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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Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... 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 >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
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 >>
Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >>
Peach Melba • Monday, December 10, 2018 Justice Project largely overlooked by the media ... A legal system in need of change at every level ... LCA report urges a "holistic", multi-disciplinary approach ... Identifying potential legal problems before they take hold ... Justice Impact Tests ... Peach Melba on the case
Polly Peck • Friday, December 7, 2018 Decrypring the encryptions ... Christmas spree of paedophiles and terrorists thwarted (not quite) ... Requests and notices ... Anti-corruption commissions removed from the scheme ... New legislation back for further tweaking in the New Year ... Oversight missing in inaction ... International ramifications ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Postcards from George • Thursday, December 6, 2018 Update from Australia House ... HE George Brandis sends Christmas greetings from The Strand ... Marvellous party ... 100th birthday for Australia House ... Bronze bust to be commissioned of HE ... London Diary ... And more
Procrustes • Tuesday, November 27, 2018 The Alstons - Richard and Philip ... Human Rights Alston and Nasty Party Alston ... How do families breed them? ... Poverty and wealth distribution in the West ... Government policies create society's permanent sub-class ... And Jolly John Kerr's letters to the Palace ... Procrustes on the King's Two Bodies
Comment • Monday, November 19, 2018 Rushing About Part Two ... Geoffrey Rush v Daily Telegraph ... The trial ... The touch ... The theatre of reputation ... Which breast? ... Lies and "disgusting lies" ... Complainant, a brave and impressive witness in the face of "florid and extravagant" cross-examination ... A telling email about reputation ... Scrumptious and Yummy
Oh, Geoffrey
Rushing About Part One ... First in the trilogy ... Geoffrey Rush v Daily Telegraph ... Clash of cultures ... What it means for reputation and free speech ... The pandemic of "inappropriate touching" ... The Telegraph story and the meanings extracted by Rush lawyers ... The case for the newspaper
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