Letter from Sal
Judges • Thursday, March 7, 2019 Hello Everyone ... Sal Vasta writes to the judges of the FCC ... Two Wigs Willy is back ... Sal steps down as acting chief judge ... Sense of duty and service ... Court in a sorry state, but don't despair ... Work ethic of the Full Family Court ... "Bombardment" of criticism, some of it gratuitous ... Darkest of times ... Sal slowing down
AAT selections with Liberal gold star ratings
Polly Peck • Friday, March 1, 2019 Appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ... System of preferment and patronage ... The Christian Porter's stack is the most audacious in living memory ... Merit missing in action ... Party hacks come home to roost ... Where's Tubby Callinan's report? ... Janek Drevikovsky goes through the list, name by name
Sal sitting on the sorry stool
Court in the Act • Thursday, February 28, 2019 Senior judges concerned over suggestion that Judge Vasta of the Circuit Court would be promoted to sit in the Family Court ... Concerns may have prompted early circulation of appeal judgments all highly critical of Vasta's judgments ... To cap it off, Sal is now a defendant in a Queensland defamation case
Wrestling with the rudeness rule
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, February 26, 2019 The long-running rude letters case ... Calling another solicitor "fundamentally dishonest" ... Is this a breach of professional standards? ... Has the exquisite finery of the legal profession been sullied? ... Judges are having trouble making up their minds ... Is the rule against rudeness a threat to free speech? ... Everyone hoped Yarraside appeals had the last word ... Now a special leave application looms ... Janek Drevikovsky follows the long and winding trail
Too much mush
Critics Corner • Friday, February 22, 2019 James Baldwin doused in a layer of syrup ... US justice ... Where's Atticus Finch when you need him? ... Black lives, white injustice ... Love, politics and melodrama ... Miss Lumière reviews If Beale Street Could Talk
Salutary lesson
Court in the Act • Thursday, February 21, 2019 UPDATE ... Porter wants Vasta for the Family Court ... Standby as more critical judgments about Sal are in the appeal pipeline ... Two-Wigs' special envoy for case management has trouble managing his own cases ... Not only Stradford & Stradford, now there's Navarro & Navarro ... The terrible legacy of Soapy Brandis
Another dismissal
Procrustes • Monday, February 11, 2019 Full Federal Court ... Maddening majority thinking in the Palace Letters appeal ... Kerr's billet-doux to the Queen about sacking the Whitlam government ... Correspondence deemed to be "private" and none of your business ... Archives Act ... Procrustes deconstructs the Full Fed's flaws