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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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
City Desk • Friday, September 14, 2012 Attorney General Smith out of the loop on tweaking right to silence … Another police-driven initiative … Much squirming in Macquarie Street
Evidence Act, Greg Smith, Right to silence Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 14, 2012 Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric?
Jack Balkin, Justice Virginia Bell, The Simpsons Hellfire Club • Thursday, September 13, 2012 HMAS Voyager survivors waiting for their money as former solicitor lodges appeals against revocation of his ticket and extension of receivership ... More disciplinary cases in the pipeline ... Receiver looking to claw back $7.15 million from overcharged fees ... Trial timetable
David Forster, HMAS Voyager, Striking off Court in the Act • Wednesday, September 12, 2012 While bankers and economists are absorbed by the mechanics of the proposed bail-out of the Greek economy, our Athens correspondent Alex Mitchell considers the condition of Greece's criminal justice system ... Rex Jackson would be proud
City Desk • Friday, September 7, 2012 Legal digital commons ... First 100 volumes of the CLRs being scanned and made publicly available ... Latest BarNet-Jade venture ...Initiative of innovative Sydney barristers ... Where's the Bar Association?
BarNet, CLRs, High Court, Jade, One to 100 Procrustes • Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Dyson Heydon weaves his magic in two of the latest decisions from on High ... Patel and Zentai ... Plus, Proscrustes delves into his clipping file to fish out more on the cosy relationship between Pel-Air and the government ... History of crashing aeroplanes
Dyson Heydon, Four Corners, High Court, Pel-Air