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 >>
Direct speech takes on a life of it's own ... Panel discussion ... How (Not) To Litigate ... Does using "direct speech" in evidence offend Sensibilities? Does Pride in one's work mean that the Court wants to read all one's letters? Is their tone Prejudicial? Does your technical evidence make Sense to the judge? ... Details >>
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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Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, November 21, 2011 Former general counsel of the CIA under investigation over drone attack "murder" remark ... War crimes don't need a war (apparently) ... Novel offences likely to remain on the books ... Ideological Republican circuit judges flout the Supreme Court ... Our Man in Washington reports
Procrustes • Friday, November 18, 2011 High Court judges love the adornment of historical learning ... Dyse leads the way ... History-laden scornful asides ... Even an assault on the Vic AG for daring to introduce his human rights legislation ... Procrustes delves into the separation of criticisms
Dyson Heydon, High Court Hellfire Club • Friday, November 18, 2011 Overcharging - how gross ... Keddie hearing next April ... Judge Jim Curtis carefully exposes overbilling regime at Keddies ... The leveraging of time and money
Keddies, Russell Keddie, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Bar Talk • Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Envelopes retrieved from Cosmos magazine ... Election of finest barmen and barmaids ... Fluids are flowing ... Jockeying for possies on club's holy of holies
Procrustes • Friday, November 11, 2011 Politicians severed from highest judicial selections in UK ... Reinvention of the ultimate court ... Elaborate titles preserved ... Barwick would approve (but for other reasons) ... Procrustes on the case
Judicial selection, Supreme Court UK Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Australian Law Reform Commission, in tight budget squeeze, has to stump-up for two lots of office rent ... Why is this necessary? ... Gummow has a hissy-fit as he refuses to finish his question to Doc. Bell in ASIC v Hellicar appeal
Goings On ... • Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Conferenceville ... Secret police meddle in Dubai lawyers' corroboree ... IBA bends the knee to feudal despot ... Federal magistrate declares he'll stay in the trenches despite scary letter from Commonwealth about pensions litigation
Chapter 111, Federal Magistrates, IBA Judges • Monday, November 7, 2011 Judges with personality ... On with the motley ... Alice in Wonderland, Spike Milligan, The Goons, Lord Atkin - all channelled in judicial attempts to break free ... Getting to the crux of the matter, even though it might take forever ... Judges' Associate Ginger Snatch reports from ringside
Harrison DCJ, Judge Sam Kent, Justice Blow Polly Peck • Tuesday, November 1, 2011 While merging the family law work of the federal courts edges ahead, the new Australian Military Court is missing in action ... The generals don't want federal madges dealing with their brave lads ... Defence Minister Stephen Smith still in cogitation mode ... Polly Peck reports
Federal courts Barry Lane • Monday, October 31, 2011 Where's the moral case for tax havens? ... Big Pharma and News Corp are among the major beneficiaries of tax havens ... US encourages repatriation of profits with the incentive of a 5.25 percent tax rate ... Will Rupert join Buffett's bandwagon and pay more tax? ... Barry Lane investigates
Around The Firms • Friday, October 28, 2011 Affidavit material in Styles v Clayton Utz ... Backward and forwards on cross-vesting and claims for privilege ... Probably only suitable for devotees of this litigation
Bridgette Styles, Clayton Utz Leverhulme • Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Lawyers and food ... SRA moves from a "rules-based" to an "outcomes" approach ... Leverhulme left Australia 18 years ago ... He made a brief sentimental return to these shores and wondered what happened to the old Oz
Procrustes • Tuesday, October 25, 2011 This country used to have leaders ... Now it's got cyphers, driven by the distortions from focus groups and pollsters ... That's why our handling of asylum seekers had been such a disgrace ... Procrustes climbs onto his high horse, which is tethered conveniently nearby
Asylum seekers, Boat people Polly Peck • Monday, October 24, 2011 Advice from OIL sets off fiery questions from oily senator about the Malaysian Solution ... Meeting a dead-bat at the estimates committee ... What's happened to the federal courts Bill? ... Meanwhile, there's a quiet review into integrating the "backend" of federal courts and tribunals ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra
Federal courts, Malaysian Solution Bar Talk • Thursday, October 20, 2011 Rumblings in Phillip Street ... Silk refusenicks run for council elections ... More detailed information to be supplied to failed applicants for silk ... Process could drag on into next month ... "Vote for change"
Bar council elections, Silk selection Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Analysing the US Supremes most recent term - plenty of goodies for big business, nothing for plaintiff lawyers ... Alien Tort Statute up for a workout ... Torture cases batted around the circuit courts ... Rendition victims lose final appeal ... Our Man in Washington reports
Court in the Act • Tuesday, October 18, 2011 No public interest in what's interesting to the public ... Open justice takes a backseat as prevention of embarrassment trumps competing interests ... Rinehart ruling keeps family row under wraps for now ... Publication of slabs of interlocutory judgment in Styles v Clayton Utz off limits ... Clutz applied for a super-injunction to keep names under wraps
Around The Firms • Sunday, October 16, 2011 Styles v Clayton Utz ... Two judgments dealing with pleadings in the sex discrimination case against the large law shop ... Taunting photos ... Unfunny parodies ... Sexual tension ... Metro manwhoreishness
Bridgette Styles, Clayton Utz, Luis Izzo Barry Lane • Tuesday, October 11, 2011 We have to thank parliament for the rich opportunities to litigate and appeal ... The fostering of disputation is a political mission ... The fertile pastures of taxation, sentencing and injury compo ... GST issues surrounding an Italian mini ciabatta ... Digressions from Barry Lane
Bar Talk • Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Updated on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by
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The selection of silk in NSW is stymied ... David Smallbone makes progress ... Trying to get to grips with the accuracy and fairness of a secretive process ... Arab Spring comes to Phillip Street
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