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 >>
Polly Peck • Friday, June 5, 2020 Latest spying update ... Legislation for International Production Orders ... Spooks picking through your data held on foreign servers ... Bad news for public interest and human rights organisations, not to mention reptiles of the media and their sources ... Coalition cronies on the AAT can sign off IPOs ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on the wider scope for Washington's regime of global spying
Procrustes • Friday, June 5, 2020 Historian Jenny Hocking bursts into Kerr's secret locker ... High Court gives her the key ... The Archives Act and Commonwealth records ... David Szmitkowski's arrangement with the Archives ... Side agreement with the Palace ... Failed attempt to make agreements outside the terms of the legislation ... Office holders as trustees of the public ... Procrustes explains the latest big decision from the High & Mighty
Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Vic Appeals says that "infelicitous" remarks from the trial judge were not unfair ... Trial judge is "not trying to be unhelpful", yet undermines defence counsel ... Murder case where the jury sees the judge poo-poo the defence ... Failure to be circumspect ... Summing-up miscarries the entire show ... Court orders another round ... Ginger Snatch reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, May 29, 2020 Miss Lumière's guide to eight of the best and two of the worst on a screen near you ... The not-so idiot box ... Documentaries, drama, politics, sex ... From Lee Miller to Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein ... The human experience in its many shades
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 28, 2020 The month of May brings out the best of the bench ... Shifty agency running the NDIS scheme ... Breakthrough ... The Full Feds say that a sex worker/therapist should be funded for a woman with a serious disability ... In NSW the CA makes adoption orders affecting a young Aboriginal woman ... Justice Leeming writes to her directly ... From judges' associate, Ginger Snatch
Court in the Act • Monday, May 25, 2020 What has been the fate of open justice during a time of closed courts? ... Remote access for reporters ... Technical issues ... Costumes and clothes ... Freezing video links ... Wrong names ... Twiddling of thumbs ... Smooth operators at the Fed ... Nail bars, beauty salons and courts slowly open their doors, yet e-justice is here to stay ... Janek Drevikovsky explores
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 20, 2020 SCOTUS tussle over congressional subpoenas for Trump's financial records ... Presidential immunity rejected in Nixon and Clinton cases ... Republicans want a compliant Supreme Court ... Yet, POTUS not doing well in the lower courts ... Attorney General's political manipulation of the judiciary ... Alarms and diversions for the election... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Court in the Act • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 A city in semi-lockdown grieves for big swinging solicitor ... Costs battle against former client goes down the gurgler ... Conflict of interest ... Work under retainer adverse to clients interests ... Unsanitisable activities ... Solicitors expected to honour their word ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Striking off ... Francis Burt alumnus sent packing ... Murder and defamation trials followed by disciplinary proceedings ... A gruelling 13-year grind through the courts ... The final lap uncontested ... Wife illegally recorded ... No legal professional privilege ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Janek Drevikovsky explains