Aged care
The Map • Monday, July 5, 2021 Former Apple Isle DPP denounces plan to increase the retirement age of judges ... Slings and arrows aimed at the chief justice ... A more youthful and reformist bench is required ... Judges should be refreshed ... Graphs and charts ... Studies on age and mental deterioration ... Tim Ellis puts the case for ageism
Mixed bag from SCOTUS
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, July 5, 2021 Supreme Court wraps up its latest term with some notable shockers ... Another stick of gelignite to blow up the Voting Rights Act ... Secrecy for rich donors to political causes ... But freedom for profane speech ... Department of Justice going slow on prosecuting Capitol insurrectionists ... War criminal and former defence secretary dead at 88 ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
NCAT sucks
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, June 30, 2021 The Bureau de Spank's decision not to spank a barrister over his nasty sexist piggery has caused ructions up-and-down the Street of Shame ... Attack on female barristers' clerk ... EFA, A and H ... All OK because the brief has reflected on his conduct ... Frame by frame analysis ... Name suppressed to protect offender from further harm ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
When greenwashing can't hide the fossil stains
Court in the Act • Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Porter's imperfections
Polly Peck • Friday, June 25, 2021 Porter hanging-on in Cabinet amid rising stench ... Publication of painful dossier compiled by alleged victim of rape ... More unattractive character details about the former attorney general ... No inquiry into whether he is fit and proper to remain in government ... Murdoch hack wants inquiry into the ABC ... Polly Peck reports
Tokyo Trial
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 ... Creating law to fit extraordinary circumstances ... Miss Lumière reviews the Netflix mini-series on Japanese war crimes
Clive Palmer QC
Court in the Act • Monday, June 21, 2021 Palmer in the High Court fighting for his $28 billion ... Taking the State of Western Australia to the cleaners ... Nuremberg trials ... Martin Luther King ... Rule of law ... Clive wants his iron ore ... Tears and emotion unparalleled in the court's history ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on proceedings before an awestruck bench