Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
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The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >>
London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 US elections ... Republican plots to steal the outcome ... Supreme Court in the wings ... Declaration of an election "emergency" ... Prospects of state and federal criminal indictments ... Fictions at the Republican National Convention ... Long-term Washington hand Roger Fitch reports
Judges • Friday, September 4, 2020 Parenting case before Judge Guy Andrew of the Circus Court ... Brute on the bench ... Is mentoring all there is? ... Horrifying transcript ... How did this abusive creature end up as a judge? ... A fortiori ... Federal judicial commission absent without leave ... Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports
On The Couch • Thursday, September 3, 2020 President of the Judicial Conference of Australia speaks about the burning issues for the judiciary ... Attacks on judges ... Judicial selection ... The work of the JCA ... Her frustrations as a judge ... The benefits of a bar fridge on the back verandah ... Curried eggs on toast ... Justice Judith Kelly from the Northern Territory Supreme Court is on Justinian's Couch
Procrustes • Wednesday, September 2, 2020 The militarisation of police ... Police have become too strong for politicians to handle ... Hothouse atmosphere ... Death and shootings in Minneapolis and Kenosha ... Malarkey in Western Australia ... Police unions stand by their shooters and chokers ... Citizens whinging when the town burns down ... Procrustes on what happens when citizens turn a blind eye to excess
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, August 28, 2020 Novichok comes to England ... The story of Putin's hit men trying to take out a former double agent ... A dab on the door handle ... Lockdown and fear as police and health experts struggle to contain this most deadly of nerve agents ... Alexi Navalny the latest victim of state ordered poisoning ... Miss Lumière files from well behind the front line
Leverhulme • Thursday, August 27, 2020 Lords, ladies and gentlemen ... Pandemic reading ... Leverhulme in London gets to grips with two books from top-of-the tree English judges ... Sir Richard Henriques with From Crime to Crime and Lord Brown's Playing Off the Roof and Other Stories ... Giving Jonathan Sumption a poke in the eye ... Sensible chaps providing a respite in a shouty world
Goings On ..., Theodora • Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Covid-19 updates from Level 29 Aickin Chambers ... Freedoms should be restored ... Death rates confined to oldies ... Missives to Prof. Brett Sutton seeking projections ... "Cytokine storm" not wished for ... Beautiful charts and graphs ... And, appeal judges in Sydney smile on a solicitor the Law Society wanted binned ...Theodora on her rounds
City Desk • Monday, August 24, 2020 Robin and his merry men ... The Tamil takes up a senior position at the Rule of Law Institute bringing with him a fresh approach - e.g. people should be locked up even when they are acquitted ... "Nice legal arguments" are the enemies of the rule of law ... Exciting breakthrough: judges should allow confessions made under duress ... Theodora reports
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Governments need to be more charitable and fix the fundraising rules for charities ... Nightmarish over-regulation that adversely affects small charities, in particular ... Millions of dollars diverted to comply with different laws in each jurisdiction ... Tom Manousaridis had the goods
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