Fresh blood for the NSW District Court ... Appointments >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >>
Victoria Mole, Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Victoria's plan for centralised health records ... Compulsory opt-in ... No opt-out ... Human rights and privacy concerns ... Potential leakage of sensitive personal details ... Digital records of the unhealthy ... Hugh Vuillier reports from Yarraside
Foreign Desk • Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Legal eruptions in Israel ... Spurious justification for usurping the authority of the Supreme Court ... Judicial review rendered useless ... Bibi's "home free" card ... Neutering the constitution ... New mechanism for politicised judicial appointments ... Black Robes on the barricades ... Max Shanahan reports
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, February 28, 2023 The trickle down judiciary ... Novel legal theories the order of the day ... No precedents required ... Trump's debauchery of the courts is coming home to roost ... Forum shopping for "Trump judges" ... Gilead fermenting ... High noon for the Murdochs ... DeSantis' torture taint ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, February 24, 2023 Around the Firms • Thursday, February 23, 2023 HWL Ebsworth found to be negligent in arrangements for massive land deal in western Sydney ... Quantum of damages yet to be determined ... Loss of opportunity to develop the land ... Failure to amend joint venture agreement in accordance with plaintiffs' instructions ... Don't fence me in
Critics Corner • Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Law students in Africa ... Pan African mooting ... Intense competition ... Idealism versus ambition ... Friendships strained ... "African values" and human rights ... Documentary reviewed by Max Shanahan