A retired judge’s knotted feelings … The fox prevails over the eagle … Lingering discomfort … Disclosure of sexual orientation a requirement for Pat Keane’s lecture … Constitutional mysteries unpacked on YouTube … Theodora reports   COMMENT: Poor Mr. Dean, appears to be much like the Facebook and other social media pundits who actually think that people are interested in what they are doing or have to say without asking, and ,sadly, the few who are.
Johnnie Given
Retired Junior Barrister of no significance.

Throttling the judiciary in Kiribati … Appeal decision in favour of Justice David Lambourne … Open ended term not unconstitutional … Judicial “coup” … “Fraud upon the court” … High Court judges suspended … Role of China … Riley Brown reports COMMENT: I encourage all to read the written outline of submissions relied upon by Mr Batra in the Court of Appeal.

Queensland’s silk wannabes … Rollicking dinner to venerate Her Maj … Wigging and gowning … Keeping the motley alive in the Solomon Islands … Unsatisfactory conduct charge thrown out against barrister who blew the whistle on harassing judge … Twitter tutorial for lawyers 

Lawyers of tomorrow … Malcolm Turnbull draws law student protest at his alma mater … Campus chaos  at University of Sydney … Students see in Turnbull what they’ll be when they grow up … The unbearable smugness of being … Max Shanahan reports from the front line  COMMENT: The fact the students are able to attend Sydney Uni usually denotes privilege and to sound off at poor Malcolm in such a manner shows considerable lack of appreciation of it. So much for freedom of expression. As the author perspicaciously notes, reverse Dorian Gray has prevailed (P.S. the novel is a classic).

Rolling police surveillance at Risdon Prison … Lawyers and other visitors illegally recorded for over two months … Case dropped against lawyer on charges of perverting the course of justice … Trouble at The Map 

Fresh waywardness from Circuit Court … Bankruptcy petition over blueberry pallet bills … Shortcomings in reasons … Failure to go behind the judgment debt … Was money actually owed to the creditor? … Back it goes for rehearing 

News from far corners … Western Australia and Tasmania … SC agitation … Finding the right appointment “process” … Displaced Circus Court judge pops up in Hobart … Outcry over fiddling with the law course at U Tas … Theodora on the parapet  COMMENT: Do you mean Steven Penglis SC?
http://fourthfloor.com.au/teams/steven-penglis/

Starting gun fired … Ticklish media baron sues independent news publisher … “Unindicted co-conspirator” in Trump’s crimes … No-one likes to be pushed around by a billionaire bully with an overblown sense of entitlement … News from The Defamatorium