Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >>
My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >>
Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Procrustes • Tuesday, October 25, 2011 This country used to have leaders ... Now it's got cyphers, driven by the distortions from focus groups and pollsters ... That's why our handling of asylum seekers had been such a disgrace ... Procrustes climbs onto his high horse, which is tethered conveniently nearby
Asylum seekers, Boat people Polly Peck • Monday, October 24, 2011 Advice from OIL sets off fiery questions from oily senator about the Malaysian Solution ... Meeting a dead-bat at the estimates committee ... What's happened to the federal courts Bill? ... Meanwhile, there's a quiet review into integrating the "backend" of federal courts and tribunals ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra
Federal courts, Malaysian Solution Bar Talk • Thursday, October 20, 2011 Rumblings in Phillip Street ... Silk refusenicks run for council elections ... More detailed information to be supplied to failed applicants for silk ... Process could drag on into next month ... "Vote for change"
Bar council elections, Silk selection Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Analysing the US Supremes most recent term - plenty of goodies for big business, nothing for plaintiff lawyers ... Alien Tort Statute up for a workout ... Torture cases batted around the circuit courts ... Rendition victims lose final appeal ... Our Man in Washington reports
Court in the Act • Tuesday, October 18, 2011 No public interest in what's interesting to the public ... Open justice takes a backseat as prevention of embarrassment trumps competing interests ... Rinehart ruling keeps family row under wraps for now ... Publication of slabs of interlocutory judgment in Styles v Clayton Utz off limits ... Clutz applied for a super-injunction to keep names under wraps
Around The Firms • Sunday, October 16, 2011 Styles v Clayton Utz ... Two judgments dealing with pleadings in the sex discrimination case against the large law shop ... Taunting photos ... Unfunny parodies ... Sexual tension ... Metro manwhoreishness
Bridgette Styles, Clayton Utz, Luis Izzo Barry Lane • Tuesday, October 11, 2011 We have to thank parliament for the rich opportunities to litigate and appeal ... The fostering of disputation is a political mission ... The fertile pastures of taxation, sentencing and injury compo ... GST issues surrounding an Italian mini ciabatta ... Digressions from Barry Lane
Bar Talk • Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Justinian
The selection of silk in NSW is stymied ... David Smallbone makes progress ... Trying to get to grips with the accuracy and fairness of a secretive process ... Arab Spring comes to Phillip Street
Senior Counsel selection Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, September 15, 2011 Female liberation Chinese style ... PRC Supremes say that if a wife brings nothing to a marriage, she gets nothing on the split-up ... As property prices soar, divorce booms ... Millions of young men with no home and no woman ... Trouble brewing ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
Family law, Mallett v Mallet Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Thursday, September 15, 2011 China's new "value" system ... Self-interest reigns ... The government says aiding people in distress could cause problems ... Stand back, don't interfere ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong
Civil Liability Act NSW Goings On ... • Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Non-lawyer abuses barrister's wig at Parramatta - bar draws up emergency plans ... Three years later, and still no date for Keddie disciplinary hearing ... Hughes and Rofe - senior silks sell their chambers ... Law firms doing pro bono refugee work prefer to fly under the radar
David Rofe, OLSC, PILCH, Russell Keddie, Tom Hughes, Wigs City Desk • Thursday, September 8, 2011 News from the bush capital ... ACT Law Society faces unprecedented vigorous three way presidential contest ... Justice Refshauge delivers 30-months reserved damages judgment after nudge from Justinian ... Latest from the Molonglo
Around The Firms • Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Exhibits in Styles v Clayton Utz released for publication by the NSW Supreme Court ... Pin-up boy Luis Izzo ... Allegation pix used to taunt and victimise plaintiff ... Life at big law
Bridgette Styles City Desk • Tuesday, September 6, 2011 The NSW Crime Commission in post-Standen mode ... Reviews, inquiries and (hidden) reports ... What next? ... Who can get a grip on the crime-busting outfit?
Polly Peck • Friday, September 2, 2011 It was Philip Ruddock's 2001 Tampa amendment to the Migration Act that opened the way for the High Court's decision on the Malaysia refugee swap deal ... Ironic isn't it? ... Gillard unfairly shafts French CJ ... The former Liberal Immigration Minister can now wear his Amnesty badge with pride ... Marcus Priest reports
High Court, Migration Act, Refugees Stephen Keim • Friday, September 2, 2011 Ten years after 9-11 ... Congressional resolution allows US courts to refuse habeas and to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge ... No evidence of wrongdoing required ... Stephen Keim's column
Law of war Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Large law firms prime candidates for deregulation ... The big corporate question: stay in-house or go external? ... Getting millions of dollars of legal work done for $150,000 ... Tulkinghorn thinks large law firms are less ethical than small ones
Law firms, Professional ethics Around The Firms • Tuesday, August 30, 2011 DPP Tim Ellis will have to shoulder his portion of a $1 million damages award by the Van Diemen's Land full court ... Grossly expensive spat with former client of Clarke & Gee ... Teeth gnashed across the Map of Tasmania
Court in the Act • Friday, August 26, 2011 Vic Appeals throws Michael Brereton a lifeline ... Celebrity lawyer did not owe fiduciary duties to clients who lost money in his retirement village scheme ... No beneficial interest in money paid to solicitor ... No misappropriation involved with funds that vanished ... Legal fairy dust
Polly Peck • Friday, August 26, 2011 While the Commonwealth's "genuine steps" pre-litigation requirements had a healthy birth at the beginning of the month, NSW's "reasonable steps" were strangled before they drew breath ... NSW government calls sniffer dog off the DPP's patch ... Last days of lump-sum cash for victims of crime
ADR, Greg Smith