Doom … Silver Tray gets the sack and a basket of fruit … The latest victim of a dreadful curse that blights the life of those who cross swords with Justinian
Sayonara Timbo
Uncategorized Wednesday, July 8, 2015Tim 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, 2015QC 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, 2015Uncle 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, 2015Bluto 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, 2015Judge 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, 2015Senior 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, 2015Pressure 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