Chop, dice, mince

Courtney Docket    Friday, June 5, 2026

Judicial guru overturned on income tax ruling … Commissioner triumphs before the Full Feds …Are payments of $33 million taxable income or a loving family gift? … Spare change from offshore business … Courtney Docket on the case

 

Postcard from Canada

Foreign Correspondence    Wednesday, April 23, 2025

News from the 51st State … Conservatives on law ‘n’ blitz … Separation of powers … Hot issues for the election … The “notwithstanding clause” … Court dumps Musk and his X … Anti-Trump fever sweeps the nation … From Maple Bloom

 

A judge created fantasy

PROCRUSTES    Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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The Crown and its immunity … Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime … Legislation ignored … Class action underway … The wavering fronds of the presumption … Clinging to the Jacobeans … Sanctity of the monarch … Procrustes inveighs

 

ICC defence lawyers revolt

Uncategorized    Thursday, December 29, 2022

Defence counsel’s shabby pay and conditions at the International Criminal Court … Legal aid negotiations dragging on indefinitely … Pay stuck at 2013 level … An unbalanced system … The bench decidedly frosty … Silence in the court … Max Shanahan reports 

 

End of the road

Uncategorized    Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Slide into financial ruin … Prison … Tickling the trust account to stay afloat … Multiple instances of trust irregularities … Poker machines of no assistance … Ill-health … Doom … Max Shanahan reports 

 

Another Jarndyce

Uncategorized    Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years … Delays and apprehended bias … Distain and disregard … Going nowhere after eight years … Retrial ordered … Start again … Artemus Jones reports  COMMENT: *disdain

 

WA Madge says, ‘don’t mess with me’

Uncategorized    Friday, December 16, 2022

Contentious magistrate shifted from WA Children’s Court … Constitutional imperilment … Independence of judicial officers … Argy-bargy with head of jurisdiction … Government meddling … Big drama, according to Groper 

 

Coco Pops

Uncategorized    Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Over-wrought prison sentence for climate protestor … United Nations dismayed … Premier reading from a law n’ order script … “Way of life” under assault … City street closed for a state government hoedown … Protests should be “convenient” … Max Shanahan reports