The law and its miracles ... Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld ... Justice Jenni Hill's brother ... More entries for the Golden Tortoise award ... Federal Court muddles the maths, again ... Theodora reports ... Read more >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Being a lawyer can be sheer misery ... Psychological distress ... Workplace incivility ... Lack of support ... Rotten culture ... Report on wellbeing ... More >>
Governance turmoil at Tiny Town Law Society ... Night of the long knives ... Lakeside in Canberra ... ACT Law Society upheaval over governance changes ... Bodies carted out of the council room ... Blood on the carpet ... Fraught litigation another distraction ... From Gang Gang ... Read more >>
Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Tulkinghorn • Monday, May 20, 2013 The personal injury racket ... The no win, no fee racket ... The after-the-event insurance racket ... The unauthorised practice of law racket ... Tulkinghorn examines the meaty bone and its associated lawyer rackets
Court in the Act • Saturday, May 18, 2013 Barrister and solicitor were parties to secret recording of mobile phone conversation while a trial was in progress ... Impropriety ... Application to tender recording rejected ... Breach of Surveillance Devices Act and Evidence Act ... Alix Piatek reports
Bar Talk • Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Qld gazettes arrangements for converting from senior counsel to queens' counsel ... Marketing ploy in a desperately needy climate ... Melbourne SC still pressing for the queens' counsel option while fighting off attacks on the "imponderables" of selection ... Warning: original notion of the QC had little to do with higher fees
City Desk • Friday, May 10, 2013 Boning knife taken to NSW Legal Aid ... No money for defended Local Court trials, unless defendants face the "real possibility" of a gaol sentence ... Letter from director of the criminal law division ... Challenges in "managing the reaction from the bench" ... Massive resources for the coppers produces squeeze further down the food chain
Legal aid, NSW Local Court, Public purpose fund Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 8, 2013 US government has its very own radical Islam website ... Judge overrules some of the FBI's denial of rights to Boston bombing suspect ... Canadian to appeal Guantánamo conviction ... Guilty plea to invalid charges ... Pentagon citing Civil War precedents in Bradley Manning stitch-up ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington
Goings On ... • Friday, May 3, 2013 Qld AG insists there's no rape of teenagers in Pineapple Land jails ... Silk's daily rate for the crown ... Canberra firm fails in early round to squelch picketing client's Mum ... Justice Bromberg's vital statistics
Goings On ... • Thursday, May 2, 2013 The moving and shaking of a Law Society high-flyer … The Armidale connection … The University of New England and living in the shadow of Dickie Torbay
Around The Firms • Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Big law shop drops its insistence on having Allan Myers for the Chris Dale case ... Appeal ditched ... No more mucking around
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Judges • Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Touchy war of words between the upper and lower stratas of the federal judiciary ... Raphael v Perram; Perram v Raphael ... It’s a matter of tone ... Alix Piatek reports
Court in the Act • Monday, April 29, 2013 Compo lawyers will be painting the town red ... NSW Court of Appeal wipes out 25 percent of the government's proposed savings from the 2012 workers comp reforms ... Lump sums are back - at the old rate
Workers Compensation Leverhulme • Tuesday, April 23, 2013 The nation turns against a sponger who'd milked the system ... Leverhulme farewells Thatcher, a revolutionary, not a Tory ... Brought down by a "howling intellectual error" ... London Calling
Margaret Thatcher Bar Talk • Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Crown keeping a tight rein on barrister expenses in NSW ... Funding for the bar virtually unchanged for two-and-a-half years ... Top fee last year for Crown Solicitor's civil work was $1,054,501.25 ... Full list of fees paid ... Another scoop from Justinian
Barristers' fees, NSW Crown Solicitor Hellfire Club • Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Fallout from the Melbourne-Voyager collision ... Solicitor for victims loses his ticket ... Bad behaviour and lack of candour ... Drawn out case, as elderly clients suffer ... Alix Piatek reports
Judges • Saturday, April 20, 2013 Bench and bar combine to squelch Jackson civil litigation cost reforms ... Latest scheme of improvement to costly litigation quietly throttled … Dame Elizabeth Gloster says judges should not be mean about barristers' fees … Alix Piatek reports
Goings On ... • Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Appeal judge airs his knowledge of gay beats ... A family of "Best Lawyers" ... Drink-drive judge mentoring other judges ... New book takes us behind the scenes at the Judicial Commission ... Truly breathtaking arrogance
Hellfire Club • Monday, April 15, 2013 Rolled-up bundle of complaints against solicitor from the NSW northern rivers ... Harassment of former female client with 30 plus phone calls and text messages ... Forging JP's signature ... Breaching the sanctity of the solicitor-client relationship ... Other sins
Court in the Act • Monday, April 15, 2013 Costs of costs dispute ... Firths fights bitter battle against former client ... Court finds that law shop's offers to settle were not genuine compromises ... Client's extravagant claims ... Each side sent home without a costs order
Roger Fitch Esq • Sunday, April 14, 2013 Old guard rallies to the cause of female CIA agent glorified fictionally in Zero Dark 30 ... Latest from US Supremes, including forthcoming important gene patent case ... Secret no-fly lists tested in court ... DoJ's sweetheart deals with badly behaved banks and bankers ... George W. Bush's Liberty and Freedom Institute opens for business ... Our Man in Washington
Around The Firms • Saturday, April 13, 2013 Is Allan Myers the only silk in Melbourne? ... Clayton Utz insists on having this singular barrister to fend off claims by former partner Chris Dale ... Spectre of Rolah McCabe and document destruction ... Appeal against orders that Myers should not appear for the firm ... On and on it goes
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Judges • Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Ithaca on the horizon ... Pineapple Mafia sharpening its implements ... Tutt-Tutt ... Wall-banging on the Gold Coast ... A Clare view of the law ... Murph surfs to a victory over the Legal Services Commissioner