Movement at the station ... Judges messing with the priestly defendants ... Pell-mell ... Elaborate, if eye-glazing, events mark the arrival of the Apple Isle's new CJ ... Slow shuffle at the top of the Federales delayed ... Celebrity fee dispute goes feral ... Dogs allowed in chambers ... Barrister slapped for pro-Hamas Tweets ... India's no rush judgments regime ... Goings on with Theodora ... More >>
Pale, male and stale ... Trump’s George III revival … Change the channel … No news about George Pell is the preferred news … ACT corruption investigation into the Cossack and Planet Show gets closer to the finishing line … How to empty an old house with a chainsaw ... Read on ...
Rome is burning ... Giorgia Meloni's right-wing populist regime threatens judicial independence ... Moves to strip constitutional independence of La Magistratura ... Judges on the ramparts ... The Osama Almasri affair ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
The Charities Commission provides details of the staggering amounts of loot in which the College of Knowledge is wallowing ... Little wonder Bell CJ and others are on the warpath ... More >>
Letter from London ... T.S Eliot gets it wrong ... Harry cleans up in a fresh round with Murdoch's hacking hacks ... All aboard Rebekah Brooks' "clean ship" ... Windy woman restrained from further flatulent abuse ... Trump claims "sovereign immunity" to skip paying legal costs of £300,000 ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >>
Damien Carrick ... For 23 years Carrick has presented the Law Report on ABC Radio National ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests ... On The Couch ... Read more >>
The Saints Go Marching In ... Cash 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 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
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
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