Hands up for silk in Queensland

Thirty seven hopefuls from the Qld bar have applied for silk ... Including as many as five women ... Aspirations on display

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Judicial politics of health care

Understanding the wrinkles of the "Obamacare" case? ... Politics, law and social policy ... Congress must not regulate "breathing in and out" ... The broccoli argument ... "Specious logic" on the commerce clause ... Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne get to grips with the thinking of the US Supremes 

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The land of trolls

Next legal frontier ... Fighting social media's slaggers and blaggers ... It's a nasty world out in the "carriage service" ... How do you turn it off? ... Sylvia Varnham O'Regan reports 

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Roulstone trustee's first report

Crumbs from the table ... More fiddles and diddles exposed as Scott Roulstone's bankruptcy trustee issues a preliminary report ... Incredibly bloated trust and super funds plus loaded wife ... Report in full 

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Stink in Hobart

Government House sewerage gushing into Taswegian botanical gardens ... Will solicitor general Sealy resolve the stand-off? ... Whips out as NSW legal aid lawyers grab CLE points for S & M seminar ... Leather pride versus communicating with Asian clients ... News flashes 

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The President's right to kill Americans

Clients at the Bay ... Everyone's getting tired of "targeted killings" by the "serial assassin" ... Brits pay compo to resident mistreated at Gitmo ... How to make cases go away ... DoJ drops Goldman Sachs prosecution ... Huge public disapproval of Congress ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Good old new boy

Contrary to popular theory, Solicitor General Stephen Gageler did not advise the government that all would be well with squeezing the "Malaysian solution" into the Migration Act ... Far from it ... The Attorney General knows that and so too the PM 

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No doubt about it

Tony Barakat caught in last minute trust manoeuvre ... Attempt to diddle creditors thwarted as funds frozen ... Stacks win $300,000 costs order from Keddies for hopeless professional negligence action ... Court of Appeal dumbfounded by Scott Roulstone's evidence 

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Canada can find the war crimes that Australia can't

AFP's once-over-lightly investigation of the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia ... Findings in Canada that Sri Lankan navy was involved in crimes against humanity ... We turn a blind eye because there's an expectation the Sri Lankan navy assists in preventing asylum seekers from reaching Australia 

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Bankruptcy bollocks

Exclusive … Keddies Kapers ... Preliminary report by Tony Barakat's bankruptcy trustee ... Millions squirreled in trusts and super out of reach of creditors ... Properties in wife's name ... Hurried transfers to be unravelled … Scott Roulstone's statement of affairs … Unfit and improper 

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The slippery slope of over-charging

In another world it might be fraud to charge for something you know is not owing ... For lawyers overcharging morphs into acceptable professional conduct ... For non-lawyers "overcharging" results in jail time ... Tulkinghorn explains 

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The old silk road

NSW bar attracts a big, fat list of silk contenders … Many women apply … Lots of names from last year … Smallbone principle takes effect … Full list of applicants 

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Charting the future

NSW bar looks for ways to stay bobbing in a turbulent sea ... Economic ideas to the fore in strategy plan ... Relevancy deprivation syndrome could be a factor ... Where are the bar's public voices? 

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Runaway Greek judge gets 12 years porridge

Justinian's man in Athens, Alex Mitchell, reports on a scandal at the heart of Greece's judicial system ... Glamorous, accused judge does a runner ... Eventually hauled back to face the Athenian courts over perverting the course of justice and money laundering ... How else can you make a living in Greece? 

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Lights, action, wallop

Pros and cons of video cams attached to uniforms of Victorian police ... A check on heavy handed law enforcement ... A disencentive to concoct complaints against the coppers ... Sexting under review by Victorian parliament ... Sylvia Varnham O'Regan reports from Yarraside 

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Trust me, I'm a lawyer

Collapsed Equititrust boss returning to the law ... Money lending - Gold Coast style ... Negligence and breach of duties by Indians, not the Chiefs ... Lawyers know best ... Barry Lane reports 

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Lympic delirium

Leverhulme in Chancery Lane after the Twitter "joke" case ... Free speech in the Old Dart ... Wallopers swoop on Twitterer who was rude about Olympic diving hero ... Lord Denning on Desert Island Discs ... New President of the Supreme Court's rocky beginning in the law 

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Russell's dividend

Scratching around Russell Keddie's estate to find a few bob for creditors … $23 million in claims against the former multi-millionaire solicitor … Public examination of Mr & Mrs Keddie … Creditors' meeting … Max Donnelly's third report 

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Moles and field agents report

Updated on Friday, August 3, 2012 by Justinian

Chinatown ... ACT's silk applications (update) ... Olympic hero struts his stuff ... PR man Pelly splits with NSW AG ... Jobs for the NSW Law Society boys ... Human rights jamboree 

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Buying democracy

The best Supreme Court that money can buy ... Republican appointees perform like "plutocratic hacks" ... Electoral spending and voting laws ... Latest torture news ... Drone killings prompt civil cases for wrongful deaths ... Bush lawyer urges repeal of "Hague Invasion Act" ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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