Thursday
Aug282014
Silk queue
Bar Talk • Thursday, August 28, 2014 Applicants for Senior Counsel in New South Wales ... 102 put their hands up in a bleak market ... Repeat contenders aplenty ... The list in full
Justinian's archive
Bar Talk • Thursday, August 28, 2014 Wednesday
Aug272014
Madge Maley: waiting for the other shoe to drop
Court in the Act • Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Darwin seething with suggestions as to why Peter Maley quit the bench ... Stout defence of the compromised magistrate by the CLP government came to nothing ... More to come ... Reptiles pose a list of questions to the stricken beak
Tuesday
Aug262014
QC or bust
Bar Talk • Tuesday, August 26, 2014 NSW ginger group seeks to prise open the QC treasure chest ... Leagues Clubbers in cry for full plumage ... Rise of the one percent
Friday
Aug222014
Don't Hazzard a guess on Queen's bauble for NSW bar
Goings On ... • Friday, August 22, 2014 Rotten clients ... Pulp mill ... Brown stuff ... Fresh rallying call for NSW to appoint QCs
Wednesday
Aug202014
Migration agent scandal
Barry Lane • Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Barry Lane's memo to Hon. Scott Morrison ... Obsessed about backdoor boats, the minister has neglected the shonks at his front door ... Being dishonest is no disqualification for being a migration agent
tagged ASIC, Migration Agent
ASIC, Migration Agent Friday
Aug152014
Torture news
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, August 15, 2014 Contraception insurance and the theocratic consequences of Hobby Lobby ... CIA tortured find justice in Europe ... Guantánamo judge resigns as DC Court throws a spanner in the works of the Military Commissions ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch
tagged Guantanamo, Law of war, US Supreme Court
Guantanamo, Law of war, US Supreme Court Friday
Aug152014
The sound of one man bowing
Goings On ... • Friday, August 15, 2014 Solo bows ceremony grips Molonglo Supremes ... Press releases flowing from the QE11 Cauldron ... Slater & Gordon minting it as acquisitions pile up
Monday
Aug112014
NT AG rejects bar's call for inquiry into political magistrate
Court in the Act • Monday, August 11, 2014 Can a judicial officer be involved in party politics? ... Yes, of course, but only in the Northern Territory where the usual proprieties are in a state of suspension ... Country Liberal Party beak kept-up political connections and activity while on the bench ... So what, says the AG - friend and ally of the Madge
Friday
Aug082014
Brisbane notebook
City Desk • Friday, August 8, 2014 Judges bite back at criticisms from The Government Gazette ... Shane Doyle wins prize for most complicated high-dive at Knock-About's welcome ... Someone messing with the Cossack's air machine ... Lord Eldon calls for chiro help ... Bizarre attack on Fitzgerald and Margaret McMurdo ... Lawn Order Week
Friday
Aug012014
Picking a small bone
Bar Talk • Friday, August 1, 2014 Barrister's silk application arrives 12 minutes after deadline ... Told by bar executive director that it will not be considered ... No "special circumstances" ... Correspondence ... Lawyers at ten paces
Friday
Aug012014
Frontline reports
Goings On ... • Friday, August 1, 2014 Rejigging Mrs Keddie's property portfolio ... Missing bits from 4 Corners cult report ... The Elf hones his advocacy as he steps into street brawls ... Bailed-up by Hatzistergos ... DFAT's fat-headed super-injunction
tagged 4 Corners, Bail Act, Injunctions, John Elferink, Russell Keddie
4 Corners, Bail Act, Injunctions, John Elferink, Russell Keddie Monday
Jul282014
Asylum seekers - where to next?
City Desk • Monday, July 28, 2014 Asylum Seekers and the legal process ... High-powered panel thrashs out complex issues that are likely still to come before the High Court ... Can the government hold people at sea? ... Maritime Powers Act in play ... Nina Ubaldi reports
Monday
Jul282014
News from the QE11 Cauldron
Judges • Monday, July 28, 2014 Knock About running onto the paddock ... Muir JA sends critical missive to Nudgee Old Boys ... CJ out of his league with civil work, now fresh blunder comes to light on sentencing ... Newman and the Conveyancer General try and mend fences with judges and lawyers ... Knock About on the speech circuit
Tuesday
Jul222014
Court room calamities
Goings On ... • Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Solicitors struck down in the Defamation Court ... Who's going to replace Reg Blanch at the NSW Dizzo? ... Garry Neilson benched after pressure from AG ... Knock About Carmody seeking speech-writing skills ... Daphnis lost west of Winton
Monday
Jul212014
The guano flies as rule of law abused in client states
Court in the Act • Monday, July 21, 2014 Abuse of power by heads of state in Nauru and PNG ... Asylum seeker dumping grounds ... Australia unconcerned about abuses and corruption on our doorstep ... Judicial independence sacrificed for border security ... Client states pay the price ... Kate Lilly & R. Ackland report
Friday
Jul182014
The political stitch-up of David Hicks
Polly Peck • Friday, July 18, 2014 UPDATE ... David Hicks, demonised by the Howard government, pleaded guilty to a charge unknown to the law of war ... US appeals court says there is no such war crime as "material support for terrorism" ... Where does that leave the over-blown attacks on Hicks by Howard, his ministers and hacks from the Murdoch press?
tagged David Hicks
David Hicks Tuesday
Jul152014
Hicks: war crime missing in action
Court in the Act • Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Howard's terrorist pin-up boy David Hicks convicted of a war crime that doesn't exist ... DC Circuit Court of Appeals finds "material support for terrorism" is not a war crime ... Hicks' conviction likely to be quashed ... Bullied into a plea deal by the Bush and Howard governments in 2007 ... Soapy Brandis looking more than usually idiotic ... Miscarriage of justice
Friday
Jul112014
God's little helpers
Goings On ... • Friday, July 11, 2014 Sacrilege - Neil McPhee Room used for VicBar god bothering ... Fr Lucas splashes holy water on lawyers after being told to step down ... Peter Fox supporters point to adverse findings against commissioner ... Phillip Street divorce papers served
Friday
Jul112014
Landmark judgments
Court in the Act • Friday, July 11, 2014 Big Jim Byrne's litigation funding caper with a 25 percent commission ... Divorcee in unsuccessful struggle to unwind funding deal ... Roger Rogerson plays a starring role as a "mediator" ... Also, a tedious dispute about the cost of transcribing file notes ... "Bordering on the unseemly" ... Reports from courtside
tagged Hormones Harrison, Jim Byrnes, Roger Rogerson
Hormones Harrison, Jim Byrnes, Roger Rogerson Wednesday
Jul092014
Speculations from The Map
City Desk • Wednesday, July 9, 2014 It's Erich's say so ... Flags half-mast ... Who'll be Tasmania's new governor? ... Where to for Lieutenant Governor Mr Squiggle? ... Solicitor General's job goes begging ... What now for the Ellis appeal?