Silken tax debt at Qld Bar n Grill … Different barristers, different responses from bar management … Water Softener in the wings … Lloyd Babb gets “action plan” job with Tasmanian courts … Terence O’Rort in Brisbane and Trevor Quoll in Hobart report
Unfortunate mishaps
Bar Talk Thursday, October 30, 2025Guy Reynolds rushed to hospital … High Court appeal left in the hands of his junior … Emergency situation … What to do … Plus: Barrister derailed from appearing in an appeal after being counsel and a witness at the trial … Phillip Street reports
Notes from the Bar ‘n’ Grill
Bar Talk Friday, September 26, 2025Expanded real estate for bar bureaucrats in Sydney and Brisvegas … Fewer convivial services … Collegiality evaporates … Looming AGM – resolutions banned … Banana Benders Bar … Flu shot insights from the Needle Room … Tattered links with Counsels Chambers Ltd … Elizabeth Street reports
Silken aspiration
Bar Talk Thursday, September 18, 2025It’s silk season … Jockeys on parade … The complete 2025 take-home list of NSW Bar applicants for silk … Someone you may know … Statistics and comparisons … Hopes and despair … Never say die
Bar baa
Bar Talk Tuesday, June 24, 2025WA barristers in certificate renewal snarl … Website hacked … Law Society and Legal Practice Board in standoff … Threat of personal details emerging … More lebensraum for bar management in Sydney and Brisbane … Waspish correspondence … Indemnity insurance premiums blow out
Zeitgeist litigation
Bar Talk Thursday, April 24, 2025Matt 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
Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart’s Bleak House
Bar Talk Tuesday, April 22, 2025Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs … Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation … Allegations of fraud against the family trust …Manoeuvring … Tax “advice” … Shifting vesting date … Money, the root of unhappiness … Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Roll call for silk
Bar Talk Wednesday, August 28, 2024109 NSW barristers have their hands up for silken acknowledgement … Bar’s secret list for 2024 unmasked … Stampede to exit the junior bar … Finery … Embroidery … The annual Silk Bazaar … Scoop