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 >>
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Biden moves well to the left of Obama and the Clintons ... Attorney General Merrick Garland starts repair job at the Department of Justice ... Weeding out the Trump "burrowers" ... Implications for Guantánamo "war prisoners" in light of Afghanistan withdrawal ... Republicans push ahead with electoral rorts ... More Trump corruption emerging ... Roger Fitch's letter from America
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