Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >>
Polly gets a cracker ... The Parrot falls from his bully pulpit … Performances … The end of the Wharf Revue … Bruce McClintock on stage at The Onion Club … Freaks on the loose in Washington ... Read on ...
Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >>
London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >>
Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ...
A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ...
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Polly Peck • Monday, September 30, 2013 Jocking for position in the O'Farrell government ... Gilded career ahead for former Freehills person Gabrielle Upton ... Three other women ministers looking wobbly ... Serious adjustment needed by Johnny Howard's old chum, Pru Goward ... Alex Mitchell reports
NSW government Around The Firms • Monday, September 30, 2013 Clerkship offers came out Friday ... Firms use the interview process to bag their competitors ... Contraction sets the tone ... Recruitment numbers chopped in half ... Job Jockey reports
Summer clerkships Around The Firms • Sunday, September 29, 2013 Ashurst Australia comes up against a fiesty anti-nuclear campaigner and her websites ... 75-year-old pensioner sticks to her guns, while Fairfax takes down offending article ... Dealing with lawyers' letters
Ashurst, Fairfax Media, Internet publications, Paladin Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Election policies have to get past the High Court ... The weakest or the strongest arm of government? ... Tulkinghorn explores the difference between legal reasons and real reasons
Procrustes • Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Election that takes us nowhere ... Legal aid only encourages the poor to be "extremely litigious" ... Removing government funded advice for "queue jumpers" ... Coalition seeking to shaft the Constitution ... Procrustes issues a pent-up moan
ASIO, Asylum seekers, George Brandis, Legal aid Goings On ... • Friday, August 30, 2013 High-rise glamour for new chambers ... Looking at lawyers' productivity ... Inner sanctum for LegalSuper ... Ornaments of parliamentary democracy
Polly Peck • Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Lib-Lab ... Your nutshell guide to law and justice policies ... Dreyfus and Brandis hammer and tongs at the "great legal debate" ... Snoresville with flourishes
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 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
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, August 12, 2013 Attorney General Holder promised the Russians that the US wouldn't torture Snowden, and they still wouldn't hand him over ... NSA's "network security agreements" with helpful telecoms ... Stacking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with Republicans ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, on the inner workings of a non-functioning democracy
Aiding the enemy, Edward Snowden, Law of war, NSA, Surveillance Court in the Act • Friday, August 9, 2013 John McGuigan and John Atkinson, former Baker Boys, in the frame at ICAC ... What was it that got these two top-notch lawyers into strife? ... Found by ICAC to be "corrupt" with Corporations Act and Crimes Act charges recommended ... "The shortest distance to a pot of money" proves to be a littered with potholes
Baker & McKenzie, ICAC, John Atkinson, John McGuigan Court in the Act • Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Last minute desperation ... After the ICAC hearing concluded, lawyers for the baddies wheel out a barrow-load of issues ... ICAC investigation should have been run more like a trial ... Ipp squelches Hale and Littlemore ... Gratuitous complaints about counsel assisting dismissed
David Ipp, Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Ian Macdonald, Stuart Littlemore, Tim Hale Court in the Act • Friday, August 2, 2013 Defence pleadings of an exceptional quality in Queensland District Court case ... Notice of intention to defend ... Abuse of process ... The Vibe ... Defamation ... The works ... There should be more pleadings in this style
Polly Peck • Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Updated on Thursday, August 1, 2013 by
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Little Laurie Glanfield out of favour with Barry O'Farrell ... Top bureaucrats reshuffled ... Not long before Laurie shuffles off to Buffalo ... Greg Pearce ponging badly ... Updated with latest development on Pearce sacking ... From political reporter Alex Mitchell
Goings On ... • Monday, July 29, 2013 Judging Gov. Arthur Phillip ... Spiggsy comes out for a book launch ... Law Society farewells the Legal Servo Commish ... Remembering a dotty crown psychiatrist ... The Delilah Syndrome
City Desk • Monday, July 29, 2013 Gay weddings and the state ... Is the law leaving Abbott behind? ... A flurry of opinionistas on whether the John Howard version of marriage is the end of the matter ... Whether State law would be inconsistent with the Commonwealth's ... Constitutional hanky-panky
Constitution, Marriage Goings On ... • Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Wrong byline on Law Society prez's article in the Fin Review ... Seeking the "number one" barrister in the land ... Lionel Murphy's ALAO anniversary celebrated in enemy territory
John Dobson, Law Society NSW, Legal aid, Lionel Murphy City Desk • Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Another step in the search for gender equality in legal practice ... "Thought leadership" from the NSW Law Society ... More of the same ... Inquiries needed into the role of men and the management of law firms ... Attrition and reengagement ... Alix Piatek reports
Tulkinghorn • Monday, July 15, 2013
Updated on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by
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Cracked trials ... Last minute change of plea from guilty to not guilty ... Consequences for the financial interests of lawyers ... Judges know about lawyers' financially driven shenanigans, but they keep shtum ... Tulkinghorn on how the system is mulcted