Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... 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 >>
Inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker ... Finding that former constable Zachary Rolfe was a racist and that the NT Police had the hallmarks of institutionalised racism ... Failure of NT Police to properly supervise Rolfe "contributed to the sense of impunity with which he approached his work as a police officer and emboldened his approach" ... Coroner Judge Elizabeth Armitage's findings in full >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
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Judges • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Justice Bill Wilson saved himself and the NZ judiciary further embarrassment when last month he resigned from the Supreme Court ... On the way out he dumped the country's chief justice Dame Sian Elias in the horse merde
Conflict of interest Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Murder by milkshake ... Foreign counsel to the fore in retrial of rich banker's wife for murder of control freak husband ... Overseas barristers can help develop the local bar - but only in moderation ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong
Leverhulme • Thursday, November 4, 2010 Health & safety music hall jokes under review ... "Ginger Rodent" insult from former equality priestess ... Lady Dorothy's mother ... Holed-up in the Hunting Tower at Chatsworth ... London Calling
Chatsworth, Health and safety Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Uproar in Martin Place as a third of 15 Wardell peels off ... ACCC wants to know more about clerks for Vic barristers ... French CJ, the lady in green and Grecian 2000 on display at the Art Gallery of NSW ... Theodora reports
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Sunday, October 31, 2010 Percy is waiting to try a dish of ostrich ... Sir Anthony Mason is the bright star of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ... The most prolific of the non-permanent judges
Stephen Keim • Sunday, October 31, 2010 Boy soldier Omar Khadr pleads guilty before Guantanamo Military Commission ... Plea deal saves the US the embarrassment of conducting the "trial" of a boy soldier ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree report
Law of war Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, October 27, 2010 New Supreme Court term … Political gold rush flows from Citizens United … Tea Party nutters … Government plan to assassinate US citizen goes to court … Torture case against Boeing subsidiary overturned ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Law of war, Political funding, State secrets Barry Lane • Monday, October 25, 2010 Vic Parliament rides to the rescue to save the VWA's bacon ... No more issue estoppels for you ... Juries to be mushroomed ... Barry Lane reports on the latest from accident compo world
Accident Compensation Evan Whitton • Friday, October 22, 2010 Evan Whitton advises on how to run a commission of inquiry ... Special prosecutor absolutely essential ... Voices from the past - Mike Ahern and Doug Drummond ... Lord Widgery's cover-up ... Saville The Stonecutter
Commissions of inquiry Pillsbury Flom • Friday, October 22, 2010 The Pledge ... Blogging judges ... Three strikes ... And other lunacies of the US justice system ... Pillsbury Flom reports
Judges, Judicial system Judges • Thursday, October 21, 2010 Much ado stirred by Sydney Morning Herald's series on judges at work and play ... On the record and unexpurgated ... How will we ever shut them up now?
Bar Talk • Tuesday, October 19, 2010 NSW silk selection reforms have not gone far enough, says Alexander Street SC ... The process still needs fundamental reform ... Just when the bar council was patting itself on the back for a job well done, along comes a fresh broadside from an insider
Senior Counsel selection Goings On ... • Tuesday, September 28, 2010 New-old stuff from Spiggsy Spigelman CJ ... The four categories of judicial personalities ... Introducing the Vincent Index ... Soapy Brandis conjures some constitutional thoughts
Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 24, 2010 There is more litigant satisfaction in Baden-Württemberg than in New South Wales ... Cases are conducted more quickly and at less cost ... The Marfording report on civil litigation picks-up where the ALRC failed to take off ... Tulkinghorn reports
Goings On ... • Monday, September 20, 2010 Map of Tasmania ... Huge damages threatened against police for refusal to allow famous Tasmanian barrister to shoot animals from his Porsche ... Excrement on golf course fairways ... Native hens don't scare easily - they will need to be shot
Barristers, Map of Tasmania, Wildlife Goings On ... • Thursday, September 16, 2010 The Ron Cahill affair had Canberra spellbound ... Chief Magistrate in strife over suggestions he meddled in a case involving a friend ... DPP drops the investigation ... Relief that Rapid Ron is in the clear and that he's off the bench
Chief Magistrate Ron Cahill Leverhulme • Monday, September 13, 2010 Being tortured by your students - the trials of trial advocacy instructors ... Lessons of Sir Patrick Hastings - counsel should rely on memory not notes ... Better to observe the witnesses ... "Chris," she cried with her last breath ... London Calling with Leverhulme
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, September 13, 2010 State Department reports to UN on human rights in the USA ... Surprisingly few US civilians killed overseas by terrorists last year ... Of all the defendants before Military Commissions, only one has been charged with an actual war crime
Law of war Goings On ... • Thursday, September 9, 2010 A defamation action by three former employees of Keddies against the law firm has hit a snag ... McClintock withdraws after Keddies' partners object ... Trial delayed ... No senior barristers available ... Law firm overcharging to be probed in libel trial
Defamation, professional conduct Judges • Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Don't mess with the judge's bags ... PNG airport search goes wrong ... Restraining order on airport security man who wanted to check senior judge's "cargo" ... Rule of law in action