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 >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
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 >>
Bigotry Bulletin • Thursday, March 12, 2020 The attorney general's draft religious discrimination legislation ... A patchwork of contradictory provisions ... Stealing one person's protections for the benefit of others ... Mess of pottage ... Shield and sword ... Statements of religious belief ... Vilification ... Who says Christians are persecuted? ... Nathan Twibill picks through the morass
Court in the Act • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Pell v The Queen ... Cardinal's High Court appeal ... Written submissions weighed by Alan Zheng ... Pell says the jury's verdict was unreasonable ... Factual inconsistencies ... Alibi evidence ... Parting of the robes ... Onus and standard of proof ... Crown says the threshold for overturning a jury verdict is high ... Limited role for appeal judges
Procrustes • Friday, March 6, 2020 Misguided furore from the Murdocracy over the High Court's decision in the Aboriginal "aliens" case ... The court had been down the "birth" track before - in 1908 ... "Belonging" that is so strong that it can't be removed ... Special legislation to ring-fence Indigenous intrusion into mining and other "developments" ... Sprorts and discretionary handouts ... Plus ça change ... Paws stuck in the honey jar ... Procrustes at large
Roger Fitch Esq • Friday, March 6, 2020 Trump running wild following the burlesque of his impeachment trial ... Retribution underway ... Regulatory bodies left inoperable ... Judges attacked ... Corruption rife - and no consequences ... Presidential pardons ... Political meddling in Roger Stone's trial ... SCOTUS to decide discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs ... A Supreme Court for the rich ... Roger Fitch on the case
Court in the Act • Thursday, March 5, 2020 The whacky world of "Sovereign Citizens" ... Conspiracy theorists and God's chosen few join forces to challenge authority ... Principles and precedents defenestrated as the Constitution and the common law get a psychedelic varnish ... Judges in the "trustee position" ... Alan Zheng investigates
Environment • Tuesday, March 3, 2020 UK Court of Appeal decision to block third runway at Heathrow ... Failure to take account of Paris Accord commitments ... Is the climate enthusiasm premature? ... Planning requirements foremost ... Paris Accord and domestic policy ... Implications for Australia ... Emissions and the "public interest" ... Nathan Twibill comments
On The Couch • Friday, February 28, 2020 On The Couch with Jacko ... Failure to sing God Save the King ... Winning cases that should be won ... The role of money ... Military inclinations ... Changing role of the High Court ... Wither the bar? ... And more
Wendler on Wine • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Hazel Murphy - marketing marvel for Australian wine in the UK and Europe ... Obit from Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler ... Bron Waugh became a believer ... "Chateau Chunder" rendered obsolete
Top End trauma
Conduct unbecoming ... Judicial officer who is a repeat offender ... Internal investigations ... Counselling .. No evident improvement in behaviour ... "Lapses in demeanour" ... Home spun NT Judicial Commission ... From John Lawrence SC in Darwin
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