Appeal judges twiddle the knobs
Court in the Act • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Walter Mitty con artist gets lower sentence from the NSW CCA ... Ponzi schemer fleeced friends, lovers and whoever else he could get his hands on ... Deficient personality ... Original sentence excessive and the result of an unbalanced process ... Too much judicial emotion ... Pep-talk to the media on reporting sentences ... Victims still largely penniless ... Alan Zheng reports
Counsel's advice on spinach puffs
Barely Legal • Thursday, February 18, 2021 Enduring a miserable scholarship ceremony ... How the victim of a Westpac bank robbery restored Barely Legal's faith in the pinstripe prison ... The informative Uber driver ... Two canapés too many
High Ground
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, February 16, 2021 If you occupy the high ground, you control everything ... A white man's war-time notion ... Colonial invasion in all its savagery ... The King's law confronts justice for the dispossessed ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Secret sheriffs' business
Procrustes • Friday, February 5, 2021 South Australian chief justice lashes the use of secret evidence by parliamentary inquiry ... Finding of a culture of bullying in the Sheriff's Office ... Ummm ... This is the same CJ, who as solicitor general, assisted in plans for secret police intelligence to be unchallenged in court ... Procrustes reports on the storm that has spilled from the teacup