Fresh blood for the NSW District Court ... Appointments >>
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 >>
50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... 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
Around The Firms • Monday, November 3, 2014 Action against Clayton Utz over dismissal of a partner ... Another procedural victory for plaintiff Chris Dale ... Now onto the main game ... Kate Lilly reports
Goings On ... • Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Tightening the screws on prisoners ... Qld bar speaking from both sides of its mouth ... Dale gets Clutz to cough-up costs ... More bullying ... Handy loopholes in new solicitors' conduct rules
Around The Firms • Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Big law shop drops its insistence on having Allan Myers for the Chris Dale case ... Appeal ditched ... No more mucking around
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Around The Firms • Saturday, April 13, 2013 Is Allan Myers the only silk in Melbourne? ... Clayton Utz insists on having this singular barrister to fend off claims by former partner Chris Dale ... Spectre of Rolah McCabe and document destruction ... Appeal against orders that Myers should not appear for the firm ... On and on it goes
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Around The Firms • Thursday, March 28, 2013 Gilded orb of the Yarraside bar removed from appearing for Clayton Utz in bitter litigation over sacking of partner Christopher Dale ... Silk can't remember meeting and giving advice that is now the subject of litigation
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Around The Firms • Monday, December 10, 2012 Ongoing struggle between Clayton Utz and Christopher Dale … Gathering of ghosts … McCabe case, Ebner case, the Korean inheritance saga … Sleuths and leaks … Did Allan Myers give Dale advice? … Can he act for Clayton Utz against Dale?
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Hellfire Club • Saturday, October 27, 2012 Former partner in over his head with house purchase and renovations ... False rental expense claims in tax returns ... Defrauding the Commonwealth ... Bankruptcy, jail, struck off ... General ruination
Clayton Utz, George Livanes, Tax Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Littlemore peddles loosely-stitched thesis to Fink … Human Rights Commission beds down with Rio Tinto … Sound and fury from a Murdoch editor, signifying nothing … Styles v Clutz - parties issue peachy settlement sentiments … State media invaded by Poland
Around The Firms • Friday, October 28, 2011 Affidavit material in Styles v Clayton Utz ... Backward and forwards on cross-vesting and claims for privilege ... Probably only suitable for devotees of this litigation
Bridgette Styles, Clayton Utz Around The Firms • Sunday, October 16, 2011 Styles v Clayton Utz ... Two judgments dealing with pleadings in the sex discrimination case against the large law shop ... Taunting photos ... Unfunny parodies ... Sexual tension ... Metro manwhoreishness
Bridgette Styles, Clayton Utz, Luis Izzo Goings On ... • Wednesday, June 15, 2011 ACT Supremes still drowsy ... AG Smith singing at Silverwater ... Queen's gongs for lawyers ... Littlemore's new hero - "ugly, irascible, intolerant, clever" ... Clutz' document retention policy thriving ... Minimalist welcome from the bar for Ashley Black ... The Rudds turn up at Spigs last admission ceremony
Hellfire Club • Friday, February 18, 2011 Clutz's billing methods birched in Queensland ... Maria Bechara's magic transformation of an hour into three billable hours ... WA solicitor trumps legal aid with litigation funding for impoverished client ... Victoria prepares to say "Bye, Bye Brottie" ... Busy time for Bureaux de Spank across the nation
Billing, Clayton Utz, Fees, Isaac Brott Around The Firms • Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Former Clayton Utz solicitor sues the firm for defamation … Email sent at the direction of former Law Soc prez Joe Catanzariti … Partners argue that proposed amended statement of claim “seriously prejudices them” ... Justice Simpson says firm’s submission is “inapt”
Clayton Utz, Defamation