Did Justice Lee get it wrong?

Comment    Tuesday, May 7, 2024

More on the omnishambles … Holes in Justice Lee’s Lehrmann findings on truth … Natural and ordinary meaning of the word “rape” … Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer … Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points

 

Dark and Stormy times in the US of A

Roger Fitch Esq    Tuesday, May 7, 2024

The MAGA Supreme Court … Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity … A reconfigured Constitution … Trump’s intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case … Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case … Roger Fitch’s Letter from Washington

 

Around town

Goings On ..., Theodora    Thursday, May 2, 2024

Punctuation advice from Vic’s bar … Feds throw the book at library marriage … Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation … Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime … Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil … Hands up for silk in Aotearoa … Theodora’s latest rounds

 

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Bar Talk    Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Hack attack on barrister … Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots … No support from chambers … Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities … Latest cancellations … Free speech in a spin … From our Editorial Board

 

Great contributions to litigation

Obit    Friday, April 26, 2024

Tribute to the hopeless litigant … Vito, vitare, vitavi, vitatus … Vexatious fighter moves to another jurisdiction … Trail of exasperation and failure … End of a headache … From our Ringside Reporter

 

Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank

Bar Talk    Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Perth big shot … Professional misconduct … Disclosure of privileged information … Guardianship proceedings … Breach of orders … Conscious disregard of the law … Consideration of recklessness … Breach of Harman obligation … Anthony Kanaan reports

 

Judges on the tear

Judges    Friday, April 19, 2024

Priceless … District Court chief judge takes a bow on the way out … Leading lights of the law clamouring for bottles of Chateau d’ Price … Justice David Hammerschlag goes to the movies … New release out now … Theodora does the rounds

 

An omnibus of quotes

Judges    Thursday, April 18, 2024

Justice Lee and his Thesaurus … Referencing the references … Context and history … The underlying warp and weft … Words and meaning … Byways of language … Associate of judges Miss Ginger Snatch reports