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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Justinian's archive
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Sunday, January 29, 2012 In Hong Kong Percy Lo-Kit Chan watches on television the melee outside the Lobby restaurant on Australia Day and reflects on what happened when three students got close to the Vice Premier of the PRC ... Civil discourse also at a low ebb in the HKSAR
Australia Day, Julia Gillard 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
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, September 15, 2011 Female liberation Chinese style ... PRC Supremes say that if a wife brings nothing to a marriage, she gets nothing on the split-up ... As property prices soar, divorce booms ... Millions of young men with no home and no woman ... Trouble brewing ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Family law, Mallett v Mallet Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, September 15, 2011 China's new "value" system ... Self-interest reigns ... The government says aiding people in distress could cause problems ... Stand back, don't interfere ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong
Civil Liability Act NSW Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Percy Lo-Kit Chan bemoans that living space is at an absolute premium in Hong Kong and vastly expensive ... Now there is a clamp down on "illegal structures" that will create even more of a squeeze ... Percy has some housing and tax advice for young Australian lawyers coming to HK for a stint
Hong Kong property Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Monday, June 13, 2011 Rule of law in Hong Kong rudely shaken ... Sovereign debt case sent by Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal to National People's Congress for resolution ... Legal system on the mainland still an adjunct of the government ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Rule of law Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Vulture fund litigation ... Issue of Hong Kong's jurisdiction over the Congo (Democratic Republic of) ... Expensive counsel fly in from the UK ... Mountains of cash, Chinese politics and judicial independence of Hong Kong all in play ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Sovereign immunity 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
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
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, July 22, 2010 Conflicts lawyers salivating … Hong Kong court told to butt out of case involving claims of sovereign immunity … US hedge fund wants it’s money back … Arbitral award over debts owed by state enterprises … Percy Lo-kit Chan files this report
Sovereign immunity Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Monday, May 17, 2010 Later aristo sons went to the bar … Now Hong Kong authorities crack down on poorer grade graduates wanting to be barristers … Right of audience for solicitors expanded … English structure on its last legs … Percy summons ghosts of halcyon days