Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >>
An Australian Abroad ... An essay with pictures … Egypt and the Grand Museum … No end to the antiquities … Down the Nile on a dahabiya … Tombs and temples … Paris and industrial-scale tourism … The Yarts & Kulture ... Read on >>
Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >>
Tasmanis's Lieutenant Guv (and CJ) Christopher Shenanigans is unlikely to decide the consitiutional impass ... The current guv'nor, former Circuit Court judge and family lawyer Barbara Baker returns to Guv House next week ... Labor hates the Greens and is unlikely to form a coalition government ... Another election looks likely as the numbers for both sides are brittle and unreliable ... However, Baker can ask the Labor leader to test his numbers.
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Zeilgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more >>
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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
Federal courts, Malaysian Solution Bar Talk • Thursday, October 20, 2011 Rumblings in Phillip Street ... Silk refusenicks run for council elections ... More detailed information to be supplied to failed applicants for silk ... Process could drag on into next month ... "Vote for change"
Bar council elections, Silk selection