Ongoing drama at the Cauldron

Uncategorized    Sunday, May 10, 2015

No apprehension here … Queensland chief justice too biased to know he’s biased … No alternative but to withdraw from Cowan appeal … Emails and memoranda show extent of judicial fracture … CJ unable to produce important judgment … Bluto in strife, again 

 

A cry of pain from Parramatta

Uncategorized    Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Judge says Federal Circuit Court is overburdened … Important cases concerning the welfare of children are delayed for years … Case loads of the judges are two to three times what they should be … Matters are over-listed by up to 400 percent … Emilie Lentz reports 

 


News from the Wardroom

Uncategorized    Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Former Adelaide footlights performer steps-up to new role as President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association … Alex Ward also embroiled in history of the Australian Military Court … Kevin Childs on the case 

 

QE11 cauldron on the boil

Uncategorized    Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Application for Qld CJ to recuse himself for apprehended bias in Daniel Morecombe murder appeal … Close association with Braveheart’s campaigner … “Administrative error” by CJ results in court of appeal being misled … Carmody intercedes on behalf of a former client 

 


Solicitors caught in costs storm

Uncategorized    Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Supremes in Victoria and NSW make costs orders against solicitors for their misconduct in litigation … Costly time for Joseph Guss and Shane Neagle … “My Dad’s a solicitor and he always wins” … Watershed moments … Inappropriate and scandalous material … False allegations … Referral to the Law Society … Emilie Lentz reports 

 

Roll call

Uncategorized    Sunday, April 19, 2015

Canberra man with alcohol struggle admitted to the jam roll with conditions attached … Concern that delay in his admission would adversely affect him financially … Justice Betty King lets fly at Victorian authorities for dragging the chain in the case of a Ponzi fraudster … Victims left in the cold … Emilie Lentz reports