The law and its miracles … Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld … Justice Jenni Hill’s brother … More entries for the Golden Tortoise award … Federal Court muddles the maths, again … Theodora reports …
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The End Of The Affair … Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes … Read on >>
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Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... ... Stephen Murray thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Commissioner of Police v Joshua Lees ... Justice Belinda Rigg's Palestinian Action Group decision has now been posted ... Over 100,000 cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday ... Confusing police alerts during the march gave the impression there was an unsuccessful attempt by the cops to derail the protest ... ... Read more >>
Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
"I've stopped six wars in the last - I'm averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan, and a lot of them. Congo was just and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I won't go into it very much, because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. They've been fighting for 500 years, intermittently, and we solved that war. You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it ..." President Donald Trump at a meeting in Scotland with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer ... July 28, 2025 ... Read more >>
Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... Read more >>
Abolish Silks ... Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002 ... Read more >>
Mystery of the kiddie court tours … School students’ exposure to dangerous notions … Trump-loving academic’s batty predictions … Magic Circle’s fee spree … Toast of the town … Theodora reports COMMENT: The marmalade ought to be added to Charles Barrington's Big Book of Spreads and Conserves.
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Disciplinary apparatus found wanting … Law Society in Phillip Street goes down three times in one week … Lawyers off the hook at the Bureau de Spank … Janek Drevikovsky reports
Clarification on bestiality, Apple Isle style … A “specie” of buggery … Penetration essential … And, no opportunity for defence counsel to make submissions on sentencing … Finding of apprehended bias against Supreme Court judge … Janek Drevikovsky has news from The Map
No harm from emotional domestic flare-up … Life in the suburbs … Too much pineapple juice … Queensland Madge hauled over the coals … Miscarriage of justice … Apprehended bias … (No. It’s not Sal Vasta) … Threats to solicitor … New trial … Start again … Michael Baker reports
As pressure mounts out of the hat jumps draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission … Peculiar structure based on flawed reasons … Porter’s politician protection racket … Drinking News Corp’s Kool-Aid … Janek Drevikovsky reports
Taxation and the latest addition to the High & Mighty … Trials and tribulations of tax minimisers … Foreigners in Paris … Mistreatment of multinationals and the “rule of law” … Janek Drevikovsky reports on what Simon says
High Court appointments … Endorsements and disappointments … What now for the Last Chance Saloon? … Justices Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson … Background to selections … Politics and the process … Where’s the excellence? … Knock on Wood … Beach beached … Associate of judges, Ginger Snatch, reports COMMENT: URL: Gleeson J has delivered plenty of notable judgments, the most recent being Crowley v Worley Ltd [2020] FCA 1522. COMMENT: The doctor's wife comparison is uncool in 2020, even in a satirical context. Plenty of equally biting but wittier and more contemporary comparisons out there.
New procedures to deal with groping grievances … Outcry at the WA bar over the president’s ham-fisted message on sexual harassment … Female barristers incandescent … CJ drawn into the fracas … History of sex-pest judges in Perth … Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations … Grievance stewards … Janek Drevikovsky reports