Time's Up for Naughty Nathan ... Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled ... Misuse of online funding campaigns ... Spraying ripe and abusive language ... Trolling Robert Beech-Jones ... So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Sex, Bribes, and Club Fed ... Ms Maxwell comes out … Sex offender gets Bryan … The merry-go-round of sleaze … Protection rackets and shake-downs … Flashing orange light for Moloch … Thank God for rigged figures … Morpheus awake ... Read on >>
Wither the Republic ...Twenty years of Roger Fitch ... He says this is his last column from Washington ... A brief history of American law and governance since Bush II ... The Roberts' court and reshaping the Constitution ... Hollowing out the Bill of Rights ... Murdoch's malign influence ... Shakedowns and bribes ... Read more >>
Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and Betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... Plenty to think about ... Court reporter Ginger Snatch files ... Read more >>
Abolish silks ... Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002 ... Read more >>
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City Desk • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Dyson Heydon, a clever troglodyte, handed the spotlight by the Addams family ... Extraordinary powers to explore anything and anyone ... Recalling some of Dyse's finest historical and literary flourishes
Leverhulme • Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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Britain gripped by old codger sex trials ... Coronation Street star has no memory of his accusers ... For Leverhulme, the world seems upside down ... "Judge Grendal" asks, where was the judge? ... London Calling
Sex offences, Sexual harassment Goings On ... • Thursday, February 6, 2014 Liberals and monarchists combine to push Victorian silks into QC option ... SCs dash for the bauble ... Creative destruction grabs law journalism by the throat ... Fresh judgment from Justice Roughshagger ... Bottle of bubbly cracked over the bow of P.G. Hely Chambers
Polly Peck • Monday, February 3, 2014 Changing guard at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption ... The life story of Justice Megan Latham ... Inspector Dave battens down the hatches ... Plan B for Abbott & Co ... Political crime sleuth Alex Mitchell reports
David Levine, ICAC, Justice Megan Latham Goings On ... • Friday, January 31, 2014 Upending free speech in the Top End ... A terrible Christmas time in The Map
Bar Talk • Thursday, January 30, 2014 Victorian silks pledge to be nice to wymyn barristers ... Bar-O-Meter ... Not all plain sailing for hurdlers doing the Quantum Leap ... Alix Piatek reports
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 Barry Lane • Tuesday, January 7, 2014 County Court of Victoria and the serious injury business ... WorkSafe bonuses to law firms ... $5m to Lander & Rogers ... VWA loses around 80 percent of the cases it contests ... Barry Lane remembers the Salvatore Verga litigation ... Chick Lander and his SOD-off policy
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Repetition of the same error does not amount to "consistent" conduct ... Property finance scam ... Law Society's case goes nowhere on appeal ... However, distressing findings in bank loans contract case ... And forgetting to tell the bar association all the bad things that happened in life ... Reporter Alix Piatek
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Year in review from Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch ... National Rifle Association's dreams come true ... Business lobby group wants more exploitation of the masses ... Guantánamo 11 years on ... Gay rights take hold ... As does the NSA
Gay rights, Guantanamo, NRA, NSA Around The Firms • Monday, December 16, 2013 Firms still adapting to globalised market ... Mergers completed as firms settle into new skins ... Lean year - time to trim down ... Thriving or surviving ... What's next? ... Law shops - a swift review of the year's activity
Clerks, Globalisation, Mergers, Year in review Tulkinghorn • Monday, December 16, 2013 Judges still able to sue for swimming pool or kitchen remodelling payouts ... Public choice theory ... Pursuit of judicial self-interest ... Employing relatives and friends as associates ... Hearing bias applications ... Pension benefits ... Judges declare that they should be able to sue for defamation damages ... Tulkinghorn on the case
Judicial bias, Judicial self-interest 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
Polly Peck • Monday, December 9, 2013 Brandis watch ... Uncomfortable straddle on free speech ... Where was Soapy when the "F*** Tony Abbott" T-shirts were being marched off campus ... The attorney general's forgotten "back door" scheme to injunct the media
Free speech, George Brandis Procrustes • Wednesday, December 4, 2013 Another barney between the WA parliament and Chief Justice Wayne Martin ... Myer chairman and the Tory campaign to knock the Human Rights Commission off its perch ... Procrustes takes us on a journey and brings us full circle back to Wayne Martin and s.18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Breaking the filibuster stranglehold on judicial appointments ... David Hicks appeal assisted by incompetence of military prosecutors ... 136 people identified as victims of CIA torture programs - claims popping-up everywhere ... Right to vote under attack ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, files
CIA torture, David Hicks, Human rights Judges • Monday, December 2, 2013 Premier Barry O'Farrell disallows 2.5 percent pay rise for judges and magistrates ... NSW government wants judges to pay for superannuation increases ... State-federal judge pay relativity at risk ... Judges as "employees" of the state ... Paul Karp reports
Judges' pay, NSW government, SOORT Court in the Act • Wednesday, November 27, 2013 Failure to follow one's own advice ... Adventures in Discovery Land ... High Court goes to town on failure to return privileged doscuments ... Bollicking for NSW Appeals and Marque Lawyers ... Marque's chieftan so eloquant on matters of principle ... Alix Piatek reports