Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >>
Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >>
BAQ president announces real estate move from Inns of Court to accomodate expanded bar bureaucracy ... More >> Detailed considerations >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Zeilgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
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Court in the Act • Friday, July 29, 2022 Remote vs in-the-flesh hearings … Split bench of Allsop, Bell, and Ferguson CJs… Less Q & A … More flexibility … Less humanity … More efficiency … Judicial hits on YouTube … Coat of arms not just a piece of artwork …Winds of conservatism blow briskly through the legal world … Margery Ai reports
City Desk • Thursday, July 14, 2022 Q & A about Julian Assange with Greg Barns SC, adviser to the Australian Assange Campaign ... Charges ... Journalism ... Espionage Act ... First Amendment ... Extradition decision and the prospects of appeal ... Flight risk ... More from Wikileaks
Greg Barns, Julian Assange On the Couch • Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Stephen Charles AO QC, one of the well-known advocates for a national integrity commission, is on Justinian's Couch ... Career highlights ... Personal weaknesses ... Australia's failing on asylum seekers and refugees ... John Howard's overrated standing ... Would be happy as a teacher
Stephen Charles AO QC Friday, April 8, 2022 Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken suspicion based on citizenship status ... Migration Act ... Background, arguments and implications ...Difficult challenge for the High Court ... Codey Swadling reports
Miss Lumière • Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Bosnian war crimes ... The Srebrenica massacre ... The fruitless struggle to save a family ... Failure of the United Nations and NATO ... Europe's worst bloodshed since WW11 ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Critics Corner Tuesday, November 30, 2021 The arc of life ... A memoir from the former inaugural Commonwealth DPP ... The foundation ICAC commissioner ... Momentous decisions ... Searing fallouts ... C.N. Brown reviews With Conviction
I Once Met ... • Tuesday, November 16, 2021 The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975
I Once Met ... • Monday, November 1, 2021 Discussion on mental health during Greek law conference ... Cruising the Aegean in dress shoes ... Wig and gown for tribunal hearings ... Dull, boring presentation from the judge ... Question from the rear of the room ... Tom Kelly remembers
Angelo Vasta I Once Met ... • Sunday, October 24, 2021 Journalist and champion swimmer Alex Mitchell in the pool with the President of Uganda ... The lap that Field Marshal Amin won ... Lord of All The Beasts of the Earth ... Lured into an interview by flattery ... Rifling the presidential desk ... Bodies in the lake ... Scary time in Kampala
On the Couch • Friday, October 22, 2021 Jo Dyer was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when she became an advocate for her deceased friend Kate - after Kate's accusations of rape against then attorney general Christian Porter were posthumously made public ... The theatre, film, television and festival producer is On The Couch