Fuel fights
Court in the Act • Sunday, August 4, 2019 The real world at variance with the claustrophobia of defamation proceedings ... Relevant facts missing from judge's reasons ... United Petroleum franchise distress ... Damages of $72,347.40 ... Default judgment entered and then court approves a warrant for the arrest of the missing respondent ... The missing backstory
The future - it's horrible
Theodora • Thursday, August 1, 2019 Future of Law and Innovation Conference struggled with the technology ... Plentiful lunch options ... AI ... Kirby adjudicated debate on "Uberisation" of lawyers ... How to use LinkedIn ... Space law ... Techno fonts ... Lawyerly prospects when technology fails ... Justice in the era of "late capitalism" ... Theodora reports
David Hunt remembered
Judges • Monday, July 29, 2019 Former NSW defamation judge and chief judge at common law dies at age 84 ... The List with Socratic case management ... Defamation exotica ... Refinement of pleadings, perhaps over-refinement ... Prodigious worker ... International criminal law ... UN criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda ... A league of his own ... Tributes from Graham Hryce, David Rolph, Justice Mark Ierace and Judge Judith Gibson
Boris in the bullrushes
Procrustes • Sunday, July 28, 2019 How Boris Johnson peddled falsehoods all the way to Number 10 ... Perverse denunciation of European Court of Justice ruling about third-party insurance for off-road vehicles ... Beats-ups from Telegraph columnist that appeal to little Englanders ... "Undemocratic law-making" in a post-truth era ... Vnuked by the facts ... Procrustes on the case
Mike Carlton
On The Couch • Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Veteran broadcaster, foreign correspondent, columnist and acidic Twitterer is on Justinian's Couch ... A masterful wordsmith ... Tireless combatant of the Murdocracy ... Issues with refrigeration and Christian piety ... The lure of the sea and its saltiness ... T.E.F. Hughes at the urinal ... Raging against the dying of the light