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 >>
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Barry Lane • Monday, November 5, 2012 Catholic Church's long history of abuse by priests ... Cover-up ... Parliamentary investigation ... The Three Ds ... Running the rabbit ... The whitewash of "independent" investigations ... Vic Police uncover "shocking" figures ... Barry Lane files
Catholic Church, Child sex offences Artemus Jones • Saturday, November 3, 2012 No sooner had he stepped down from the High Court than Bill Gummow is on the lecture circuit ... Artemus Jones was on hand at the Queensland Banco Court to soak-up the vibe ... The end of empire
Australian Constitution, Bill Gummow Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, November 2, 2012 New term for US Supremes ... Certiorari petitions ... Critical mass theory of constitutional change ... Presidential election and the court ... Judicial techniques ... Conspiracy as a war crime ... The CIA agent who didn't torture winds-up in jail ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Experienced NSW criminal barrister caught in property development catastrophe … Misleading evidence to Dizzo proceedings brought to retrieve money … Professional misconduct … More despair from the Bureau de Spank
Hellfire Club • Saturday, October 27, 2012 Former partner in over his head with house purchase and renovations ... False rental expense claims in tax returns ... Defrauding the Commonwealth ... Bankruptcy, jail, struck off ... General ruination
Clayton Utz, George Livanes, Tax Hellfire Club • Friday, October 26, 2012 VCAT mucks-up determination of penalty for bankrupt Melbourne barrister who got into bother with his tax ... The extent to which the purchase of "small luxuries" is relevant ... How deep does one's head have to be in the sand ... Twilight years at the bar ... The role of "sympathy" in dishing out a penalty ... Other vexing questions
Barristers tax, Fit & Proper, VCAT Procrustes • Wednesday, October 24, 2012 For an historical trip into a real war look no further than D.S. Bird's Nazi Dreamtime, the story of Australia's very own home-cooked and very cookie Nazis from the 1930s ... Aborigines as "Black Aryans" and other peculiarities ... Procrustes ... Book review
City Desk • Friday, October 19, 2012 Last shout ... Undercurrents at Vic Grill ... Money the root of all trouble ... Mrs K comes up with $4.5 million ... Christmas prezzie for creditors
Russell Keddie, Sarah Key, Victorian Bar Goings On ... • Wednesday, October 17, 2012 UPDATE ... Moaning judges flee MONA family law dinner dance … Tussle for the top Supreme Court post in Van Diemen's Land … Putting a shine on SCs … Female barristers decaying less quickly than males … Pulp fiction's playthings
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Cases piling up against Voyager victims' lawyer ... Aged mariners hope the funds are not entirely exhausted ... Solicitor parries for more delay
David Forster, HMAS Voyager, Striking off Bar Talk • Friday, October 12, 2012 Sydney silk in fees stoush with Brisbane law shop ... Court of Appeal refuses to strike out solicitors' defence and cross-claim ... Allegation of overcharging ... Ballooning estimates
Barristers' fees, Christopher Branson QC, Costs City Desk • Wednesday, October 10, 2012 It's foggy in Barakat-Land ... Is that a Le Wrap? ... Settlement likely with Mrs K ... Hiding assets in clumsy deceits on creditors is something up with which the Law Society should not put
Russell Keddie, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Judges • Friday, October 5, 2012 Quaint ceremony to say farewell to Bill (The Barometer) Gummow … Slight interruption to the special leave applications … Hutley you're now number three in the list
High Court, William Gummow Artemus Jones • Friday, October 5, 2012 Observations on Alan Jones ... Artemus Jones (no relation) on the shoddy quality of public discourse ... Blame social media, where everyone is a publisher and can let fly with half-baked comments ... Free speech quandry
Alan Jones, Public debate, Social media Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, October 2, 2012 After 10 years at Guantánamo Omar Khadr is transferred to prison in Canada ... Convicted of a war crime for lawful actions against an opposing uniformed soldier in a war ... Perversion of the law of war ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Guantanamo, Law of war, Omar Khadr Bar Talk • Friday, September 28, 2012 Exclusive ... Comments received from members on the NSW bar's draft strategic plan ... Groping for a view of the future ... Great struggles with solicitors ... Fee recovery strategies ... Commitment to diversity ... What do barristers have to offer? ... Marketing and more bang for bucks ... Creating an identity ... Better diets ... Access to legal information ... Massive work ahead for the bar association to become relevant
NSW Bar Association, The future Court in the Act • Friday, September 28, 2012 Litigation marathon … Brunswick lawyer out of time for umpteenth review of costs assessment … Ballooning costs for small time motor repair case … More from the Katzenjammer Kids … Has the spillage of ink been quelled?
Leverhulme • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Leverhulme in Dublin ... Amid the economic ruin and social dislocation, judges dispense "justice" in a pecularly Irish manner ... Judge's free-wheeling approach to contempt and libel ... Donegal men don't suffer fools, apparently
Criminal justice, Ireland Polly Peck • Sunday, September 23, 2012 Midway through the High Court's hearing of the Williams' case the government spotted a problem ... Hurried amendments to avoid the possibility of someone going to jail ... Parliament's surrender to the executive ... Rescuing the public service as well as the chaplains ... Polly Peck reports
Goings On ... • Tuesday, September 18, 2012 The Tub - a free speech man, after all … Buckled shoes, ruffs and other refinements for Circuit judges? … Martin Bryant's art obsessed lawyer out of the nick … Life after redundancy