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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Groper • Thursday, October 15, 2020 Girt by sea ... Latest from the west ... Murder-suicide and the family court "system" ... Non-reappointment for the anti-corruption commissioner ... Christian's virtues ... Mr Palmer ... Scotty from Marketing ... And others ... Sandgroper's letter from Perth
Western Australia Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, October 9, 2020 Streaming now ... Based on the former FBI director's book ... An insight into America's trauma ... A president hell-bent on suborning the bureau to his will ... A mafioso in the White House ... Hillary's emails and the 2016 election ... The Russia investigation ... Everyone is compromised ... Miss Lumière dips her toe into the swamp
Court in the Act • Friday, October 2, 2020 Requiem for a company ... Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full
Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Questioning a dodgy invoice ... Corruption unravelled at the heart of Norwegian politics, law and the media ... Miss Lumière watches and reviews the eight part SBS series Heksejakt (Witch Hunt) ... Inspired by events in the real world ... Whistleblowing at its most courageous
On the Couch • Thursday, September 10, 2020 Meet the new CEO of the Law Society of NSW ... The first woman and the first Indigenous Australian to run the largest legal profession organisation in the country ... Long experience in public service and management ... Critical time for lawyers ... Constitutional change ... Uluru Statement from the Heart ... Family, Tim Tams, and a better Constitution ... Sonja Stewart is on Justinian's Couch
Law Society NSW, Sonja Stewart On the Couch • Thursday, September 3, 2020 President of the Judicial Conference of Australia speaks about the burning issues for the judiciary ... Attacks on judges ... Judicial selection ... The work of the JCA ... Her frustrations as a judge ... The benefits of a bar fridge on the back verandah ... Curried eggs on toast ... Justice Judith Kelly from the Northern Territory Supreme Court is on Justinian's Couch
Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, August 28, 2020 Novichok comes to England ... The story of Putin's hit men trying to take out a former double agent ... A dab on the door handle ... Lockdown and fear as police and health experts struggle to contain this most deadly of nerve agents ... Alexi Navalny the latest victim of state ordered poisoning ... Miss Lumière files from well behind the front line
Film review On the Couch • Thursday, August 20, 2020 The nun on the battlements for Bernard Collaery and Witness K ... Relentless organiser, protester, and campaigner ... East Timor's long struggle and the all too late engagement of Australia ... The "Act of No Choice" in West Papua ... Progressive politics and the Catholic Church ... Eggs, carrots and leftovers ... Devisor of cunning schemes ... Sister Susan Connelly is on Justinian's Couch
Bernard Collaery, Religion, Timor Leste, Witness K City Desk • Monday, August 17, 2020 Leading hacks at The Australian have waged war on Professor Jenny Hocking and her research into the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government by governor general Kerr ... The archived letters clearly confirm the Palace's involvement ... It is The Australian's version that is in need of repair ... Michael White dismantles the claims about Hocking's "conspiracy theory"
Jenny Hocking, The Australian, The Dismissal, The Palace