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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Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Littlemore peddles loosely-stitched thesis to Fink … Human Rights Commission beds down with Rio Tinto … Sound and fury from a Murdoch editor, signifying nothing … Styles v Clutz - parties issue peachy settlement sentiments … State media invaded by Poland
Tulkinghorn • Monday, November 28, 2011 Judges and their reasoning ... Politics and precedent ... How judges use reasons as window dressing ... Tulkinghorn explores those extralegal criteria
French CJ, Judicial reasoning, Malaysia Solution Polly Peck • Friday, November 25, 2011 Stepping up, stepping down ... Who's who in a prospective new year Canberra reshuffle ... Poor Harry Jenkins falling on his parliamentary cutlery is just the beginning ... Polly Peck suggests there is more knife work to come
Sir Terence O'Rort • Friday, November 25, 2011 Silk appointments gridlocked ... Old favourites rejected, again ... Grim economic conditions for juniors ... Helpful advice on how barristers can ingratiate themselves ... Constable Plod takes an insensitive attitute to late BAS and tax returns ... Sir Terence O'Rort explores the misery
Silk selection Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Mystery person offering settlements for Stephen Firth's clients to withdraw their overcharging cases against Keddies ... Injunction sought ... Former Keddies' partners give undertakings pending further hearing
Keddies, Overcharging, Slater & Gordon Barry Lane • Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Solicitors are unlikely to be entirely jinxed if caught "resting" payments to barristers ... Famous Victorian cheque rester Gary Singer has gone from strength to strength in the art world, along with the rise of the withdrawal fee ... Barry Lane explores some intricate artistic-legal connections
Bureau de Spank, Gary Singer, Geoffrey Smith, NGV, Sotherby's Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, November 21, 2011 Former general counsel of the CIA under investigation over drone attack "murder" remark ... War crimes don't need a war (apparently) ... Novel offences likely to remain on the books ... Ideological Republican circuit judges flout the Supreme Court ... Our Man in Washington reports
Procrustes • Friday, November 18, 2011 High Court judges love the adornment of historical learning ... Dyse leads the way ... History-laden scornful asides ... Even an assault on the Vic AG for daring to introduce his human rights legislation ... Procrustes delves into the separation of criticisms
Dyson Heydon, High Court Hellfire Club • Friday, November 18, 2011 Overcharging - how gross ... Keddie hearing next April ... Judge Jim Curtis carefully exposes overbilling regime at Keddies ... The leveraging of time and money
Keddies, Russell Keddie, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Bar Talk • Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Envelopes retrieved from Cosmos magazine ... Election of finest barmen and barmaids ... Fluids are flowing ... Jockeying for possies on club's holy of holies
Procrustes • Friday, November 11, 2011 Politicians severed from highest judicial selections in UK ... Reinvention of the ultimate court ... Elaborate titles preserved ... Barwick would approve (but for other reasons) ... Procrustes on the case
Judicial selection, Supreme Court UK Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Australian Law Reform Commission, in tight budget squeeze, has to stump-up for two lots of office rent ... Why is this necessary? ... Gummow has a hissy-fit as he refuses to finish his question to Doc. Bell in ASIC v Hellicar appeal
Goings On ... • Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Conferenceville ... Secret police meddle in Dubai lawyers' corroboree ... IBA bends the knee to feudal despot ... Federal magistrate declares he'll stay in the trenches despite scary letter from Commonwealth about pensions litigation
Chapter 111, Federal Magistrates, IBA Judges • Monday, November 7, 2011 Judges with personality ... On with the motley ... Alice in Wonderland, Spike Milligan, The Goons, Lord Atkin - all channelled in judicial attempts to break free ... Getting to the crux of the matter, even though it might take forever ... Judges' Associate Ginger Snatch reports from ringside
Harrison DCJ, Judge Sam Kent, Justice Blow Polly Peck • Tuesday, November 1, 2011 While merging the family law work of the federal courts edges ahead, the new Australian Military Court is missing in action ... The generals don't want federal madges dealing with their brave lads ... Defence Minister Stephen Smith still in cogitation mode ... Polly Peck reports
Federal courts Barry Lane • Monday, October 31, 2011 Where's the moral case for tax havens? ... Big Pharma and News Corp are among the major beneficiaries of tax havens ... US encourages repatriation of profits with the incentive of a 5.25 percent tax rate ... Will Rupert join Buffett's bandwagon and pay more tax? ... Barry Lane investigates
Around The Firms • Friday, October 28, 2011 Affidavit material in Styles v Clayton Utz ... Backward and forwards on cross-vesting and claims for privilege ... Probably only suitable for devotees of this litigation
Bridgette Styles, Clayton Utz Leverhulme • Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Lawyers and food ... SRA moves from a "rules-based" to an "outcomes" approach ... Leverhulme left Australia 18 years ago ... He made a brief sentimental return to these shores and wondered what happened to the old Oz
Procrustes • Tuesday, October 25, 2011 This country used to have leaders ... Now it's got cyphers, driven by the distortions from focus groups and pollsters ... That's why our handling of asylum seekers had been such a disgrace ... Procrustes climbs onto his high horse, which is tethered conveniently nearby
Asylum seekers, Boat people Polly Peck • Monday, October 24, 2011 Advice from OIL sets off fiery questions from oily senator about the Malaysian Solution ... Meeting a dead-bat at the estimates committee ... What's happened to the federal courts Bill? ... Meanwhile, there's a quiet review into integrating the "backend" of federal courts and tribunals ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra
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