Remembering the great Pat O’Shane’s defamation case against culture warrior Janet (The Planet) Albrechtsen … Pat comes home at the trial and most of the damages on appeal … When Fairfax defended Albrechtsen … From Justinian’s Archive, April 15, 2004
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Goings On ..., Theodora Tuesday, February 18, 2025Cash cow has to claw its way back to the LCA’s inner sanctum … Stephen Estcourt cleans up in Mercury settlement … Amex rides two horses in expiring guarantee cases … Simmo bins the paperwork … Attorneys General should not come from the solicitors’ branch … Goings On from February 9, 2009
A life in Commonwealth cars is not a good look
Deja Vu Tuesday, January 28, 2025Scene beside the lake … Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon … A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good … Taxi driver’s failure to lament … From Justinian’s Archive, February 2, 2009
Regrets
Bar Talk Wednesday, October 9, 2024The then Media Watch host and one of the country’s most magnificent silks birched in the High Court for not sticking to the rules … Scratchy Stu … From Justinian’s Archive, May 1997
It’s a Dizzy world
Court in the Act Wednesday, August 7, 2024Judges’ associate Ginger Snatch hangs out in the Blue Mountains with a whole pile of Dizzo judges … NSW Court of Appeal lashes poor wretches lower down the stare decisis food chain for poor quality reasoning … In Queensland a costs assessor fails to “inspire confidence” … From Justinian’s Archive, April 17, 2007
Twenty-one years ago
Theodora Thursday, June 13, 2024Winning tickets at the pro bono awards … Prizes for Vic’s AG … Court vacancies – filled and unfilled … Hugh Keller’s recipes for wellness … DPP Cowdery wants life … Geographic ordeal for Bossley Park … Meagher’s art – the definition of clutter … Theodora reports … From Justinian’s Archive, June 11, 2003
Justice Jeff Shaw’s bingle
Judges Tuesday, April 30, 2024Supreme Court judge’s drink-drive experience … Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street … Touch driving … Missing blood sample … Equality before the law may not apply to judges … Judges behind the wheel … From Justinian’s Archive … November 4, 2004
Justinian’s Archive
Archive Friday, March 29, 2024The plague of amnesia … Memory and its failures … Remembering to forget things … Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing … Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges … An experienced judge writes … Justinian’s Archive, November 12, 2004 …