Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >>
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Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife.
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about.
Comment - Untamed opinions.
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics.
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on.
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar.
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout.
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs.
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions.
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher.
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions.
We'd happily induct you into the blawging hall of fame if you wanted to unpack a few burning issues. Contact the Ed. for further and better particulars.
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Barely Legal • Tuesday, February 8, 2022 A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart
Barely Legal • Monday, November 29, 2021 Letter from the Dreaming Spires ... High Commissioner to the UK speaks at the Union ... A sprinkling of rapt Young Tories ... Car alarm competing for attention ... Jolly John Kerr told him Betty Windsor was in the clear ... Later rooftop revelries ... Barely Legal reports
George Brandis, Oxbridge Barely Legal • Tuesday, November 9, 2021 Fresh letter from the Spires ... Cacophony of coughing at students' matriculation ceremony ... Viral spray covers everything in Covid ravaged landscape ... Shift work for the vice-chancellor ... Barely Legal reports
Barely Legal • Saturday, October 30, 2021 Barely Legal has moved to one of the great colleges in the green and pleasant land ... His first encounter with the college toffs ... Important to get the language right
Barely Legal • Saturday, July 31, 2021 Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line
Clerkships Court in the Act • Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Company logo despoiled by climateers ... Upheld in the name of satire ... Clive Palmer didn't help ... Phil Ruddock's shield of satire saved the greenies ... Anna Kretowicz looks at how the Federal Court came to grips with parody
Barely Legal • Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Freshly minted from university ... Associateship beckons ... Interim job bailing water out of the leaky parole boat ... Delays and judicial reviews ... Barely Legal finds out about stuff never taught at university
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 The Peter Ridd case hits the High Court ... James Cook University's termination of an academic's employment ... The freedom to say whatever you like ... Free speech and all that ... Being beastly about other academics ... Promoting views contrary to mainstream science ... Hero of the climate deniers ... Untangling the Code of Conduct and the Enterprise Agreement ... Anna Kretowicz reports
Thursday, April 8, 2021 Robe row ... Election barrister endorses spray tan mousse ... It's April 1 at the WA bar ... Federal Court's Yarraside women's problem ... Rule of Law cult overturns Kunc opinion ... From Theodora
Barely Legal • Monday, March 22, 2021 A transformation is underway - even if Scott Morrison and his government cannot see it ... Woman seeking a change in the justice "culture" ... Rule of law myths for the protection of AG Porter ... Barely Legal is happy to be on the cusp of the revolution
Politics, Sexual abuse Barely Legal • Thursday, February 18, 2021 Enduring a miserable scholarship ceremony ... How the victim of a Westpac bank robbery restored Barely Legal's faith in the pinstripe prison ... The informative Uber driver ... Two canapés too many
Law students, Legal profession Barely Legal • Thursday, January 28, 2021 Quite possibly, the disagreement about the appropriateness of January 26 will never be resolved ... The date is unlikely to change ... Instead, we should get on with having a national day of contention, rather than the pretence of unity ... Anna Kretowicz blogs
Invasion Day Thursday, January 7, 2021 Lengthy battle sees solicitor cleared by the NSW CA ... WorkCover hearing aid drama draws to a close ... NCAT downed again ... The "fiend" ... Possible innocent pen stroke by solicitor's secretary ... Or maybe a paralegal ... But probably the client did it ... Alan Zheng reports
Monday, January 4, 2021 Tasmanian brief and the "ethnically" charged threat to international students ... Threat withdrawn ... Multiple texts at strange hours demanding payment of $650 ... You can't take Ipswich out of the man ... 5G conspiracies ... The former MP's "distinguished" political career saved his bacon ... Unprofessional conduct ... Alan Zheng reports
Polly Peck • Thursday, December 24, 2020 COVID fallout ... Step-by-step ... State-by-state ... Anna Kretowicz takes us through a year of gyrations, fashions and fear of missing out ... Pork pies from the pizza shop ... Scotty's moment in the sun ... Lockdowns ... Goodbye section 92 ... 'Straya, we love you
COVID, Government, Scott Morrison