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
Leverhulme • Friday, February 22, 2013 Overly aggressive cross-examination in sex case causes outcry ... Questions without solid foundation ... Northern Ireland chief prosecutor gets his solicitor advocates to tog-up ... Bar outraged ... Leverhulme reports from the Old Dart
Procrustes • Monday, February 18, 2013 Nauru, where "undesirable" people are concentrated without trial, indefinitely ... VCAT rules on the fleeting nature of a kiss ... Police cover-up identity of person receiving $250,000 witness payment for the shaky Phuong Ngo conviction ... Procrustes at large
Court in the Act • Friday, February 15, 2013 Judge hurls abuse at accused in sentencing proceedings ... The Far North Queensland sentencing model
Far North Queensland, Judge Harrison, Sentencing Court in the Act • Friday, February 15, 2013 Full court of the Tas Supremes lays into Duncan Kerr ... Where was the case law? ... Unmeritorious applications ... Needless grounds of appeal ... Time wasting ... Costs punishment ... Map of Tasmania
AAT, Duncan Kerr, Map of Tasmania City Desk • Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Latest thrills and spills around the Defamation Court ... Reputations under fire ... Tony Renshaw v Lawyers Weekly ... Chief Madge v Daily Tele ... Ashurst Partner v Fairfax ... Littlemore, gentle but firm ... Defamatorium
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, February 11, 2013 The United States doesn't require a war for there to be "war crimes ... Stopping the "water cure" from flowing into the trial process ... European Court of Human Rights upsets the CIA's apple cart ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Guantanamo, Law of war, Military Commissions, Torture Tulkinghorn • Friday, February 8, 2013 Trial process trumps the search for truth ... Jurors promise to give a true verdict ... Lawyers and judges don't have to make promises about the "truth" ... The Theodora Dallas case and online research by jurors ... The confines of the adversarial criminal justice system ... Tulkinghorn opines
Adversarial system, Contempt, Juries, Jury research Judges • Friday, February 1, 2013 Trust me ... Letter to the CJ ... According to Ian Spry QC, Chief Justice French got it wrong in the long-running stoush with the former Mrs Spry over distribution of family trust assets ... Latest in a series of letters contesting the correctness of the majority findings in Kennon v Spry
High Court, ICF Spry, Kennon v Spry Goings On ... • Friday, February 1, 2013 New-Old life for Dyse ... Allens' former senior partner's breast-taking moment ... The ineffectiveness of suppression orders in the internet age ... Private equity fund gobbles Lawyers Fortnightly ... Torturous 14 year grind by the SA Bureau de Spank
Procrustes • Thursday, January 24, 2013 A post-Dysian world ... Justice Peter Young shows the way ... Veil piercing ... The slipperiness of legislative intention ... "Purpose" is the empty vessel into which judges can pour their own meaning ... Procrustes takes his pills
City Desk • Thursday, January 24, 2013 NSW's "evidence of silence" legislation and adverse inferences ... Attorney General clings to telephone advice as a safeguard ... The hotline model out of favour in Law & Justice Foundation findings ... The fundamentalism of pillars
Right to silence City Desk • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Ethics committee purged by incoming Law Soc prez ... New guidelines on cloud computing and outsourcing not adopted ... Distressed email
Cloud computing, Ethics, Law Society NSW, Outsourcing City Desk • Friday, January 18, 2013 Big $100 million Royal Commission chooses the Intercontinental Hotel for its first public outing ... Six commissioners lined-up for inspection by the media ... Only one talked ... Bureaucrats hover ... The mystery of "F"
Tulkinghorn • Monday, January 14, 2013 Pre-trial preventive detention? ... Let's call it "refusal of bail" ... How can someone commit "further offences" when none have been proved to start with? ... Tulkinghorn examines NSW's proposed new Bail Act ... Conflict of values
Bail, Preventative detention Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, January 9, 2013 The manufacture and sale of the Second Amendment ... Armed vigilantism insulated from the law ... Litigation damages toll mounts for CIA's illegal programs ... The undisciplined Alfreda Frances Bikowsky out from the shadows ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington
Gun control, Second Amendment, War on terror Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Sir Terence O'Rort dismayed by the new, modern law courts in Brisbane ... Too way out for people of traditional values ... Puzzling artworks ... Punters and practitioners bewildered ... Massive judicial over-statement
Supreme Court of Queensland Goings On ... • Friday, December 21, 2012 New entrant in barristerial portrait genre ... Swindells, the accountant ... Poole-Jones ICAC phone intercepts ... North Shore purse raid ... Dizzo judges want pay finding overturned ... Queensland's new QCs ... The High Court invents the wheel
Judges • Tuesday, December 18, 2012 ACT barristers complains about Justice Refshauge ... Reserved judgments piling-up ... Canberra practitioners livid at the delays ... Replacement CJ in contention ... Massive amount of weekend typing and RSI?
Judges • Sunday, December 16, 2012 The NSW Cabinet meets on Monday (Dec. 17) and is likely to approve Margaret Beazley's appointment as President of the Court of Appeal ... It's understood that Tom Bathurst had also been toying with other names
Margaret Beazley, Tom Bathurst Judges • Saturday, December 15, 2012 Former Supremo Anthony Whealy had lunch with The Sydney Morning Herald and on the record said he has doubts about Keli Lane's murder conviction … Appeal pending … One rule for Margaret Cunneen … Another for a retired judge
Anthony Whealy, Keli Lane, Margaret Cunneen