Secret corners of the law

City Desk    Friday, February 16, 2024

Lay associate … Back in the game …Serious criminal priors … Embarrassment … Law Society sits on its hands … Conditions attached … Identity suppressed … All is forgiven … Thank you ball-boys, thank you NCAT

 

Fujitsu jujitsu

PROCRUSTES    Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Procrustes skilfully connects his medical appointments, Robodebt and the British Post Office … Top class venting … Government by computer … Privatisation … Harassment by machines … Reports and warnings ignored … Death and destruction … Bullying bosses … Where’s Terry Carney when we need him?

 

From the bar table

Court in the Act    Monday, February 12, 2024

Yelling counsel … Heckling … Pointing and shouting … Minister goes off piste as a model litigant … Conduct unbecoming … From our courts roundsperson, Ginger Snatch

 

Cossack in orbit with Planet

Comment    Friday, February 2, 2024

Walter Sofronoff and Janet Albrechtsen … Lehrmann trial investigation … An alluring coupling … Sensitive information at play … Feeding select reptiles … Claims of prejudice and bias infecting the report … Where’s Brucie’s house? … Comment

 


Dodging bullets

PROCRUSTES    Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Idi Amin and Roger Rogerson – brothers-in-law … Procrustes draws an analogy … Cultivating psychopaths and ignoring the consequences … How Rogerson spun stories to gullible hacks … The killer cop with a lisp

 

A not so dry January

London Calling    Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Floyd Alexander-Hunt’s Letter from London … The lawyer-juror who searched the internet for answers … 15-months is seen as a serious delay for judgment delivery … Large-scale miscarriage of justice in fake fraud allegations … The delivery driver who acted as an agent for panel beaters

 

The Disunited States of America

Roger Fitch Esq    Monday, January 29, 2024

The cowboys of Texas … Asserting control over immigration … Operation Lone Star … Confederate theory of secession is alive and kicking … Usurping federal powers … Trump judges to the rescue … Wild defence claims in election conspiracy case … Roger Fitch reports from Washington