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 • Tuesday, March 31, 2020 The "independent" bar goes cap-in-hand to the government ... Game's up ... One dissenting voice above the parapet ... Trying to prop-up the chambers working model ... Turnover of bar staff ... NSW Law Society in upheaval as a cabal seeks to change the constitution and sideline dissenting voices ... Theodora reports
Artemus Jones • Thursday, March 19, 2020 Hilary Penfold's vintage from 2011 ... Dry and too much oak ... Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered ... Respondent shot by the coppers ... Damages judgment ... Overly long and detailed reasons ... Riddled with errors ... Undermining public confidence in the judiciary ... Artemus Jones reprises
Around the Firms • Thursday, March 19, 2020 The role political opinions may or may not play in sacking a consultant to a major law shop ... Insubordination and being rude about a client ... Close connection to expressing a political opinion ... Fair Work Act ... Acceptable to communicate views to anyone but the media ... Martinet ... Motivations ... Stephen Murray reports
Artemus Jones • Monday, March 16, 2020 Hilary term ... Another judgment from retired ACT judge Hilary Penfold ... Preposterous delay of nearly six years creates more problems for the litigants ... Overburdened judgment writing style ... Reproduction of vast tracks of submissions ... Unclear reasoning ... Lavish dinner proposed by Artemus Jones
Hellfire Club • Friday, March 13, 2020 Lawyer spankings resume after jurisdictional collapse ... NCAT picks-up disciplinary cases where it left off ... Helpful legislative amendments to the rescue ... Wollongong solicitor ignored missives from the Law Society ... Compliance required before trading ticket reissued ... Poverty ... Despair ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Bigotry Bulletin • Thursday, March 12, 2020 The attorney general's draft religious discrimination legislation ... A patchwork of contradictory provisions ... Stealing one person's protections for the benefit of others ... Mess of pottage ... Shield and sword ... Statements of religious belief ... Vilification ... Who says Christians are persecuted? ... Nathan Twibill picks through the morass
Court in the Act • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Pell v The Queen ... Cardinal's High Court appeal ... Written submissions weighed by Alan Zheng ... Pell says the jury's verdict was unreasonable ... Factual inconsistencies ... Alibi evidence ... Parting of the robes ... Onus and standard of proof ... Crown says the threshold for overturning a jury verdict is high ... Limited role for appeal judges
Procrustes • Friday, March 6, 2020 Misguided furore from the Murdocracy over the High Court's decision in the Aboriginal "aliens" case ... The court had been down the "birth" track before - in 1908 ... "Belonging" that is so strong that it can't be removed ... Special legislation to ring-fence Indigenous intrusion into mining and other "developments" ... Sprorts and discretionary handouts ... Plus ça change ... Paws stuck in the honey jar ... Procrustes at large