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 >>
Court in the Act • Friday, August 13, 2021 Gold Coast money dreams ... Trading-Gambling scheme comes unglued ... Investors cleaned out ... Identity of conman hidden ... False and misleading conduct ... Solicitor aware of misrepresentations ... Various squirrelling activities ... Appeal fails ... Anna Kretowicz on the case
Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, August 12, 2021 The Roberts Supreme Court Court and its obstructions ... Gerrymanders could see the Republicans take back the House ... Members of the "sedition caucus" to testify before January 6 committee ... Big money behind the claims of election fraud ... Trouble ahead for Trump lawyers ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, reports
Bar Talk, Polly Peck • Sunday, August 8, 2021 Hellfire Club • Sunday, August 8, 2021 What's going on? ... Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side ... Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues ... Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues ... Doom beckons if identity is revealed ... Hanging by a threat ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Around the Firms • Thursday, August 5, 2021 Expensive family law shop divorce ... Negligent advice to stroke partner unable to work ... Incomplete advice ... NSW CA shaves nearly half-a-million from Rothman J's award of damages ... Commercial law firm still up for about $1 million in damages ... Misery ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
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
Court in the Act • Monday, August 2, 2021 Don't bring your affidavits to Justice Lee ... Federal Court judge delivers a bollicking ... In remembrance of Lord Buckmaster ... Witnesses statements by affidavit ... Herbert Smith Freehills in the frame ... Inauthentic accounts of evidence ... Leaky wells ... Legal drafting supplants "real words" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports