Monday
Oct142013
Soapy Watch
Polly Peck • Monday, October 14, 2013 New AG to protect judges from free speech attacks ... Silence on announcements should not detract from exciting policy initiatives ... Polly Peck reports
Justinian's archive
Polly Peck • Monday, October 14, 2013 Monday
Oct142013
Salon de Refusés
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
tagged GD Wendler, NSW Bar Association, Silk selection
GD Wendler, NSW Bar Association, Silk selection Friday
Oct112013
Out in the midday sun
Leverhulme • Friday, October 11, 2013 Things can only get worse ... Courts in a muddle about technology ... Dame Heather Hallett on Australian subtlety ... Parliament Hall, Edinburgh ... Professional liability barrister authors recipes for Proper Puddings ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Thursday
Oct102013
Pride and Prejudice
Judges • Thursday, October 10, 2013 Failed application to remove Justice Kate McMillan from Victorian damages case against The Age ... Lengthy regurgitation of transcript ... Trying to get focus ... Failure to make notes ... Lack of judicial eye contact ... Misapplication of the word "garlic" ... Curt and non-embracing ... Alix Piatek reports
tagged Apprehended bias, The Age
Apprehended bias, The Age Wednesday
Oct022013
By George
Goings On ... • Wednesday, October 2, 2013 A rorters catalogue ... RIP "Sir" Arthur George ... Soapy George Brandis and his slippery expense claims ... Wedding business and a sense of entitlement ... New attorney general crippled at the start
Monday
Sep302013
More blockbusters coming to you
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, September 30, 2013 Israel given unfiltered NSA data ... All phone calls in the US are "relevant to terrorism" ... Defence contractor successfully sues torture victims for costs ... NY designates city mosques as "terrorism enterprises" ... US Supremes in need of a code of conduct ... Nixon on judicial appointments ... Roger Fitch files from the town in the process of shutting down
tagged NSA, Torture, US Supreme Court, War on terror
NSA, Torture, US Supreme Court, War on terror Monday
Sep302013
Loose seams at Team Barry
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
tagged NSW government
NSW government Monday
Sep302013
Contraction and globalisation bring out the claws
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
tagged Summer clerkships
Summer clerkships Sunday
Sep292013
Trying to scrub clean the internet
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
tagged Ashurst, Fairfax Media, Internet publications, Paladin
Ashurst, Fairfax Media, Internet publications, Paladin Wednesday
Sep042013
Judicial denial
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
Tuesday
Sep032013
George cares
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
tagged ASIO, Asylum seekers, George Brandis, Legal aid
ASIO, Asylum seekers, George Brandis, Legal aid Friday
Aug302013
Basten Chambers
Goings On ... • Friday, August 30, 2013 High-rise glamour for new chambers ... Looking at lawyers' productivity ... Inner sanctum for LegalSuper ... Ornaments of parliamentary democracy
Tuesday
Aug272013
Polly wolly doodle all the day
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
Sunday
Aug252013
Race for the money
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
tagged Clive Evatt, Costs, Defamation, Mamdouh Habib
Clive Evatt, Costs, Defamation, Mamdouh Habib Friday
Aug162013
The Hyde of this Page boy
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
Monday
Aug122013
You're under surveillance
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
tagged Aiding the enemy, Edward Snowden, Law of war, NSA, Surveillance
Aiding the enemy, Edward Snowden, Law of war, NSA, Surveillance Friday
Aug092013
Nuts on the quarter-mast
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
tagged Baker & McKenzie, ICAC, John Atkinson, John McGuigan
Baker & McKenzie, ICAC, John Atkinson, John McGuigan Wednesday
Aug072013
Appendix 3
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
tagged David Ipp, Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Ian Macdonald, Stuart Littlemore, Tim Hale
David Ipp, Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Ian Macdonald, Stuart Littlemore, Tim Hale Friday
Aug022013
Is this the best defence, ever?
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