How to make (more) gravy

PROCRUSTES    Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Class actions … Missing wages for Aboriginal stockmen … Mortimer CJ takes the reins as Murphy J faces retirement … Massive scoops of money for Shine and LLS … Dribbles for the class members … Poorly aimed attack by Values and Deportment Mistress … Procrustes to the rescue

 

Schmoozing and betrayal

Court in the Act    Monday, August 11, 2025

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

 

Time’s up for Naughty Nathan

Hellfire Club    Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled … Misuse of online funding campaigns … Spraying ripe and abusive language … Trolling Robert Beech-Jones … So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation … Anthony Kanaan reports

 

Wither the Republic

Roger Fitch Esq    Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Twenty years of Roger Fitch … He says this is his last column from Washington … A brief history of American law and governance since Bush II … The Roberts’ court and reshaping the Constitution … Hollowing out the Bill of Rights … Murdoch’s malign influence … Shakedowns and bribes

 

Star gazing

PROCRUSTES    Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Mentally disordered visa applicant … Treatment by Commonwealth functionaries … Taking responsibility personally … Cancellation … Revocation … Procrustes reports from the gutter

 

Postcard from London

London Calling    Thursday, July 31, 2025

Summertime – And the living’ is easy … Votes for 16-year olds … Paralegal’s theft by pen … Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force … Super-injunction comes out of the shadows … Feed them strawberries and cream … Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty

 

To have and to hold

City Desk    Thursday, July 31, 2025

Holding judicial office … When does it take effect? … Letter of appointment … Blood oath … Upper Tribunal appointment in the Old Dart … Former Labor politician underwater in salary gambit … From FCA roundsman Phil Cake

 

Upstairs. Downstairs

Court in the Act    Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Birchings for Circus Court judge … Real estate drama … Tenancy nightmare … Adjournment application … Need to look after elderly dogs … Federal Court rides to the rescue. Plus … Court weighs visa applicant’s claim to be gay … Appeal lottery … Ginger Snatch reports courtside