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 >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... 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 >>
Debbie Does Damien ... Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... ABC's Law Report ... The ins and out of live streaming and the media's access to documents ... More >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... 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 >>
Bar Talk • Monday, August 3, 2020 UPDATE ...Shining light of the Yarraside bar 'n' grill has withdrawn his defence to overcharging allegations in the Banksia Securities class action ... Conceded judgment should be made against him and that it is appropriate he be struck from the jam roll ... Fee doctoring on an industrial scale ... Transcript ... Contradictor's compilation of misdeeds ... Ginger Snatch reports
Goings On ..., Theodora • Friday, July 31, 2020 The Tamil's legal affairs section has closed-up shop, but he's still scribbling for The Australian as a contributor ... Lucky us ... Paid private tours of the courts and cosy chats with judges organised by Robin and his Merry Men ... Rule of law gets a libertarian makeover ... Theodora reports
Leverhulme • Wednesday, July 29, 2020 People in the Old Dart struggle to get to grips with pandemic life ... Criminal barristers are on the skids ... Pub etiquette has changed ... Try ordering a pint ... Compulsory masks in shops ... Leverhulme meets trouble in the bakery ... Righteous zealots take the high ground ... Crisis report
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Around the Firms • Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Full Feds fed-up to the back teeth ... Eldon's submissions scotched ... Appeal from harassing conveyancer tossed out ... Sexual harassment that was not meant to be sexual ... Solicitor in his underwear ... Loitering in female employee's bedroom ... Hugs ... Damages should have been greater ... An elephant in love ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Around the Firms • Monday, July 27, 2020 UPDATE ... Constitutional deconstruction ... The anti-mask, no jabs brigade looks to the outer reaches of the law for support ... Freedom-loving conspiracy theorists fighting tyranny and trolls ... GoFundMe's cash sprinkler ... Bill Gates to blame ... Alan Zheng reports from the frontline
Barely Legal • Saturday, July 25, 2020 Collapse of the world order ... Yet, the annual round of law firm clerkship applications proceeds unabated ... Zoomathons without tasty sandwiches ... The pitches ... The critical questions ... The psychometric tests ... The online interviews ... Barely Legal jumps through hoops to land a poorly paid plum job
Polly Peck • Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Kerr's correspondence with the Palace on the Loans Affair prosecution ... Shifting claims of Crown privilege ... Resignation of attorney general Ellicott ... The GG away at the opera when the executive council agreed to raise $4 billion in petrodollars ... The Queen didn't much like Alan Reid's unbalanced opinions ... Send me another book, please ... Kerr's views on Neville Wran ... Stephen Murray delves into remote corners of the Palace Letters