Movements at The Map

Uncategorized    Friday, January 29, 2016

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, 2016

Duplication 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, 2015

In 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, 2015

Vic 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, 2015

NSW 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, 2015

ICAC … 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, 2015

Maurice 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, 2015

Law 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