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 >>
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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 >>
Court in the Act • Monday, July 12, 2021 Nye neighs loudly at Circus Court judgment that did not get to grips with the evidence ... Twigs assembled for a "forensic bird's nest" ... Blots on the judicial escutcheon ... AAT's incompetence ... Eight years later application remains unresolved ... Justice Charlesworth finds more jurisdictional error in the case of an Iranian conscientious objector
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 8, 2021 Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view
The Map • Monday, July 5, 2021 Former Apple Isle DPP denounces plan to increase the retirement age of judges ... Slings and arrows aimed at the chief justice ... A more youthful and reformist bench is required ... Judges should be refreshed ... Graphs and charts ... Studies on age and mental deterioration ... Tim Ellis puts the case for ageism
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, July 5, 2021 Supreme Court wraps up its latest term with some notable shockers ... Another stick of gelignite to blow up the Voting Rights Act ... Secrecy for rich donors to political causes ... But freedom for profane speech ... Department of Justice going slow on prosecuting Capitol insurrectionists ... War criminal and former defence secretary dead at 88 ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Hellfire Club • Wednesday, June 30, 2021 The Bureau de Spank's decision not to spank a barrister over his nasty sexist piggery has caused ructions up-and-down the Street of Shame ... Attack on female barristers' clerk ... EFA, A and H ... All OK because the brief has reflected on his conduct ... Frame by frame analysis ... Name suppressed to protect offender from further harm ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Polly Peck • Friday, June 25, 2021 Porter hanging-on in Cabinet amid rising stench ... Publication of painful dossier compiled by alleged victim of rape ... More unattractive character details about the former attorney general ... No inquiry into whether he is fit and proper to remain in government ... Murdoch hack wants inquiry into the ABC ... Polly Peck reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The post WW11 tribunal that tried the Japanese leadership ... Inventing crimes after the event ... Eleven judges wrestle with the complexities over three years ... Egos muddled with legal principles ... Creating law to fit extraordinary circumstances ... Miss Lumière reviews the Netflix mini-series on Japanese war crimes