Sofronoff stripped bare ... Deceit ... Betrayal ... Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information "tryst" ... Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann ... Derangement syndrome ... Sofronoff's "serious corruption" ... Devastation among devoted Banana Benders ... Read more >>
Bag lady ... Don't call the results until the fat lady sings … Senator's criminal record hidden from view … Inspiration from our B-grade business leaders … Forget the sexual harassment, Dicey Heydon is coming out of the deep freeze ... Read on >>
Capital crimes ... Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon ... Musk and his techie vandals ... The shredder going full blast at the FBI ... Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago ... Cabinet clown show ... White supremacy unleashed ... Consumer protection prosecutions dropped ... Lawyers and law firms threatened ... Roger Fitch from Washington ... Read more >>
Letter from London ... Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >>
Defamation and other misadventures ... So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Uproar in Martin Place as a third of 15 Wardell peels off ... ACCC wants to know more about clerks for Vic barristers ... French CJ, the lady in green and Grecian 2000 on display at the Art Gallery of NSW ... Theodora reports
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Sunday, October 31, 2010 Percy is waiting to try a dish of ostrich ... Sir Anthony Mason is the bright star of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ... The most prolific of the non-permanent judges
Stephen Keim • Sunday, October 31, 2010 Boy soldier Omar Khadr pleads guilty before Guantanamo Military Commission ... Plea deal saves the US the embarrassment of conducting the "trial" of a boy soldier ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree report
Law of war Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, October 27, 2010 New Supreme Court term … Political gold rush flows from Citizens United … Tea Party nutters … Government plan to assassinate US citizen goes to court … Torture case against Boeing subsidiary overturned ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Law of war, Political funding, State secrets Barry Lane • Monday, October 25, 2010 Vic Parliament rides to the rescue to save the VWA's bacon ... No more issue estoppels for you ... Juries to be mushroomed ... Barry Lane reports on the latest from accident compo world
Accident Compensation Evan Whitton • Friday, October 22, 2010 Evan Whitton advises on how to run a commission of inquiry ... Special prosecutor absolutely essential ... Voices from the past - Mike Ahern and Doug Drummond ... Lord Widgery's cover-up ... Saville The Stonecutter
Commissions of inquiry Pillsbury Flom • Friday, October 22, 2010 The Pledge ... Blogging judges ... Three strikes ... And other lunacies of the US justice system ... Pillsbury Flom reports
Judges, Judicial system Judges • Thursday, October 21, 2010 Much ado stirred by Sydney Morning Herald's series on judges at work and play ... On the record and unexpurgated ... How will we ever shut them up now?
Bar Talk • Tuesday, October 19, 2010 NSW silk selection reforms have not gone far enough, says Alexander Street SC ... The process still needs fundamental reform ... Just when the bar council was patting itself on the back for a job well done, along comes a fresh broadside from an insider
Senior Counsel selection Goings On ... • Tuesday, September 28, 2010 New-old stuff from Spiggsy Spigelman CJ ... The four categories of judicial personalities ... Introducing the Vincent Index ... Soapy Brandis conjures some constitutional thoughts
Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 24, 2010 There is more litigant satisfaction in Baden-Württemberg than in New South Wales ... Cases are conducted more quickly and at less cost ... The Marfording report on civil litigation picks-up where the ALRC failed to take off ... Tulkinghorn reports
Goings On ... • Monday, September 20, 2010 Map of Tasmania ... Huge damages threatened against police for refusal to allow famous Tasmanian barrister to shoot animals from his Porsche ... Excrement on golf course fairways ... Native hens don't scare easily - they will need to be shot
Barristers, Map of Tasmania, Wildlife Goings On ... • Thursday, September 16, 2010 The Ron Cahill affair had Canberra spellbound ... Chief Magistrate in strife over suggestions he meddled in a case involving a friend ... DPP drops the investigation ... Relief that Rapid Ron is in the clear and that he's off the bench
Chief Magistrate Ron Cahill Leverhulme • Monday, September 13, 2010 Being tortured by your students - the trials of trial advocacy instructors ... Lessons of Sir Patrick Hastings - counsel should rely on memory not notes ... Better to observe the witnesses ... "Chris," she cried with her last breath ... London Calling with Leverhulme
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, September 13, 2010 State Department reports to UN on human rights in the USA ... Surprisingly few US civilians killed overseas by terrorists last year ... Of all the defendants before Military Commissions, only one has been charged with an actual war crime
Law of war Goings On ... • Thursday, September 9, 2010 A defamation action by three former employees of Keddies against the law firm has hit a snag ... McClintock withdraws after Keddies' partners object ... Trial delayed ... No senior barristers available ... Law firm overcharging to be probed in libel trial
Defamation, professional conduct Judges • Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Don't mess with the judge's bags ... PNG airport search goes wrong ... Restraining order on airport security man who wanted to check senior judge's "cargo" ... Rule of law in action
Stephen Keim • Monday, September 6, 2010 Psychological fallout from US supermax detention comes under gaze of the ECHR ... Long arm of the European Convention stretches to the isolation ward of US justice ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree review the Babar Ahmad case
Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 3, 2010 Michael Kirby swaps horses on our justice system ... When it operates, it operates very well ... How often might that be? ... Former High Court judge says there are not enough lawyers in politics ... Tulkinghorn thinks Kirby might have lost it
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, September 1, 2010 The lies of war ... Andrew Wilkie and Afghanistan ... Dickie Pratt and the great box cartel heist ... Hiding evidence from everybody ... Michael Wilding gives dud journalism a whack ... Alf Parsons, diplomat, passes ... Evan Whitton observes