Solicitor acts without instructions from the donor of an power of attorney … Dodgy mortgage – Melbourne law shop nailed for negligent advice over contest about freezing orders … No immunity – Derailed Melbourne brief … More Sandbach – Anthony Kanaan reports
The Silken Octopus
Goings On ..., Theodora Saturday, June 28, 2025Bar groper spanked … Christmas comes but once a year … Grovel and fine … Alan Blow saddles up in Darwin … Big croc wrangler case … Egg collection scrambled … Strange suppression order … From our Local Field Agents
Delay update
Court in the Act Thursday, June 26, 2025“Extraordinary and excessive” delay – by the litigants … Contest on costs … Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time … What is a “worker”? … What is an “injury”? … Justice Jenni frigging around … Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer … From judges’ associate Ginger Snatch
Fresh upsets
Court in the Act Tuesday, June 24, 2025Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge … Unwarranted correspondence slapped down … Failure to reply to email from judge’s chambers … Impertinence … ART Deputy President birched … Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege … Ginger Snatch reports
From the cutting-room floor
City Desk Tuesday, June 24, 2025Handsy Heydon goes to Perth … Celebrity tour … Conferenceville … Dicey’s job application speech from 2002 … Other High Court judges mocked as “vegetables” … Mason CJ ridiculed … Speech bowdlerised for public consumption … Courage of conviction MIA … From our National Affairs Correspondent
Sia in the counting house
Court in the Act Tuesday, June 24, 2025Damn statistics … Federal Court mandarins inability to count … Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services … Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates … Transparency … From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake
Bar baa
Bar Talk Tuesday, June 24, 2025WA barristers in certificate renewal snarl … Website hacked … Law Society and Legal Practice Board in standoff … Threat of personal details emerging … More lebensraum for bar management in Sydney and Brisbane … Waspish correspondence … Indemnity insurance premiums blow out
Annihilation of the now
Roger Fitch Esq Monday, June 16, 2025Trump’s campaign of destruction … Fake emergencies … Pointless and farcical executive orders … Gangsterism … Looting … Corruption … Shakedowns … White rage … Christian nationalism … Roger Fitch unloads