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 >>
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Goings On ... • Friday, May 23, 2014 Essential programs slashed and burnt in Hockey budget - including Bret Walker's job ... Here comes Mega-Trib ... Fancy bookshelves ruled out-of-order for Chinese judges ... How to get a remedy against an indigent blogger
Defamation, Federal budget, George Brandis, Judges, Legal aid City Desk • Sunday, May 11, 2014 ICAC probes "sham" documents ... Water, water everywhere ... When shares in Di Girolamo's waterworks company transformed into a loan ... The O'Greeds ... Claims of "false instrument" ... Barrister questioned at ICAC ... Defamatorium
Defamation, ICAC, Nick Di Girolamo Court in the Act • Friday, May 2, 2014 No proceeds of crime for Corby ... Solicitor for Channel 7 gets nice little grovel from AFP commissioner ... No injunction or suppression orders for Kerry Stokes or his lawyer in defamation proceedings ... Blogger blowout
AFP, Channel 7, Defamation, Justine Munsie, Schapelle Corby Court in the Act • Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Defamatorium ... Clive Palmer's lessons in how not to wage a defamation action ... Acting for himself, then switching back to lawyers ... Failure to comply with case management rules ... Delays ... Last minute attempt to reactivate his case ... Submission for judge to recuse herself ... The kitchen sink ... Indemnity costs
Case management, Clive Palmer, Defamation, Indemnity costs Judges • Monday, January 27, 2014 Defamatorium ... Bias ... An abundance of applications for female defamation judges to recuse themselves ... Relatively few male judges face the same issue ... Why is this so?
Defamation, Judges Around The Firms • Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Defamatorium ... Kim Williams lawyers-up against the newspaper his lawyers used to defend ... Opera House hissy fit denied ... Working both sides of Libel Street ... It's not over till the fat lady sings
Defamation, Fairfax Media, Kim Williams, Mark O'Brien Court in the Act • Sunday, August 25, 2013 Lawyers fees slashed ... Bills unpaid ... Client and former solicitors in dispute over money ... Solicitors who were sacked from defamation case having trouble getting their hands of their costs ... Client wants the money paid to him ... Trouble in libel land ... Defamatorium
Clive Evatt, Costs, Defamation, Mamdouh Habib City Desk • Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Latest thrills and spills around the Defamation Court ... Reputations under fire ... Tony Renshaw v Lawyers Weekly ... Chief Madge v Daily Tele ... Ashurst Partner v Fairfax ... Littlemore, gentle but firm ... Defamatorium
Around The Firms • Friday, November 30, 2012 Lawyers' threatening letters ... Heavy handed attempts to get the media or campaigning activists to back-off ... Spectre of defamation proceedings and aggravated damages ... Huffing and puffing that goes nowhere
Ashurst, Colin Biggers & Paislet, Defamation, Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Robert Todd City Desk • Friday, March 16, 2012
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Defamatorium ... Outburst from barrister … Solicitor suing Financial Review loses injurious falsehood case, wins in defamation ... Juror looked chastened after being directly addressed by counsel during summing-up … How to handle an outburst from the bar table
ATO, Defamation, NSW Legal Services Commissioner Leverhulme • Friday, February 4, 2011 Forget Egypt ... The biggest news in Britain is the performance of a couple of buffoon sports commentators on Rupe's Sky network ... The Red Tops in a frenzy over sexist wisecracks ... More defo and privacy actions loom ... Leverhulme sorts out Tony Blair ... Chilcot's sure to nail the former PM
Defamation, Privacy, Sky Sports, Tony Blair Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Mediation to commence in the sexual harassment case brought by solicitor Bridgette Styles against the big law shop Clayton Utz
Defamation, Sexual harassment 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 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”
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