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 >>
Polly gets a cracker ... The Parrot falls from his bully pulpit … Performances … The end of the Wharf Revue … Bruce McClintock on stage at The Onion Club … Freaks on the loose in Washington ... 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 >>
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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I Once Met ... • Wednesday, September 1, 2021 A glimpse of the simpatico Hawke ... Boating up north ... A photo opportunity ... Lister Harrison invited to snap the former PM with his arm around a local man
I Once Met ... • Friday, August 27, 2021 Introducing I Once Met ... Readers' recollections about their encounters with the great, the good and the not-so-good ... First in a series ... Leverhulme has a brusque introduction to Bob Hawke in 1989
Bob Hawke, Leverhulme Book review • Friday, August 20, 2021 Book worm review by Anna Kretowicz ... Who Gets to be Smart ... A broken education system propping up the old world order ... The "truth" behind Rhodes and his scholars ... Production mill for elites ... Confusion and insecurities abound
Obit • Thursday, August 5, 2021 Obituary for Hal Wootten AC QC ... 1922-2021 ... Barrister - Law dean - Judge - Law reform commissioner - Royal commissioner - Press Council chairman - Environmentalist ... Indigenous rights and protections ... The cause of Palestinians ... Lawyer with a wide reach
Hal Wootten Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 29, 2021 In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike
Film review, Streaming On the Couch • Friday, July 16, 2021 A new book on H.V Evatt, the lawyer, judge and politician, from author and journalist Gideon Haigh ... Exploration of Evatt's dissent in the great nervous shock case Chester v Council of the Waverley Municipality ... What on earth were the other High Court judges thinking? ... Great turning points in law, politics and history ... With some fine attitudes we find Gideon Haigh on Justinian's Couch
Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 8, 2021 Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view
Film review, Sexual offences Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The post WW11 tribunal that tried the Japanese leadership ... Inventing crimes after the event ... Eleven judges wrestle with the complexities over three years ... Egos muddled with legal principles ... Miss Lumière reviews the Netflix mini-series on Japanese war crimes
Film review, Mini-series, War crimes Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Australian Law Reform Commission sends not so happy greetings on the birthday of the Corporations Act ... Mother, father and son in dialogue ... The youngster had put on weight, lost his way, hasn't caught up ... The commission tries new methods to draw attention ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 What's going on with law and justice in Hong Kong ... Large number of accused in democracy clamp-down ... Special judges who accept subservient role ... Preliminary election regarded as subversion ... Legislative Council expected to be "patriotic" ... Newspaper proprietor in prison ... Text books being re-written ... Exodus accelerates ... From Our Man Clinging On In Hong Kong