Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... 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 ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... Read more >>
Hellfire Club • Monday, April 26, 2021 Elderly barrister out of tune with contemporary mores ... Left without a chair when the music stopped ... Spanked for sexual harassment of a junior female ... Confusion about "comforting gesture" ... Flippant remarks ... Arm around shoulder ... Unfunny jokes ... Alan Zheng reports
Polly Peck • Monday, April 19, 2021 Sexual harassment allegations from the cloacal underbelly of One Nation ... Former senator suing P. Hanson ... Former staffer also suing over alleged sexual harassment by ex-senator ... Deed of release - Commonwealth not liable ... Another scarifying experience of political life ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case
Court in the Act • Monday, April 19, 2021 Coppers from Strike Force Raptor harass NSW country solicitor acting for a bikie ... Intimidation ... Stalked, shaken and stirred ... Prevented from representing the client ... A good wet lettuceing ... Law Society knocks on the commissioner's door ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Friday, April 16, 2021 As Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan the war involving VC recipient Ben Robert-Smith heats up ... New allegations against the former soldier ... Defamation proceedings have not kyboshed fresh news breaks ... Kerry Stokes' role as a litigation funder ... Hero worship knows no bounds ... Important trial for journalism and public interest reporting
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, April 6, 2021 The Cold War and its spies ... Getting military secrets out of the Soviet Union ... Cuban missile crisis ... Khrushchev unhinged ... Let's Twist Again ... How MI6 and the CIA betrayed their informant ... Benedict Cumberbatch, as the ordinary Greville Wynne, comes to the "rescue" ... Miss Lumière at the flicks
Court in the Act • Thursday, April 1, 2021 Buffalo Bruce • Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Top End capers ... NT judge says she was defamed by silk in an article in which she wasn't named ... Article said to be indefensible ... Judge threatens to take it further ... History of bad blood ... Journalist complains about ripe language from barrister ... Another first ... Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin