Memory and its failures … Remembering to forget things … Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing … Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges … An experienced judge writes … Justinian’s Archive, November 12, 2004
Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle
Friday, March 22, 2024Rising bills in solicitor’s uphappy wrestle with large law shop … The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley … Another round … Application “doomed to fail” … Heresy … Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Unhappy day for Allens
Archive Friday, March 22, 2024The messy carve-up of James Hardie Industries … “Fully funded” asbestos liabilities … Cancelling the partly paid shares … Breach of duty to judge … David Jackson’s findings … From Justinian’s Archive, September 21, 2004
Hatred, ridicule and contempt
Friday, March 22, 2024Defamatorium … The libel scene back then … Marsden to the rescue … All fires are suspicious, until they’re not … Jury breakthrough on the defamatory meaning of “homosexual” … From Justinian’s Archive, November 11, 2003
Getting them off
Friday, March 22, 2024Ethics and misleading the court … Representing the guilty … Moral standards … Whatever it takes … From columnist Evan Whitton … Justinian’s Archive, September 22, 2004
Thought police
Theodora Tuesday, November 21, 2023Press freedom … Front cover drama at Law Council organ … Pauline Hanson and the KKK … Big shots in San Francisco hauled into crisis session … Secret recording … Pig Iron Bob to the rescue … From Theodora … Justinian’s Archive, September 1997
Thought police
Tuesday, November 21, 2023Press freedom … Front cover drama at Law Council organ … Pauline Hanson and the KKK … Big shots in San Francisco hauled into crisis session … Secret recording … Pig Iron Bob to the rescue … From Theodora … Justinian’s Archive, September 1997
Lord Archer – ducking and weaving
Deja Vu Wednesday, September 27, 2023Defrocked barrister faced “iciness” at the ADT … Double helpings of bias … Tribunal can’t help making adverse decisions about the former brief … Fair minded citizens on the Emu Plains omnibus … From Justinian’s Archive, November 11, 2004