Sayonara Timbo

Uncategorized    Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Tim Carmody passes into the sunset … Not even the hacks at The Bowen Hills Bugle could save him … The folly of an overtly political judicial appointment … Who’s next for CJ? 

 

Superior legal creatures

Uncategorized    Monday, July 6, 2015

QC or not to QC … That is the question before former Yarraside judge Murray Kellam … The findings are unlikely to surprise … Most want to keep the sacred trinket … However, some call for the scrapping of the entire silk system 

 

News from The Map

Uncategorized    Friday, July 3, 2015

Uncle Erich’s back … Souvenir clocks and watches flood the Hobart legal market … Legal aid gets a bollicking while the former director picks up a gong 

 

The Sepp Blatter of the Qld Supremes

Uncategorized    Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Bluto back in the saddle … Did Lord Eldon miss an earlier authority which derailed his constitutional challenge?  …. Marmalade by appointment to Sir Anthony Mason … AG’s Freedom From Information strikes again 

 

Struggle Street

Uncategorized    Saturday, June 27, 2015

Judge Sandy Street is belted around the field by the Full Federal Court in two important appeals that rejected his judicial method … Judge called upon to slow down the rate of knocking-out migration and refugee cases at the first court date … Federal Circuit Court swamped … Ginger Snatch reports courtside 

 

“Where’s the hook?”

Uncategorized    Monday, June 15, 2015

Senior NT lawyers seek disqualification of judge for apprehended bias … Costs case flowing from judicial review of politically charged findings by commission of inquiry … Email reveals that judge’s wife was privy to strategy and opinions of one side in challenge to commissioner’s findings, which were heard and determined by her husband 

 

Merciless executioner of the migration list

Uncategorized    Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Pressure at the Federal Circuit Court sees judge gallivanting through migration and refugee cases at breakneck speed … Briefs are revolting … Masses of judgments delivered ex tempore in favour of the immigration minister … Appeals and recusal applications