Disco Dave quits the Supremes so as to get more time on the dance floor … Local bookie gives odds for the field of possible replacements … Top family law man spanked by the bureau for muddling his dates … The Map of Tasmania
Synchronicity
Uncategorized Wednesday, January 27, 2016Duplication of judicial handiwork by the same judge in a separate judgment – without citation or acknowledgement … Trouble if a student did it … Judges are free to “phone it in” … Ginger Snatch reports
Mapping the Obeid case
Uncategorized Wednesday, December 23, 2015In and out of Eddie’s office … Secrets of the safe … Walking ATM out of service … Map of Tasmania – the sad case of Adrian Hall … NSW ODPP at conferenceville … Trying to digest the Robert Xie trial … Another round to Chris Dale
Wigging up … wigging down
Uncategorized Monday, December 21, 2015Vic County Court’s schedule of judicial wig preferences … Study it carefully … Yarraside bar’s female silk defence … Bluto up-to-speed when it comes to concurring with other’s reasons … Seasons greetings from the conveyancer general
Goody Two Shoes to the rescue
Uncategorized Saturday, December 19, 2015NSW law bulletin … The AG and the defenestrated Law Reform Commission … Getting Alan Cameron to breathe life into a comatose commission … Criminal trial disgrace in the Dizzo … CCA cranky about underfunded trial courts … Two-Shoes throws $20 million at the problem
Hyperventilation and hostility
Uncategorized Tuesday, December 15, 2015ICAC … Conflicts of interest … Journalists as players and recipients of leaks … Unsound assertions in Inspector Levine’s unsatisfactory report on the Cunneen case … It’s important that commissioner Megan Latham not yield in the face of tribal attacks COMMENT: It is indeed dangerous to "point out other people grammatical lapses". "Pleas keep a sense of proportion" about what is and is not important in this story. "Whom" is not the subject of either of the clauses you quote; it is the object of the prepositions "by" and "about".
It’s Christmas (Island)
Uncategorized Monday, December 14, 2015Maurice Blackburn wins the right to interview “entrusted people” with “protected information” for Christmas Island class action … Chink opens in punitive Border Force secrecy provisions … Jack Forrest to the rescue
Prison – the new normal
Uncategorized Thursday, December 3, 2015Law Council’s Indigenous imprisonment symposium … Cutting the incarceration rate … Growing concern amid the political inaction … Suggestions, policies, strategies … Where to start? … From Kate Lilly at Conferenceville