Time's Up for Naughty Nathan ... Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled ... Misuse of online funding campaigns ... Spraying ripe and abusive language ... Trolling Robert Beech-Jones ... So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Sex, Bribes, and Club Fed ... Ms Maxwell comes out … Sex offender gets Bryan … The merry-go-round of sleaze … Protection rackets and shake-downs … Flashing orange light for Moloch … Thank God for rigged figures … Morpheus awake ... Read on >>
Wither the Republic ...Twenty years of Roger Fitch ... He says this is his last column from Washington ... A brief history of American law and governance since Bush II ... The Roberts' court and reshaping the Constitution ... Hollowing out the Bill of Rights ... Murdoch's malign influence ... Shakedowns and bribes ... Read more >>
Standing Council of Attorneys General ... Press conference with AG Rowland ... Regime to check people working with children ... Round and round the mulberry bush ... More >>
Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and Betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... Plenty to think about ... Court reporter Ginger Snatch files ... Read more >>
Abolish silks ... Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002 ... Read more >>
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 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
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Judges on strike over constitutional changes ... Independence of prosecutors at stake ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports
Critics' Corner • Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains
Lee J, Publishing On the Couch • Sunday, January 26, 2025 Damien Carrick has presented Law Report on the ABC for 23 years ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests ... On The Couch
Thursday, November 28, 2024 Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP
Sports Desk • Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments
Rugby League, Unions Friday, November 15, 2024 Church abuse survivor given the Bird ... High Court and the "agency" of Catholic priests ... No liability for predatory clerics ... How did we get to this? ... What would Peter McClellan think? ... Procrustes on the latest loophole for the church
Obit • Monday, October 28, 2024 Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art
Obit. Percy Allan Monday, October 14, 2024 SCOOP ... Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council ... Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct ... Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons ... Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian