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 >>
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Notorious RBG ... Heather Mitchell at her finest ... Review by Braham Dabscheck
Judges • Thursday, August 25, 2022 Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the Taliban
Judicial independence Miss Lumière • Sunday, August 14, 2022 Sexual assault and the law ... Rape (alleged) by a member of chambers ... Suzie Miller's play brought to the screen ... Jodie Comer is chilling - and thrilling ... Scorching indictment of the law .... Miss Lumière at the National Theatre (Live)
Criminal law, Film review, Sexual offences Court in the Act • Friday, July 29, 2022 Remote vs in-the-flesh hearings … Split bench of Allsop, Bell, and Ferguson CJs… Less Q & A … More flexibility … Less humanity … More efficiency … Judicial hits on YouTube … Coat of arms not just a piece of artwork …Winds of conservatism blow briskly through the legal world … Margery Ai reports
City Desk • Thursday, July 14, 2022 Q & A about Julian Assange with Greg Barns SC, adviser to the Australian Assange Campaign ... Charges ... Journalism ... Espionage Act ... First Amendment ... Extradition decision and the prospects of appeal ... Flight risk ... More from Wikileaks
Greg Barns, Julian Assange On the Couch • Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Stephen Charles AO QC, one of the well-known advocates for a national integrity commission, is on Justinian's Couch ... Career highlights ... Personal weaknesses ... Australia's failing on asylum seekers and refugees ... John Howard's overrated standing ... Would be happy as a teacher
Stephen Charles AO QC Friday, April 8, 2022 Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken suspicion based on citizenship status ... Migration Act ... Background, arguments and implications ...Difficult challenge for the High Court ... Codey Swadling reports
Miss Lumière • Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Bosnian war crimes ... The Srebrenica massacre ... The fruitless struggle to save a family ... Failure of the United Nations and NATO ... Europe's worst bloodshed since WW11 ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Critics Corner Tuesday, November 30, 2021 The arc of life ... A memoir from the former inaugural Commonwealth DPP ... The foundation ICAC commissioner ... Momentous decisions ... Searing fallouts ... C.N. Brown reviews With Conviction
I Once Met ... • Tuesday, November 16, 2021 The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975