Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Donald Trump's rambling 85-page defamation complaint against The New York Times ... More >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The 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 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Goings On ... • Friday, January 27, 2012 Tom Hughes to be profiled in detail and at length in new book by Canberra historian ... Keddies still ducking and weaving - application for judge to step aside ... Barristers ordered to reveal their billing in Hong Kong PI cases ... Smallbone boned by bar 'n' grill ... Ashton v Pratt - Madison flirts with an appeal
Pillsbury Flom • Thursday, January 26, 2012 Pillsbury Flom in Australia for his hols, where he picks up the latest on the Lloyd Rayney case, gives his thoughts about Julia Gillard and her forbearance of radio ranters and her hypocrisy on gay marriage ... Plus, the Viagra patent case
Alan Jones, Julia Gillard, Lloyd Rayney, Same-sex marriage, Viagra Around The Firms • Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Leading personal injury solicitor appointed to board of NSW LawCover ... Untested allegations of professional misconduct hang in the air ... APRA's fit and proper guidelines for directors of insurance companies ... Finding of "serious neglect" ... Implications for policyholders
Brydens, Fit & Proper, LawCover, Robert Bryden Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Monday, January 23, 2012 Year of the Dragon, a year of great charges ... Percy Chan files from Hong Kong ... Life in the SAR: great wealth alongside striking poverty ... Lower bunks at a premium ... Mainlanders reducing the locals to second class citizens ... Pollution ... Traffic ... Land prices ... Ai WeiWei and taxes ... FILTH
Tulkinghorn • Tuesday, January 17, 2012 "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 ... Looks like the Circumlocution Office has got hold of the Marfording Report
Access of Justice, Legal fees, Marfording Report, Reform Neil Watt • Monday, January 16, 2012 New national solicitors' conduct rules dilute traditional approach to lawyers giving evidence in court for their clients ... Rules that will lead solicitors down the garden path ... Ethical eclipse ... From Neil Watt at the ethics desk
Leverhulme • Saturday, January 14, 2012 Leverhulme on The Iron Lady ... Tales from the Court of Queen Margaret ... The Kilmuir Rules ... Sentencing of race killers ... Plymouth judge makes a prat of himself, with no help from Fowler ... London Calling
Denis Thatcher, Lord Kilmuir, Margaret Thatcher Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, January 12, 2012 Milestones and millstones ... Guantánamo's tenth birthday, as Bill of Rights turns 220 ... National Defence Authorisation Act allows for exciting possibilities - including military detention of US civilians ... The new Reichstag Fire Decree ... Latest from US Supremes ... Habeas - British courts step-in where DC Circuit fears to tread
Around The Firms • Friday, December 23, 2011 Slater & Gordon accused of trying to snitch commercial benefit from Turner Freeman's High Court victory in asbestos case ... Angry rebuke ... All a terrible misunderstanding
Hellfire Club • Friday, December 23, 2011 Solicitor for Voyager victims loses his ticket ... Double billing and lack of candour means that David Forster is not a fit and proper type ... Nearly $1.5 million in receivership and LSB costs ... No joy from the fidelity fund
Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, December 22, 2011 Congressional fat cats ... Corporate crime and financial defalcation ... Constitutional violations ... Gridlock on judicial and ambassadorial nominations ... Roger Fitch surveys the Washington landscape
Pillsbury Flom • Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football coach up on child sex charges, has a very helpful lawyer with a sparkling media strategy ... Trial will be a needless formality ... Stand-by for extensively legalled media portraits of the Iron Ore Queen ... Pillsbury Flom files
Gina Rinehart, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Amendola Polly Peck • Friday, December 16, 2011 While no Lionel Murphy, Robert McClelland will be remembered as a decent, reforming attorney general ... His stature will grow with the years ... Marcus Priest, who was McClelland's senior policy advisor, dictated this piece to Polly Peck in Canberra
Robert McClelland William Collins • Tuesday, December 13, 2011 William Collins on Victoria's vexatious litigants ... Goldie Collins and Constance Bienvenu look like being outshone by Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight, a resident of Port Phillip Prison ... Persistent resort to civil justice ... Tireless struggle against the state
Vexatious litigants Around The Firms • Monday, December 12, 2011 New law year blasts off with contempt trial of three Keddies' partners … Cheque signed by Roulstone prime facie a breach of court order
Neil Watt • Wednesday, December 7, 2011 The new conduct rules for solicitors appear to be more notional than national ... Large Law Firm Group sets the tone ... It's all about what we can get away with ... The "right thing to do" went missing in action ... Neil Watt, who sat on the LCA's ethics committee, experienced a dashing of expectations
Around The Firms • Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Further delays in "bring them to heel" proceedings against Keddies ... Defendants want formal charges for contempt of court case ... Breach of ordinary tenets of professional courtesy ... Possible cross-examination set for Monday
Court in the Act • Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Judges being unkind to each other ... History of poor grammar and typos in judgments ... Forgiveness for some ... Crucifixion for others ... Defamatorium
Errors in judgments, High Court Around The Firms • Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Contempt of court … Intrusion into overcharging proceedings … Prime facie breach of undertakings and injunctions … Raising fingers of scorn at Supreme Court ... Keddies Three expected to be cross-examined by Stitt QC
City Desk • Monday, December 5, 2011 Cakes mistaken for handbags … Louis Vuitton attacks cake shop … Crisis in world of sugary designs … Intellectual property under siege … Customer confusion