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 >>
Letter from London ... Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... 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 >>
Justinian's archive
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
Justinian
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
City Desk • Monday, July 15, 2013 Justice Virginia Bell explains some of the tensions in contemporary art movements as she opens stylish exhibition ... Official launch party for Guardian Australia ... Sharp elbows at Carriageworks
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, July 9, 2013 Corporate mercenaries settle with Iraqi victims ... While Abu Ghraib contractor ducks liability for torture ... Corporates and conservatives generally pleased after Supreme Court's latest term ... British newspaper scoops US media on major security story ... Spying on attorneys at Gitmo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports
Clarence Thomas, FISA, Military Commissions, NSA, Torture, US Supreme Court, War crimes City Desk • Monday, July 8, 2013 Steve Mark, chief of the Bureau de Spank, says goodbye ... He believes the OLSC's handling of Keddies was "a major success" ... Cultural Regulation v Behavioural Regulation
OLSC, Steve Mark Goings On ... • Monday, July 8, 2013 New record for Roughshagger … Law Society goes the extra mile for an old mate … Defenders grapple with "evidence of silence" … The Australian's bereft partnership survey … Malcolm Turnbull's marvellous air-brushing machine … Soapy out of the shadows
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Critical findings on critical incidents ... In a scathing report the NSW Police Integrity Commission comes down against the coppers and their blundering cover-up of the Adam Salter shooting ... Flawed internal reviews ... Recommendation for police to be charged with perjury ... Alix Piatek reports
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Solicitor off the track over "voidness" scam … The Keddies wash-up - no professional misconduct for $215,000 over-charge … Depression and despair win the day for solicitor in dysfunctional partnership ... Bureaux de Spank spanked
Sir Terence O'Rort • Friday, June 21, 2013 Allegations of witness tampering and falsified evidence in the Sunland case ... Matthew Joyce caught in the desert of Dubai ... Sunland v Prudentia ... Devastating judgment from Vic Supremo ... What next? ... Surely the stipes should probe ... Sir Terence O'Rort on the warpath
Procrustes • Friday, June 21, 2013 Where else but Queensland? ... The monarchist puppy disguised as an attorney general ... QCs ... Why not do it properly and bring back serjeants-at-law, coifs and heraldic devices? ... Plus, the High Court leaves us ever more exposed to executive action, without a shield ... Procrustes on his high horse
Condon v Pompano, High Court, Jarrod Bleijie, QCs, Queensland Goings On ... • Monday, June 17, 2013 Not only will the treasury benches be rejigged after September 14, so too will the High Court ... Soapy Brandis' vanity bauble ... Legal outsourcing in Van Diemen's Land ... Homework for litigants ... Love at the Lubyanka ... Stand-off between Wayne's World and the WA AG ... Oz legal affairs section wilting ... Meritorious appointment caught-up in Pearce attack ... Courts discuss social media policy, but keep the twitterers at bay
Around The Firms • Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Over-billing in PI cases rears its unattractive head, again, as wounded Keddies partner takes on his nemesis, Stephen Firth ... Battle of the big billers ... Mounting claims against hero of the overcharged ... Stinger stung
Keddies, Overcharging, Stephen Firth Court in the Act • Wednesday, June 5, 2013 All at sea ... Latest round in VicAppeals on the David Forster disaster ... HMAS Voyager tragedy ... Explanations about double payments of disbursements "unsatisfactory" ... "Unorthodox" rectification ... Funds from law firm property sale stay frozen ... Receivers chasing $2.72 million
Court in the Act • Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Slender line-up of MPs put the lie to Obeid's ICAC evidence ... The requirement to notify commission of corrupt conduct has been ignored for years ... Hence Eddie and others have thumbed their snouts at the corruption fighting body ... Alex Mitchell reports
Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Ian Macdonald, Stuart Littlemore Hellfire Club • Monday, May 27, 2013
Updated on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 by
Justinian
It took a while, but the Bureau de Spank succeeds in getting solicitor with a disastrous track record struck from the roll ... Failure to turn up in court ... Failure to answer the Bureau's letters ... Out of contact for five months overseas ... Trust account and MCLE disarray
Around The Firms • Monday, May 27, 2013 How not to shaft masters of the universe ... Massaging the message - the art of the media release ... "We've got wood" ... What's wrong with the name "King & Wood Mallesons"?
King & Wood Mallesons, Retrenchments Around The Firms • Friday, May 24, 2013 QC drafts letter for Allens, which makes "thinly veiled" threat to Vic CJ ... "Grossly improper" attempt to influence the court ... Full throttle grovel
Allens, Litigation, Marilyn Warren, Rodney Garratt Goings On ... • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Dyson Heydon's top 10 books of the nineteenth century … From Memoires d'Outre Tombe to The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian … Dyse's faves from a golden time
Dyson Heydon, Rodney Cavalier
CJ's opinions collide with the law
Speechifying and the creation of new law ... Queensland CJ de Jersey at it again ... Personal views differ from what the law says ... Beyond reasonable doubt ... Right to silence ... Prior convictions ... All up for grabs in Queensland ... What's a juror to think? ... From Peter Callaghan QC
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