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 >>
Court in the Act • Saturday, July 18, 2020 Apple Isle confusion over pleadings in a negligence claim ... The potting machine out of action after a power surge ... Poles and wires ... How much pleading is necessary? ... Only the facts, not the legal arguments ... The Judicature Act ... The common law in play ... The Map ... Janek Drevikovsky reveals all
Court in the Act • Friday, July 17, 2020 MH17 class action ... Plane shot down over Ukraine ... Non-resident cannot sue under Montreal Convention ... Family should not have been barred from the proceedings ... Failure to inform ... Insouciance ... Conduct of lawyers fell "well short" of their obligations ... Show cause why the lawyers should not pay the appellants' costs ... Mea Culpa ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
City Desk • Friday, July 17, 2020 Bottled Law ... Students and tech whizzes design life in the law of tomorrow ... NewLaw versus BigLaw ... Arming and training young lawyers with tech skills ... Removing the slog and having a better life ... From our tech rounds-person, Wallace Cloud
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, July 15, 2020 SCOTUS rules on Electoral College voting ... Sexual identity and civil rights ... Native-American reservations ... Dreamers ... Presidential tax records ... The power of theocrats and churches ... Some helpful rulings, others less so ... Justice Department habitually supporting Trump's personal battles in court ... Curious belief that a mentally unfit president could be reelected ... Maybe it is possible ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Judges • Friday, July 10, 2020 Latest from Circus Side ... Sal Vasta's written judgment recast from the original oral version ... Threat of imprisonment hits the cutting room floor ... Family Court appeal judges regret having to admonish the Circus judge ... Sigh ... Another burdensome remitted hearing ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Procrustes • Friday, July 10, 2020 The purges of Savonarola ... The Lubyanka ... Lt James Cook ... Fremantle Park ... Magdalene College ... Procrustes takes us on an historical magic carpet ride ... Statues and their threat to peace, order and good government ... How to manage dissension caused by images in bronze and stone
Judges • Thursday, July 9, 2020 The ashes of Dyson Heydon's standing scattered far and wide ... We're ashamed ... Tally of the catastrophe ... Retreat to the club ... No more blind eyes ... Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves ... Character, law, and judging ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports
Polly Peck • Friday, July 3, 2020 Bulletin from the Bear-Pit ... Recasting the top job at LECC ... Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons ... Crime and insanity ... Tendency evidence gets tweaked ... Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission ... Answers on notice ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street