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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Bar Talk • Thursday, November 8, 2012
Updated on Friday, November 9, 2012 by
Justinian
Sydney and Melbourne bars go to the polls ... Same old candidates turn-up for re-election … Wall of men … Women fighting to be counted
City Desk • Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Tribunal justice ... Special skills needed for new Bureau de Spank in NSW ... People who have been spanked are ideally placed to spank others ... A profusion of sore bottoms ... NCAT and the great tribunal aggregation ... Steering committee to be steered by reference group
Disciplinary tribunals, NCAT Tulkinghorn • Monday, November 5, 2012 Tulkinghorn on competing civil litigation regimes ... The obstacle course regime involves truth-obscuring complexity and requires lots of money ... The shallow pockets version offers tribunals that seek to skip complexity ... The more obstacles, the more lawyers are "worth"
Complexity, Litigation Barry Lane • Monday, November 5, 2012 Catholic Church's long history of abuse by priests ... Cover-up ... Parliamentary investigation ... The Three Ds ... Running the rabbit ... The whitewash of "independent" investigations ... Vic Police uncover "shocking" figures ... Barry Lane files
Catholic Church, Child sex offences Artemus Jones • Saturday, November 3, 2012 No sooner had he stepped down from the High Court than Bill Gummow is on the lecture circuit ... Artemus Jones was on hand at the Queensland Banco Court to soak-up the vibe ... The end of empire
Australian Constitution, Bill Gummow Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, November 2, 2012 New term for US Supremes ... Certiorari petitions ... Critical mass theory of constitutional change ... Presidential election and the court ... Judicial techniques ... Conspiracy as a war crime ... The CIA agent who didn't torture winds-up in jail ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Experienced NSW criminal barrister caught in property development catastrophe … Misleading evidence to Dizzo proceedings brought to retrieve money … Professional misconduct … More despair from the Bureau de Spank
Hellfire Club • Saturday, October 27, 2012 Former partner in over his head with house purchase and renovations ... False rental expense claims in tax returns ... Defrauding the Commonwealth ... Bankruptcy, jail, struck off ... General ruination
Clayton Utz, George Livanes, Tax Hellfire Club • Friday, October 26, 2012 VCAT mucks-up determination of penalty for bankrupt Melbourne barrister who got into bother with his tax ... The extent to which the purchase of "small luxuries" is relevant ... How deep does one's head have to be in the sand ... Twilight years at the bar ... The role of "sympathy" in dishing out a penalty ... Other vexing questions
Barristers tax, Fit & Proper, VCAT Procrustes • Wednesday, October 24, 2012 For an historical trip into a real war look no further than D.S. Bird's Nazi Dreamtime, the story of Australia's very own home-cooked and very cookie Nazis from the 1930s ... Aborigines as "Black Aryans" and other peculiarities ... Procrustes ... Book review
City Desk • Friday, October 19, 2012 Last shout ... Undercurrents at Vic Grill ... Money the root of all trouble ... Mrs K comes up with $4.5 million ... Christmas prezzie for creditors
Russell Keddie, Sarah Key, Victorian Bar Goings On ... • Wednesday, October 17, 2012 UPDATE ... Moaning judges flee MONA family law dinner dance … Tussle for the top Supreme Court post in Van Diemen's Land … Putting a shine on SCs … Female barristers decaying less quickly than males … Pulp fiction's playthings
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Cases piling up against Voyager victims' lawyer ... Aged mariners hope the funds are not entirely exhausted ... Solicitor parries for more delay
David Forster, HMAS Voyager, Striking off Bar Talk • Friday, October 12, 2012 Sydney silk in fees stoush with Brisbane law shop ... Court of Appeal refuses to strike out solicitors' defence and cross-claim ... Allegation of overcharging ... Ballooning estimates
Barristers' fees, Christopher Branson QC, Costs City Desk • Wednesday, October 10, 2012 It's foggy in Barakat-Land ... Is that a Le Wrap? ... Settlement likely with Mrs K ... Hiding assets in clumsy deceits on creditors is something up with which the Law Society should not put
Russell Keddie, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Judges • Friday, October 5, 2012 Quaint ceremony to say farewell to Bill (The Barometer) Gummow … Slight interruption to the special leave applications … Hutley you're now number three in the list
High Court, William Gummow Artemus Jones • Friday, October 5, 2012 Observations on Alan Jones ... Artemus Jones (no relation) on the shoddy quality of public discourse ... Blame social media, where everyone is a publisher and can let fly with half-baked comments ... Free speech quandry
Alan Jones, Public debate, Social media Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, October 2, 2012 After 10 years at Guantánamo Omar Khadr is transferred to prison in Canada ... Convicted of a war crime for lawful actions against an opposing uniformed soldier in a war ... Perversion of the law of war ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Guantanamo, Law of war, Omar Khadr Bar Talk • Friday, September 28, 2012 Exclusive ... Comments received from members on the NSW bar's draft strategic plan ... Groping for a view of the future ... Great struggles with solicitors ... Fee recovery strategies ... Commitment to diversity ... What do barristers have to offer? ... Marketing and more bang for bucks ... Creating an identity ... Better diets ... Access to legal information ... Massive work ahead for the bar association to become relevant
NSW Bar Association, The future Court in the Act • Friday, September 28, 2012 Litigation marathon … Brunswick lawyer out of time for umpteenth review of costs assessment … Ballooning costs for small time motor repair case … More from the Katzenjammer Kids … Has the spillage of ink been quelled?