The law and its miracles ... Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld ... Justice Jenni Hill's brother ... More entries for the Golden Tortoise award ... Federal Court muddles the maths, again ... Theodora reports ... Read more >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Being a lawyer can be sheer misery ... Psychological distress ... Workplace incivility ... Lack of support ... Rotten culture ... Report on wellbeing ... More >>
Governance turmoil at Tiny Town Law Society ... Night of the long knives ... Lakeside in Canberra ... ACT Law Society upheaval over governance changes ... Bodies carted out of the council room ... Blood on the carpet ... Fraught litigation another distraction ... From Gang Gang ... Read more >>
Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... Read more >>
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City Desk • Wednesday, August 1, 2012 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
Max Donnelly, Russell Keddie Goings On ... • Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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
ACT bar, Human rights, Rod McGeoch, Struck-off, professional conduct Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, July 29, 2012 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
Hellfire Club • Sunday, July 29, 2012 Prosecutor fined and reprimanded for unsatisfactory conduct in the Mallard case … Notorious WA stitch-up by police … Administrative Tribunal finds prosecutor's conduct "inadvertent" … Failure to disclose evidence … No reasonable evidence to support DPP's submission about murder weapon
Andrew Mallard, Ken Bates, Miscarriage of justice, WA DPP Polly Peck • Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Julian Burnside QC gets the bums rush ... Response from attorney general to questions about US investigations and possible extradition of Julian Assange ... Government reply leaves open the equal possibilities that Canberra knows everything or it knows nothing ... It is certainly doing nothing … Polly Peck reports
Polly Peck • Tuesday, July 24, 2012 Polly Peck sifts the probables and possibles to fill the forthcoming High Court vacancies ... After a series of batterings from the court, Labor could do with some friends at Gar's Mahal ... Notoriously difficult to find true believers these days ... Roxxy on a mission
Carmel McLure, High Court, Nicola Roxon, Pamela tate Hellfire Club • Friday, July 20, 2012 Spanking lawyers for misconduct is a double-handed affair, with professional and statutory bodies passing the parcel between themselves … Fractious row breaks out in Queensland ... Tom Westbrook examines the omelet that is "professional regulation"
Barry Lane • Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Barry Lane chronicles a litany of accidents and deaths that could have been prevented had the police and civil aviation authorities been more on the mark ... Barry wants an online public register of convicted drunk drivers and for CASA to get tougher with offending pilots
Stephen Keim • Monday, July 16, 2012 Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne, from Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, dissect the UK Supreme Court's decision which prompted Julian Assange to seek asylum in Ecuador ... Independent safeguard not discovered in the phrase "judicial authority"
Goings On ... • Friday, July 13, 2012 Keddie's forgotten London property … Former client advises Royal Family to be careful of Keddie connection … Partners' property assets in deep freeze … Chief Judge Reg Blanch accused of running a "monkey room" in Hong Kong
Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Regular "reform" prevents there being any ... Pleadings and the generation of highly profitable crap ... How to make procedural rules better (i.e. worse) ... Tulkinghorn on the reform caper
Civil law reform, Law reform, Pleadings, Woolf reforms Procrustes • Friday, June 29, 2012 How far ahead can the government lock-in High Court appointments? ... Why is Soapy Brandis so unbearably smug? ... How do we solve the problem of refugee boats? ... Procrustes asks ... And answers
Dyson Heydon, George Brandis, Refugees Leverhulme • Wednesday, June 27, 2012 A busy time for Leverhulme ... At the Leveson inquiry ... Covent Garden for a superb night with Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna ... Then to Royal Ascot to watch Black Caviar come home by a nose
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, June 25, 2012 US Supremes summarily dismiss review of Citizens United ... Judicial appointments frozen ... Obama's drone frenzy makes him "hit-man-in-chief" ... Guantánamo trials seek to neuter Republican bellicosity ... The sham of habeas hearings ... Our Man in Washington reports
Citizens United, Drones, Guantanamo, Habeas, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Yarraside Yarns • Friday, June 22, 2012 Criminalisation of bullying … Brodie's Law falls flat … Difficulties in opening the new frontiers of bully law … Subspecies of harassment … Former judge says it's lagging behind the "sun-smart" campaign as an awareness issue … Sylvia Varnham O'Regan's Yarraside Yarns
Brodie's Law, Bullying, Crimes Act City Desk • Thursday, June 21, 2012 There's another $1.7 million in Keddie assets that trustee Max Donnelly might get his hands on … Prospective dividend at the moment from estate stands at 25 cents in the dollar … More fees for Ferrier Hodgson … Full report to creditors from trustee
Bankruptcy, Max Donnelly, Russell Keddie Around The Firms • Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Consequences for gun-hating PI prince following misconduct finding … Not fit and proper for LawCover board ... Yet still OK for Law Society council ... Pinged for relatively insignificant touting
Court in the Act • Monday, June 18, 2012
Updated on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 by
Justinian
Bankruptcy - Russell Keddie's latest stunt ... Millions owing to former clients and lawyers ... Transfer of assets to be unravelled ... Roulstone and Barakat next in line to go belly-up? ... Substantial amounts owed to tax man ... Remember Gus Cummins "QC AJC" and the Hunters Hill "transfer"?
Bankruptcy, Russell Keddie Polly Peck • Friday, June 15, 2012 Shock jock demagogue Ray Hadley starts bullying politicians to crush proposed reforms to the Bail Act ... LRC report not yet before cabinet ... Police muscle on display ... Opponents don't like the sound of "presumption in favour of bail" ... But don't quite understand what it means ... Listen up
Bail Act, Greg Smith, Ray Hadley Court in the Act • Friday, June 15, 2012 Fabulous sentencing transcript from County Court, Victoria ... Judge James Montgomery and counsel wrestle with the dates and the years ... Pythonesque proceedings ... Court reporter struggles to keep up ... Tears to the eyes
Judge James Montgomery, Sentencing