Sofronoff stripped bare ... Deceit ... Betrayal ... Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information "tryst" ... Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann ... Derangement syndrome ... Sofronoff's "serious corruption" ... Devastation among devoted Banana Benders ... Read more >>
Bag lady ... Don't call the results until the fat lady sings … Senator's criminal record hidden from view … Inspiration from our B-grade business leaders … Forget the sexual harassment, Dicey Heydon is coming out of the deep freeze ... Read on >>
Capital crimes ... Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon ... Musk and his techie vandals ... The shredder going full blast at the FBI ... Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago ... Cabinet clown show ... White supremacy unleashed ... Consumer protection prosecutions dropped ... Lawyers and law firms threatened ... Roger Fitch from Washington ... Read more >>
London Calling ... Law n Order in Blighty ... King invites the King for State visit ... Grovels aplenty ... Magistrate over does the "send him down" ... Musos strike an angry chord about AI encroachment ... Law shops protect the billable hour ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files ... Read more >>
Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >>
Defamation and other misadventures ... So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004 ... Read more >>
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Bar Talk • Monday, October 14, 2013 Selection of new silks ... An odd arrangement that rewards and divides the bar ... The relative importance of popularity and outstanding achievement ... A fresh round of humiliation ... Ginger Snatch reflects
GD Wendler, NSW Bar Association, Silk selection Goings On ... • Friday, August 16, 2013 Red Mess in Rome ... HP apologises to president of NSW bar for "rash and immature" statements ... K & W Mallesons - the power of together with journalists ... Solicitor caught on ICAC tap in dastardly plot with mayor
Hellfire Club • Monday, March 4, 2013 NSW lawyers disciplinary register falls into disrepair ... Missing names ... Legal Services Commissioner says he doesn't know about disciplinary findings that are publicly available ... Hydra-headed regulatory regime dysfunctional
Bar Talk • Wednesday, December 5, 2012 NSW bar more gender equal than its Yarraside counterpart ... Why is that so, when there are so many lovely sentiments about equality? ... VicBar actions on parental leave at odds with stated policy ... Gender correspondent Ginger Snatch reports
Bar Talk • Thursday, November 8, 2012
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Sydney and Melbourne bars go to the polls ... Same old candidates turn-up for re-election … Wall of men … Women fighting to be counted
Goings On ... • Wednesday, October 17, 2012 UPDATE ... Moaning judges flee MONA family law dinner dance … Tussle for the top Supreme Court post in Van Diemen's Land … Putting a shine on SCs … Female barristers decaying less quickly than males … Pulp fiction's playthings
Bar Talk • Friday, September 28, 2012 Exclusive ... Comments received from members on the NSW bar's draft strategic plan ... Groping for a view of the future ... Great struggles with solicitors ... Fee recovery strategies ... Commitment to diversity ... What do barristers have to offer? ... Marketing and more bang for bucks ... Creating an identity ... Better diets ... Access to legal information ... Massive work ahead for the bar association to become relevant
NSW Bar Association, The future Bar Talk • Friday, August 10, 2012 NSW bar looks for ways to stay bobbing in a turbulent sea ... Economic ideas to the fore in strategy plan ... Relevancy deprivation syndrome could be a factor ... Where are the bar's public voices?
NSW Bar Association Goings On ... • Thursday, July 14, 2011 Refreshments get out of hand at Roddy Meagher's wake ... Assaults in the bar common room ... Jackson Pollock artworks on display as guests fall about ... Grief fuelled by liquor
Assault, NSW Bar Association, Roddy Meagher Goings On ... • Thursday, May 12, 2011 It's winter and the NSW bar 'n' grill gets out the knitting needles and balls of wool for a good old knitathon ... Brian Tamberlin, the O'Barrell government's power man, will provide a welcome boost to the Lawyers Full-Employment Act ... Solicitors who forge documents - it's worth the punt
Brian Tamberlin, Forgery, NSW Bar Association Goings On ... • Friday, June 8, 2007 Sir Gerry Brennan at centre of high-rise dog fight ... Flare-up at bench v bar dinner in Sydney ... Corrigan accuses union lawyers of "conniving" to select patsy judge ... Turf warfare over the right to publicity ... Horror stories from Cowderyland ... June 8, 2007
Deja Vu • Friday, May 12, 2006 The problem of enforced conviviality at the NSW bar ... Judge Judy once again finds she’s not biased against Stephen Archer ... Martin Bryant's solicitor missing in action ... Recent sightings of legal luminaries ... Former CJ in cat fight ... From Justinian's archive, May 12, 2006
Bar Talk • Saturday, January 1, 2000 It's 1981 and the NSW bar's ethics committee has dismissed suggestions from Athol Moffitt that two Melbourne barristers weren't plying their trade in accordance with the high standards of the Sydney bar ... Suggestions that the trial was protracted by irrelevancies and the use of extreme language - thrown out by the ethics inspectors ... Crushing blow for Court of Criminal Appeal ... From Justinian's Déjà Vu department
Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Roderick Pitt Meagher has taken over the leadership of the NSW bar at a crucial time in its history ... Here Justinian gets up close to the man at the helm ... "Idiots" at the Law Reform Commission trying to meddle in bar's affairs ... Finding it hard to escape the Dark Ages ... Meagher's first ever interview ... Justinian, February 1980
NSW Bar Association, Roddy Meagher