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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Around The Firms • Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Former Clayton Utz solicitor sues the firm for defamation … Email sent at the direction of former Law Soc prez Joe Catanzariti … Partners argue that proposed amended statement of claim “seriously prejudices them” ... Justice Simpson says firm’s submission is “inapt”
Clayton Utz, Defamation Sunday, June 13, 2010 Pious Cant, trapped at Big Law in Tokyo, examines frottage brought on by the excitement of high-end economic activity … Making obscene amounts of money increases the libidinous quotient … The BBC is to blame
Stephen Keim • Wednesday, June 9, 2010 The aid flotilla attempting to breach the Israeli blockade is just the latest in the Gaza protest movement … Australian lawyers Ann Cunningham and Stephen Keim report on the Cairo protests earlier this year … US Embassy showed it has the muscle to halt violence by Egyptian security forces
Gaza protests Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, May 28, 2010 Our Man in Washington ... The cynical view is that Elena Kagan suits Prez Obama’s concepts of executive power … Latest thinking from the US Supremes on juvenile and sex offenders … Foreign detainees have no habeas rights … Assassination by drone and the law of war … Roger Fitch reports
City Desk • Friday, May 28, 2010 A legal profession regulated by layers not lawyers … Independence in tatters … Judges and trade union reps rise-up against proposed national reforms … The English legal system remains strangely unthreatened by non-lawyer regulators … Samantha Bowers reports
Barry Lane • Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Injured workers seem to have multiple bites of the cherry until they stumble on the “right” opinion from a medical panel … Barry Lane’s eyes are watering as he contemplates the cost to the long suffering taxpayer … Time for some parliamentary penmanship
William Collins • Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Application of contemporary standards to use of the F%#*-word in public … Context is everything in coming to grips with indecent language … Justice Beach shows the way in Easter egg drama
Tulkinghorn • Saturday, May 22, 2010 The tricky business of making doctors liable for their negligence, while exempting lawyers from liability for theirs … With the High Court on side, how can the lawyers lose? ... Tulkinghorn teases the issue
Court in the Act • Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Peter Blunden works behind Bruce Guthrie’s back to have him sacked as editor of the Herald Sun ... Whether putting news about Collingwood FC on page one sells more papers … Justice Kaye’s observations about Blunden … More from the trial transcript of Guthrie v News Ltd
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, May 17, 2010 Terror trial dramas … The Omar Khadr case where the crimes are unknown to the law of war … Manipulating the Military Commission system … New rule that a law of war conviction doesn’t require a law of war violation … Pentagon bans four leading reporters from Guantánamo
Guantanamo, Law of war, Military Commissions Hellfire Club • Monday, December 31, 2007 Young Melbourne barrister struck off the roll a year after signing it … failure to come clean over essay collaboration with fellow student
Callinan Diaries • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Ian Callinan unwraps his presents at the farewell dinner thrown in his honour by Janette Howard. In this special, exclusive edition of his secret diaries© he unpacks the menu, the guests and his jurisprudential philosophy. Plus, we’re privy to the latest chapter in his upcoming thriller, The Cannelloni Conspiracy – A Recipe for Murder
Deja Vu • Friday, September 9, 2005 Bitchy email exchange between two members of staff in the Sydney office of Allens over missing lunch ... Employer of choice for women ... From our deja vu file
Allens Arthur Robinson Deja Vu • Friday, September 9, 2005 Flood-affected Brisbane lawyers thought they had it bad ... Here's a 2005 letter from a law professor in Louisiana on the massive flooding that accompanied Hurricane Katrina ... Lawyers' offices, documents, clients, courts, bar association, prisons, universities - all underwater
Hurricane Katrina, floods and lawyers Bar Talk • Wednesday, October 1, 2003 Unwinding Gus Cummins’ 1987 wholesale transfer of assets sees a $1.6 million haul for the trustee of the former silk's bankrupt estate ... JC, QC, AJC ... Failure to lodge tax returns for 40 years ... From Justinian's archive, October 1, 2003
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 An all dancing, all singing judiciary, media savvy and bristling to be interviewed ... Judges cook-up bold plans to be nice to journalists ... What happened? ... Deja Vu ... From Justinian in 2003
Deja Vu • Thursday, March 6, 2003 Strange tales from the world of Dyce Heydon ... At the time of his swearing-in as a judge of the High Court speculation swirled that warrior princess Janet Albrechtsen would be Heydon J's associate ... Application of the verb to albrecht ... Bitchy attacks in 4th ed of Equity Doctrines & Remedies ... From Justinian's Deja Vu file
Equity, Janet Albrechtsen, Justice Heydon Saturday, January 1, 2000 From Justinian's hard copy era ... When tax schemes were in your face ... And Andrew Rogers ruled the NSW Supreme Court commercial division with an iron fist in a titanium glove
Deja Vu • Saturday, January 1, 2000 Father and son team ... Gruzman snr cleared by stipes of threat to withdraw from case over insult to his son and junior ... Heinous accusation of barrister attending client's premises without instructing solicitor ... Row over fees
Threat to withdraw 