Another costly Lehrmann decision … One more spin on the never-never … Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism … Odious litigants … Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? … Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium
Vale Percy Allan AM
Obit Monday, October 28, 2024Obit for friend and fellow-traveller … Prolific writer on economics and politics … Public finance guru … Technocrat with humanity and broad interests … Theatre … Animals … Art
Bring me the head of Diego Garcia
PROCRUSTES Friday, October 18, 2024Chagossians and their lost homeland … British courts fail to deliver … Stolen rocks in the Indian Ocean … Common law’s inability to deal with state power … Enter the ICJ … Handover to Mauritius … Septics rule the waves … Ilois keep off … Procrustes on the perils of piracy
Balkan intrigues
Law & Justice Tuesday, October 15, 2024Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry … 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism … Miscarriage of justice under review … Serried ranks of lawyers before Acting Justice Hulme … Verballing … Loading-up … Old fashioned detective “work” … Evidence so far … Hamish McDonald reports
Where’s Dwight Eisenhower when you need him?
Roger Fitch Esq Tuesday, October 15, 2024Supreme Court’s new term … Judicial culture war … Motions for Trump’s immunity determinations … Cognitive decline on the election trail … Judges waiting to muddle the election results … Election countdown … Plans for a new Supreme Court … Our US legal correspondent Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Drumgold cleared
City Desk Monday, October 14, 2024SCOOP … Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council … Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct … Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons … Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian
All in good time …
Groper Thursday, October 10, 2024Fresh delays … Slow boats … Justice Jenni’s benchmark for lateness … Reynolds v Higgins – court says we can have a redacted affidavit but don’t publish it … Sandy Groper reports
Extra bread and dripping
Court in the Act Wednesday, October 9, 2024Costs breakthrough for migration lawyers who labour against the odds … Filing fees and professional costs ahoy … Full Federal Court overturns minister’s miserable approach to costs for successful applicants … Minister’s gilded team of briefs fail to move the Fulls