Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >>
Polly gets a cracker ... The Parrot falls from his bully pulpit … Performances … The end of the Wharf Revue … Bruce McClintock on stage at The Onion Club … Freaks on the loose in Washington ... Read on ...
Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >>
London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >>
Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ...
A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ...
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Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife.
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about.
Comment - Untamed opinions.
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics.
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on.
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar.
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout.
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs.
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions.
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher.
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions.
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Junior Junior • Wednesday, December 21, 2011 It's a horrible time of the year for Junior Junior ... Stuck in chambers with lonely, dysfunctional workaholics ... Time to read The Daily Telegraph and despair ... Community standards replaced by princelings
Juries, Justice Peter McClellan Artemus Jones • Monday, December 19, 2011 Defamatorium ... Gacic v Fairfax ... Restaurant review ... Right to comment depends on getting the facts right ... Too much Coco, not enough Roco ... Despite the NSW Court of Appeal's finding, Artemus Jones thinks restaurant reviewing is safe, provided all the other ingredients are well served
Junior Junior • Thursday, December 8, 2011 Our reader learns how to deal with real people ... Humanity waits at the door of the duty barrister ... It's a shock ... Nut cases and whingers abound ... Junior Junior is skaken
Duty barrister Junior Junior • Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Junior Junior in court to catch Mr Mortified putting his foot in it during sentencing submissions ... Cringe ... When will men learn? ... Nothing should be assumed
Barristers, Sentencing submissions Peach Melba • Friday, November 18, 2011 Industrial scene in Melbourne turns ugly ... Hospital bosses' plan to intimidate nurses during strike ... Vic Police achieve productivity gains by dispensing with the need to swear affidavits ... Fat Tony changes his plea ... Wallopers fail to break-up chicken factory picket line ... Peach Melba reporting
Industrial action, Swearing affidavits Junior Junior • Friday, November 11, 2011 Bar readers don't have any reading ... Promising careers blighted by large numbers of settlements or adjournments ... No real work, just fiddling on Facebook ... Junior Junior reports on tardiness by Leatherface
Adjournments, Bar readers' course, Settlements Junior Junior • Monday, October 24, 2011 Junior Junior's first days at the bar ... She smartly identified three types of barrister ... Does the bar attract weirdos or does the bar make them weird? ... The baby barrister blog
Peach Melba • Wednesday, August 10, 2011 As soon as premier Baillieu said Vic's Charter of Rights could stay, the leaks began as to how costly it is ... Government seeks votes with law 'n' order agenda ... Some lessons are never learned ... C7 judgment gave an interesting insight into the commercial and legal morality at News Ltd ... Move along, nothing has changed ... Peach Melba's blog
Theodora • Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Lawyers are returning to bite the Murdochs on their posteriors ... James Murdoch's pants are on fire ... Commons committee wants an explanation (a better one this time) ... Lawyers are off the leash
Theodora • Friday, July 22, 2011 Gillard government declares it's time to sink the slipper into the reptiles of the media ... Thank you Rupert ... Theodora opines
Dorothy Says ... • Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Is the partner running the performance reviews actually a suboptimal performer himself? ... It looks like it ... A world in which 40 percent is the new 50 percent ... Meeting adjourned after bad debt allegation ... Dorothy blogs
Performance review Dorothy Says ... • Monday, July 4, 2011 Dorothy turns sneaky theft of her file into a clever advantage ... So clever, in fact, that it comes back to bite her ... Law firm strategies for manipulating partners and clients ... Client Seagull Syndrome
Theodora • Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Update ... Judging by the deep pool of informal gripes and grumbles about Jennifer Betts, parliament may have been too forgiving ... Brian Maloney pleads for his job ... Theorora sifts through bits of Local Court rubble
Peach Melba • Thursday, May 26, 2011 Rapke wrap-up ... Will Silbert get a Santa suit? ... Murdoch hacks battering down Simon Overland's door ... (Talk about the breaking squad) ... Lawyers at unhappily fused DLA Piper told to hike their charge out rates ... Peach Melba channels Leo Tolstoy
DLA Piper, Frank Vincent, Jeremy Rapke, Simon Overland Dorothy Says ... • Friday, May 13, 2011 Ivan knows how to get rid of people from the firm when revenues are sliding ... Performance manage the victims to the point of performance dismissal ... Care is needed ... Revenge of the sackee ... Dorothy's blog