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 >>
A Girl Called Sue ... Latest rigamarole in Linda Reynolds v The Commonwealth ... 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 >>
Justinian's archive
Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, April 14, 2013 Old guard rallies to the cause of female CIA agent glorified fictionally in Zero Dark 30 ... Latest from US Supremes, including forthcoming important gene patent case ... Secret no-fly lists tested in court ... DoJ's sweetheart deals with badly behaved banks and bankers ... George W. Bush's Liberty and Freedom Institute opens for business ... Our Man in Washington
Around The Firms • Saturday, April 13, 2013 Is Allan Myers the only silk in Melbourne? ... Clayton Utz insists on having this singular barrister to fend off claims by former partner Chris Dale ... Spectre of Rolah McCabe and document destruction ... Appeal against orders that Myers should not appear for the firm ... On and on it goes
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Judges • Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Ithaca on the horizon ... Pineapple Mafia sharpening its implements ... Tutt-Tutt ... Wall-banging on the Gold Coast ... A Clare view of the law ... Murph surfs to a victory over the Legal Services Commissioner
City Desk • Sunday, April 7, 2013 Justinian interviews iconic court reporters Julie Johnson and Margaret Kirkpatrick ... Behind-the-scenes intricacies of electronic shorthand ... Capturing forever the highs and lows of court proceedings ... Judges who show consideration ... A vital cog in the justice system
Court reporting, Shorthand Around The Firms • Thursday, April 4, 2013 Boosterism and law firm marketing ... Buffing the image with hype and lofty, but empty, messages ... The challenge of global positioning ... Alix Piatek reports
Around The Firms • Thursday, March 28, 2013 Gilded orb of the Yarraside bar removed from appearing for Clayton Utz in bitter litigation over sacking of partner Christopher Dale ... Silk can't remember meeting and giving advice that is now the subject of litigation
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Court in the Act • Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Mining companies hold the trump cards in getting access to farmland ... Unlike the Obeids, not all rural landholders are bending over backwards to have coal explorers blight the bucolic landscape ... Shortage of adequate agents and knowledgeable arbitrators
Around The Firms • Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Unnerving sexual harassment campaign by suburban Melbourne solicitor ... Female member of staff awarded $100,000 damages ... Secret video of prolonged and repetitive harassment ... Solicitor's denials shot down by his own video ... Transcript - read it and weep
Sexual harassment City Desk • Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Court swap ... Villawood trial in the Supreme Court heard in old Dizzo digs ... Interpreters and lawyers dig-in for the long haul ... Alix Piatek visits with her notebook
Tulkinghorn • Monday, March 18, 2013 The fusion that dares not speak its name ... How many lawyers does it take ...? ... Solicitors and barristers - differences ... Supreme Court decisions on legal aid rulings in Victoria show the extent of the barristers-judges fusion ... Tulkinghorn explains
Barristers, Fusion, Legal aid, Legal profession, Solicitors Court in the Act • Friday, March 15, 2013 Ex-wife of former UK cabinet minister convicted of perverting course of justice ... Pryce's confidentiality lost when Sunday Times abandoned appeal ... The secret source in speeding scandal who became the story ... Others also drawn into the wreckage ... Paul Karp investigates
City Desk • Thursday, March 14, 2013 Melbourne lawyer dobbed into managing partner by journalist who objected to her Tweets ... Journalistic mistake corrected, but war of words erupts on social media ... What's with journalists being sensitive? ... Alix Piatek reports
Court in the Act • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Unsuccessful claim by solicitors that a costs agreements with a barrister is unenforceable ... Legal Profession Act allows fees to be recovered by a barrister from a solicitor even where there is no legal services contract
Barristers' fees City Desk • Monday, March 11, 2013 Exciting new brooms in the boardroom of NSW Legal Aid ... Commodore Collins hired to slay plans for green slip and motor accident reform
Greg Smith, Legal aid, Peter Colliins Judges • Saturday, March 9, 2013 The Map of Tasmania ... Madge Marron birched again, this time by the CJ-in-waiting ... Traffic Act trauma ... New Supremos
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, March 8, 2013 Gongs for drone crews ... Military detention for civilians ... Australia listed among the countries that collaborated with the CIA's "detention, rendition and interrogation" program ... Court vacancies at crisis point ... NRA lobbying on judicial appointments ... Clarence Thomas speaks ... Roger Fitch - Our Man in Washington
Drones, Military detention, US Supreme Court Bar Talk • Thursday, March 7, 2013 Barrister branding … War of the post-nominals … Tidal wave of support at Yarraside Bar 'n' Grill for gold plating the business … Letters Patent-Leather and the return of QCs
Queens Counsel, Victorian Bar Court in the Act • Monday, March 4, 2013 Punters' peril ... $400,000 damages for professional negligence confiscated from client because solicitor enjoyed immunity ... Five judge panel flexes its brain power to bolster the fortress
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
Stepping backwards out of the dark
Chief Justice Paul de Jersey dominated the news agenda with a speech suggesting that it was time juries have more information about an accused's other offences ... Queensland criminal barrister Peter Callaghan SC has his reservations
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