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 >>
Former senator can't get enough litigation ... Linda Reynolds suing the Commonwealth and lawyers HWL Ebsworth over the Brittany Higgins settlement ... Claim that $2.4 million payment to former staffer affirmed Higgins' allegation ... Statement of claim ... Commonwealth Courts Portal >>
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 >>
Around the Firms • Monday, June 3, 2019 He thought it was romance ... She believed it was sexual harassment ... Sal Vasta gets to work on law firm principal's over-wrought advances ... $170,000 awarded to female solicitor trapped at Bangelow law shop with predatory pest ... The perils of trying to stop smoking ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Around the Firms • Friday, May 31, 2019 Piper Alderman's kitchen sink drama ... Who's bullying whom? ... Injunction preventing meeting to sack property partner discharged ... Human rights complaint against law shop still on foot ... The workplace and women lawyers ... Allegations at 10 paces ... Insulting emails ... The works
Wendler on Wine • Thursday, May 30, 2019 Distress that Australia's great wine commentator and educator celebrated his birthday with a selection of French wines ... Born in the wrong year ... Discrimination ... What's wrong with local wines for a well-deserved celebratory toast? ... Gabriel Wendler stirs up a storm in a wine glass ... Epistle to a Burgundian
Court in the Act • Friday, May 24, 2019 The long arm of dishonesty doesn't catch up with an applicant for the provision of "credit services" ... ASIC smells danger but the High Court says spent convictions must be ignored ... Hair-raising collection of ancient offences and scrapes ... Law admission blocked and struck-off as a migration agent and a tax agent ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Friday, May 10, 2019 Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff
Polly Peck • Friday, May 10, 2019 Polly Peck delves into the salmagundi of law & justice policies on offer by the two major parties ... May 18 election ... Policies that have been missing in action during the campaign ... Rights ... Integrity Commissions ... Family law reform ... Judicial and quasi-judicial appointments ... Legal aid ... Indigenous Australians ... Prosecuting Banks and finance companies ... Whistleblower protections ... Catching more crims ... Take your pick