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 >>
Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... 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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Deja Vu • Friday, December 16, 2022 Book review ... Portraits on Yellow Paper by P.R. Meagher and Simon Fieldhouse reviewed by Michael Kirby ... The reviewer sprinkles caustic comments about former appeal justice's character assassinations ... From the archives ... April 7, 2004
Michael Kirby, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Did DPP Nick Cowdery mislead the attorney general? ... Prisoner whose conviction had been quashed seeks ex gratia payment ... Opposed by the DPP ... After more than eight years the NSW Court of Appeal decides, sort of ... Molomby vanquished ... From Justinian's Archive ... December 4, 2003
Deja Vu • Thursday, November 24, 2022 Contempt verdict over Plain English outburst ... Ruddster's "P" for the High Court ... Activist hack's dire warning on judicial appointments ... The living' is easy for Tubby Callinan ... Toad Hall comes to Mallesons ... Adding up the bills in the big, fat Channel Seven litigation ... Theodora reports ... From Justinian's Archive, January 16, 2008
Theodora • Friday, August 26, 2022 From June 2003, a reprise of Theodora's notebook ... Wild predictions on viceroy appointment ... Michael Kirby's keeps his money to himself ... Media chillers on the bench ... Federal Court tiff ... Victoria's Labor government on silken baubles ... Travel expenses for High Court judges at conferenceville ... Mary Gaudron's slow clock
Bar Talk • Wednesday, July 20, 2022 The John Cummins tax saga ... JC, QC, AJC ... Failure to lodge tax returns for 40 years ... Estranged wife ordered to send half the proceeds of the sale of Hunters Hill home to the bankruptcy trustee ... Mary Cummins catering business escapes the trustee's clutches ... From Justinian's archive, October 1, 2002
Goings on ... What was life like in 2000 ... Theodora ... Déjà Vu ... From Justinian's archive, December 15, 2000 ... John Marsden ... SCs in Victoria ... NT's silk selection process ... Self regulation is not the same as regulation ... Corrs blimey ... Harts & Flowers
Deja Vu • Thursday, May 26, 2022 Slices from Justinian's past ... There's an eerie familiarity to old news ... Sharing tidings from the hard copy era ... From Justinian's archive ... Stories from March 1988 and December 1994
NSW politics, Stuart Littlemore Deja Vu • Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Alec Shand v Jackson McDonald ... Excessive and unreasonable fees ... Law firm refuses to cough-up for Laurie Connell defence ... Charging for time not worked ... Unprepared ... Scandalous, even for a second-hand car dealer ... Gouging the rich ... Stephen Archer on hand ... From Justinian's archive, September 1999
Barristers' fees The Map • Tuesday, June 16, 2020 City Desk ... Silken art critic floored … Restraint of Dr Scutt fades … BYO at The Tasmanian Club …Well done Wayne ... Entire family escapes public hanging ... From Justinian's Archive, April 30, 2003
Map of Tasmania Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Author Bri Lee's book Eggshell Skull scoops up another prize - this time at the Australian Book Industry Awards ... A story of childhood sexual assault ... While the book continues to collect awards, the author's view about how natural justice ought to work should be read with caution ... Lawyer Joanna Jenkins' critique
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Enjoying a Slice of Samoa ... Fees burnt in Cauldron blaze ... "Don't hesitate - litigate" ... More prosecutors take to the bench
Monday, November 28, 2016 Launch of Stephen Walmsley's book The Trials of Justice Murphy ... Legal and political history ... Mixed crowd from the law, journalism and literature receive David Marr's speech in frosty silence ... Despite the jury verdict, the question remains, why did Lionel do it? ... Marr's launch speech, unexpurgated
Saturday, November 5, 2016 Barrister wants his name and critical paragraphs removed from FCC judgment ... Donors' Day ... Application for suppression of the juicy bits ... Sperm donor parenting dispute ... Naaman Zhou reports
Thursday, August 11, 2016 Choice cuts from Ian Hancock's biography of Tom Hughes, A Cab on the Rank ... A painful move from 11 Selborne ... Skyrocketing fees ... Great cases ... Lionel Murphy - "not an easy client" ... Diary observations of judges, barristers and bar etiquette
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Allen Allen & Hemsley's Uncle Charlie tax scheme for Sir John Kerr ... Kerr's last drunken months as GG were spent planning an elaborate tax subterfuge ... Cloak and dagger for Mr Frederick King
Friday, May 20, 2016 Marketing breakthrough as barrister appears on the side of trams ... Reptiles of the media warned not to connect coke sniffing associate with Federal Court judges ... Gilbert + Tobin spruces its image but keeps the plus ... Industrial action - how the Poms campaigned effectively against Cameron government's legal aid cuts
Sunday, March 20, 2016 Barrister's defamation case becomes a car crash ... Range Rover scraped by barrister's garage door ... Email to neighbours complaining about barrister's behaviour ... Jury goes for the truth defence
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Fraudulent litigation ... Bodgy debts to circumvent real creditors ... Defamation actions to wash money ... Moldovan courts to the rescue of Russian gangsters ... Italian divorces in Maidenhead
Monday, May 11, 2015 Record numbers of law graduates being minted ... Australia currently producing one new graduate per 2,000 head of population ... Universities cranking them out ... More lawyers per head than the USA ... Comparative lawyer output in Britain, Canada and the USA ... Bright futures dimming