Justinian's archive
Noble sentiments bite lawyer on the bottom
Court in the Act • Wednesday, November 27, 2013 Failure to follow one's own advice ... Adventures in Discovery Land ... High Court goes to town on failure to return privileged doscuments ... Bollicking for NSW Appeals and Marque Lawyers ... Marque's chieftan so eloquant on matters of principle ... Alix Piatek reports
Readers fees are reasonable, says Selth
Bar Talk • Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Letter to Justinian from NSW bar 'n' grill ... In defence of readers fees ... Barrister's homophobic attack deplored ... Response to Dance of the sugar plum fairy
NSW Bar Association, Readers Dance of the sugar plum fairy
Bar Talk • Friday, November 22, 2013 Anti-gay rant from barrister ... Upsetting bar election results ... The Page Boy to receive a good talking-to ... Bar's monopoly fees for readers ... Jarrod Bleijie is dancing rings around No Waves
Bully for you
Court in the Act • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Department of inhuman resources ... Question time ... WorkCover NSW in the dock over bullying ... The workplace health and safety enforcer with an unhealthy workplace ... Alix Piatek reports
WorkCover NSW Spanking with wet lettuce
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Defenestration of Qld's independent legal profession regulator ... Powerless to administer decent spanks ... The system was designed to be half-baked ... Alix Piatek reports
Whirlpool's reverse cycle
Around The Firms • Monday, November 18, 2013 Clerkship candidates share law firm stories and advice online ... Networking and marks the key to getting a foot in the door ... Beware the perils of the cocktail party ... Paul Karp surveys the social media strategy helping students get past the spin
Clerkships, Law firms, Law students Am I missing something?
Procrustes • Monday, November 18, 2013 Louis Brandeis J warned you about evesdropping ... Undercover work and the risk of paternity suits ... Queensland's VLAD law clearly aimed at criminal clubs such as the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches ... Well-educated Brit trooper shoots Taliban prisoner ... Procrustes opines
Say sorry
Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 13, 2013 No costs when offer of compromise has grammatical errors ... Apologise to Wal, insists Antagonistic ... Clients get money back from national law shop
Bring on the cakes
Court in the Act • Monday, November 11, 2013 Map of Tasmania ... Minimal laughter at editor's oration to magistrates ... Lingering questions unanswered ... Ellis case
Magistrates, Map of Tasmania, Tim Ellis Fresh phlegm
Bar Talk • Monday, November 11, 2013 Expectoration in Phillip Street ... Keys hands in his key at St James Hall ... Ginger Snatch reports
Bruce McClintock, Stuart Littlemore From the bear pit
Polly Peck • Thursday, November 7, 2013 Labor barrister returns to NSW parliament ... Collier's by-election victory rescues Opposition Leader John Robertson from caucus coup ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell recalls Keating's anti-Robbo spray
NSW politics Pineapple Pol
Judges • Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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Vroom, Vroom ... Qld magistrates go on red alert for bikie menace ... Court of Appeal to decide on separation of powers ... Or will appeal judges do "what the community wants"?
Operatic costume change
Around The Firms • Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Defamatorium ... Kim Williams lawyers-up against the newspaper his lawyers used to defend ... Opera House hissy fit denied ... Working both sides of Libel Street ... It's not over till the fat lady sings
Defamation, Fairfax Media, Kim Williams, Mark O'Brien Vic Supremes bungy jump experiment
Judges • Sunday, November 3, 2013 Out of the closet ... Vic Supremes showing its face to the world ... NSW CJ skeptical about social media ... Different approaches to handling spreading the rule-of-law message ... Alix Piatek reports
Terrorist haberdashers
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Rich pickings to be had from new season at the Supremes ... All aboard for questioning on the high seas ... NY trials for alleged embassy bombers ... What to do with all the evesdropped information? ... IT problems for defence counsel at Guantánamo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports
CIA torture, Guantanamo, Law of war, Taliban Entertainment boutiques brace for the next act
Around The Firms • Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Entertainment law field not crowded but full of "pretenders" ... Technology, not competition, the real game changer ... Paul Karp surveys the specialist firms with glamour-puss clients
Arts law, Brett Oaten, Entertainment Law, Kay & Hughes, Simpsons All the Queen's horses
Bar Talk • Monday, October 28, 2013 The Wyles One touting new numbers favouring QC option for Yarraside bar ... Five percent speak ... Sydney barrister Greg Curtin issues bar election manifesto: solicitors can be bad for the administration of justice
On your bike
Hellfire Club • Sunday, October 27, 2013 Foul mouthed Queensland lawyer sent, again, to the Bureau de Spank ... Doesn't care, as he says he's about the retire ... Doug and his Winning ways ... SA Supreme Court says public confidence in the legal profession is of the utmost importance ... Oops, they much have forgotten the hit-and-run case of Eugene McGee
Whyte man's burden
Bar Talk • Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Unsatisfactory professional conduct … Delayed flight ... Trial missed … Trouble getting off sub-tropical island ... Conferenceville ... Rest and recreation ... Egregious error