Dropping a line … Fishing expeditions … Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights … New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs … Anthropologists form a queue … Procrustes files
Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle
AROUND THE FIRMS Friday, March 22, 2024Rising bills in solicitor’s uphappy wrestle with large law shop … The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley … Application “doomed to failure” … Heresy … Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Slumbering snails
Judges Friday, March 15, 2024Judges and their delays … Agonising cogitations … Trials derailed … Start again … Dreamers awake … Award time for the coveted Golden Snail
Solicitor’s swan song sounds in contempt
Hellfire Club Wednesday, March 13, 2024Trading without a ticket … Manager appointed … Obstruction and hinderance … “Medical issues” … Contempt … One month’s prison – suspended … Not sorry … Anthony-James Kanaan reporting
Yarraside – fresh agitation
Yarraside Yarns Tuesday, March 12, 2024Skirmish over how to spend $600,000 of barristers’ money sitting in Victorian CJ’s piggybank … Tightwads are opposed to the Owen Dixon Memorial Childcare Centre … Alarming problem if nippers are located where criminals are visiting their briefs … Woke Wars … Peach Melba reports
University turns tail on Drumgold
City Desk Tuesday, March 12, 2024University of Canberra wilts in the heat … Drumgold’s academic appointment cancelled … Unrelenting and biased media attacks … Lily-livered university administrators … From the newsletter 500 Words, or thereabouts
Dangerous concoctions
Court in the Act Monday, March 11, 2024Fabricated cases cited to show instances where MinterEllison lawyers had been restrained from appearing … AI possibly responsible … Litigant fails in bid to block Minters and counsel from acting in long-running employment law battle … Embellished misconduct claims … Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Sofronoff scuppered
City Desk Monday, March 11, 2024A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head … Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold … From The Saturday Paper … By Richard Ackland