SEARCH
Justinian News

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 >>

Politics Media Law Society

Perils of the Defamatorium ... Lovely Linda Reynolds’ “victory” leaves her underwater … Politics, sex, law, and money … Injuries galore … The art of Tottling … Where’s the serious harm? … Trust me … Jurisdictional backwater ... Read more >> 

Free Newsletter
Justinian Columnists

Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >> 

Blow the whistle

 

News snips ...


This area does not yet contain any content.
Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects ... Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find, I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now."

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell interviewed by Trump's former lawyer Todd Blanche, now Deputy Attorney General ... July 25, 2025. Interviews released by DOJ, August 22, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 

 

 

Justinian's archive

The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >> 


 

 

« Finkelstein or Frankenstein Report? | Main | Pass the source to Helen Liu »
Tuesday
Feb282012

One of the boys

Junior Junior sticks it to an older male barrister ... Ogling attractive women in the lift ... How a fledgling female barrister should respond to male barrister's swooning remarks directed at another women ... Etiquette 

My chambers is blessed with a couple of token women but, to be honest, they are the least friendly of my colleagues. 

Socially I sit somewhere between the secretaries and the barristers, yet not quite belonging fully to either camp. 

I go out for lunch with the secretaries and their gossip is always prefaced with, "Now you won't tell my boss, will you?"

I am fortunate to be privy to the tittle-tattle of both the secretaries and the barristers. You never know when some good information will come in handy.

While I love hanging out with the ladies and sharing food and beauty secrets, a big part of me yearns to be one of the boys.

Today, I realised my male colleagues do regard me as one of them ... and I blew it.

I'm at the Supreme Court and heading down in the lift to the foyer after an appearance.

A colleague, who curiously reminds me a lot of my father, is with me and we are chatting. In steps a very attractive woman (or so I was told).

The conversation pauses until we arrive at the foyer and de-lift.

On walking out, he said to me: "Did you see her? What an amazing piece of woman! She is strikingly beautiful." 

I reply that I hadn't actually noticed. 

There is an awkward moment.

I extended the awkwardness.

"Such a shame there aren't more good looking men in the Supremo."

Now he looks hurt.

"I like to think I'm looking pretty good," he sniffs.

"Sorry ... I didn't mean you. I meant men my age.  The ones I would be looking at."

Ouch again! 

He was irked. 

"There are many older men that still have it, I'll have you know."

There was definitely tension. In my view he'd been insensitive in his ogling of the other women. Now it seemed he was offended I hadn't been ogling him. Maybe he thought  I was offended that he hadn't ogled me. 

I had to fill the void:

"I just tend towards men my own age. I certainly didn't mean to imply you were not an attractive man."

It is unsalvageable.

Silence was clearly the better option. 

Next time I'll respond with, "Yeah, did you see those pins!"

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.
Member Account Required
You must have a member account on this website in order to post comments. Log in to your account to enable posting.