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 >>
Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... 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 >>
Qld Bar 'n Grill announces eight new KCs for 2024 ... 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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Evan Whitton • Wednesday, September 1, 2010 The lies of war ... Andrew Wilkie and Afghanistan ... Dickie Pratt and the great box cartel heist ... Hiding evidence from everybody ... Michael Wilding gives dud journalism a whack ... Alf Parsons, diplomat, passes ... Evan Whitton observes
Judges • Tuesday, August 31, 2010 From across the ditch comes the sulphurous whiffs of judicial impropriety ... New Zealand appeal judge's conflict of interest ... Justice Bill Wilson failed to give full, open disclose about his financial involvement with senior counsel for litigant ... Traffic of distressing emails
Apprehended bias, Conflict of interest Stephen Keim • Monday, August 30, 2010 Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission lays waste to police investigation of Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody ... The smell of cover-up ... The roar of the police union ... Ghosts of Fitzgerald ... Stephen Keim and Alex McKean report
Polly Peck • Wednesday, August 25, 2010 REVISED ... Election outcome ... Major parties bereft of ideas and inspiration ... Independents fill the void ... Will the Governor General draw constitutional inspiration from Jolly John Kerr? ... Polly Peck's special insights
Tulkinghorn • Friday, August 20, 2010 Clients can't be smelt, even when they pong ... The GFC brought on with the valuable assistance of commercial lawyers ... They may not understand the documents ... But they understand how to bill ... Tulkinghorn on involuntary inertial disorder
GFC, commercial lawyers Barry Lane • Friday, August 20, 2010 Secret surveillance of workers claiming compo is about as useful as ASIO spying on the Aarons family ... The WorkCover industry is hooked on spooking ... Barry Lane files from Melbourne
Sir Terence O'Rort • Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Berna Collier is not travelling well at the Federal Court ... A full court bollocking is the latest in a lengthing list of unhappinesses ... Is it fair? ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports
Berna Collier, Federal Court Bar Talk • Monday, August 16, 2010 One hundred and twenty eight hopefuls have their hands up for the silk gown in the NSW bar's annual selection process ... New protocols to be tested ... Ambition, ego, status and money all jostling for a rails position ... We have the names
Senior Counsel selection Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, August 16, 2010 Bush hacks winning the war of attrition as Democrats bail out of the DoJ ... Khadr case shaping-up to set a dangerous precedent - it's a war crime to shoot at an American soldier ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
War crimes Leverhulme • Wednesday, August 11, 2010 London Calling … A nation racked with choice and diversity awareness … Insensitive judicial officers sent to re-education camps … Australian election steadfastly ignored … Evelyn Waugh’s explanation for never voting … Leverhulme files
Judicial complaints City Desk • Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Soapy George Brandis comes to town … Tickling the Sydney Bar ‘n’ Grill for campaign money … Others might want to actually press policy ideas at closed circle Beppi’s din-dins
Elections, Law and justice policies Stephen Keim • Monday, August 9, 2010 Administration switches tack in long running habeas case … Law of war … Detention without trial continues to flourish … Government lawyers doing their worst … Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree report
Habeas, Law of war Deja Vu • Thursday, August 5, 2010 Littlemore gets saucy … VicAppeals unhappy without two counsel … Languid Family Court judge hits herself in the face ... From Justinian February 1999
Slow judge, Two counsel rule Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, August 3, 2010 The tree of man … Ancient fight over fig tree on Eldons’ estate not over yet … Further appeals planned to get unimproved land value of Ascot spread reduced to almost zero … Stellar court room showing by Eldon patriarch … Sir Terence O’Rort reports
A.J.H. Morris, G.O.M. Morris, Lord Eldon City Desk • Monday, August 2, 2010 Not all mental breakdowns are equal … Some are more “reasonable” than others … Victoria leads the nation in workplace bullying claims … New amendments come as a great relief to captains of industry … Luke Williams reports
Bullying, Workers Compensation Friday, July 30, 2010 No win, lots of fees – remembering Copper 7 … Law and Social Work get cognate at U.Syd … Judge Felicity – feisty telly star … Wendler’s marmalade – by appointment ... All this over eight years ago ... From Justinian's archive
City Desk • Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Elections are less than eight months away for long-suffering NSW voters … Are the Liberals sticking to the promise not to engage in a law and order auction? ... The new agenda is rehabilitation, with punitive add-ons … The political straddle is alive and well … Samantha Bowers reports
Elections, Law & order auction Friday, July 23, 2010 MasterChef and its lawyer cooks … A round or two with Dyson Heydon is excellent training for plating-up to George, Gary and Matt … Leaving the brulée off the crème would be akin to omitting the vitals of a contract … Vicki Mole blogs
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, July 23, 2010 “You have a right to a speedy trial – unless they need to torture you first” ... The media’s characterisation of waterboarding – it used to be called torture, now it’s nothing special … Americans stripped of their citizenship by transport safety bureaucrats … Our Man in Washington reports
Guantanamo, Torture Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, July 22, 2010 Conflicts lawyers salivating … Hong Kong court told to butt out of case involving claims of sovereign immunity … US hedge fund wants it’s money back … Arbitral award over debts owed by state enterprises … Percy Lo-kit Chan files this report
Sovereign immunity 