALRC inquiry into family law? ... Issues paper ... Access to justice ... Advocacy and support services ... Therapeutic justice ... Exploration of new modes of service delivery ... Peach Melba on the case
On The Couch • Tuesday, May 1, 2018 President of Vic's Bar n Grill on Justinian's Couch ... Matt Collins discusses the findings of the State of the Victorian Bar report ... Solicitors eating more of the bar's lunch ... Barristers not overpaid, considering ... Love of Paris, The Beatles, and Australian cinema ... The Hockey case ... Defamation laws unfit for purpose ... An impatient driver of change
Court in the Act • Friday, April 27, 2018 Slipping on a shallot in Woolworths ... Weighing the free speech rights of litigants in person to indulge in threatening correspondence with insurers for defendants ... Courts and tribunals seeing a tide of over-wrought and menacing missives from angry parties ... Judges feeling edgy
