Spotlight on McClintock ... Former defamation silk takes the podium ... Speech and fielding questions in clubland ... Jabs at enemies ... Why fewer punters are suing ... Cross-examining journalists ... Fun cases ... When not to sue ... From Ginger Snatch at lunch ... Read more >>
A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ...
Bird on the wing ... Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP ... Read more >>
ALRC report on justice responses to sexual violence has been completed ... To be tabled when parliament gets back on its legs ... More >>
Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0 ... Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct ... Read more >>
The great interceptor ... Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments ... Read more ...
Litigation's artful delays ... From Justinian's archive ... April 22, 2014 ... Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case ... 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 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 Judges • Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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Vroom, Vroom ... Qld magistrates go on red alert for bikie menace ... Court of Appeal to decide on separation of powers ... Or will appeal judges do "what the community wants"?
Sir Terence O'Rort • Thursday, March 29, 2012 Lawyers fail to comply with requirements for speedy, efficient proceedings ... Possible costs penalties ... Reference to Queensland Law Society and Bar 'n' Grill ... Reeves J unloads both barrells in Federal Court ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports
Civil law, David Bennett, Judges, Legal fees, Overcharging Tulkinghorn • Thursday, March 15, 2012 Judges from the ranks of successful lawyers ... Poachers are warned not to turn gamekeepers ... Wolves in sheeps' clothing ... The usual (unusual) rule ... Judges propping-up the fees grab ... What lawyer said: "Frankly, the pursuit of money by the legal profession came to disgust me"? ... Tulkinghorn probes
Civil law, David Bennett, Judges, Legal fees, Overcharging 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
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 Leverhulme • Monday, July 19, 2010 Mandy furiously promoting The Third Man ... Judge resigns over rent-boy indiscretion … Clegg wants to overturn law that bans animals fornicating with Royal corgis … Punter wins hedging bets case – Leverhulme delighted
Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 It was a very different world in 1989 ... In Scotland gay judges were being hounded off the bench ... Victualler at Valentine's Bar heard loose tongue flapping ... Hooker tapes Honkers prosecutor asking for underage sex ... From Justinian December 1989
Homosexuality, Judges, Underage sex