WA 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
Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart’s Bleak House
Bar Talk Tuesday, April 22, 2025Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs … Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation … Allegations of fraud against the family trust …Manoeuvring … Tax “advice” … Shifting vesting date … Money, the root of unhappiness … Anthony-James Kanaan reports
Roll call for silk
Bar Talk Wednesday, August 28, 2024109 NSW barristers have their hands up for silken acknowledgement … Bar’s secret list for 2024 unmasked … Stampede to exit the junior bar … Finery … Embroidery … The annual Silk Bazaar … Scoop
Fit, Proper & Bonkers
Bar Talk Thursday, May 16, 2024Bipolar diagnosis … Character passes muster … Sexual harassment … Professional misconduct … Barrister’s sexual harassment … Offending the product of bipolar affliction … Pills and potions … Next round
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Bar Talk Tuesday, April 30, 2024Hack attack on barrister … Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots … No support from chambers … Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities … Latest cancellations … Free speech in a spin … From our Editorial Board
Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank
Bar Talk Wednesday, April 24, 2024Perth big shot … Professional misconduct … Disclosure of privileged information … Guardianship proceedings … Breach of orders … Conscious disregard of the law … Consideration of recklessness … Breach of Harman obligation … Anthony Kanaan reports
Winners and grinners
Bar Talk Friday, February 16, 2024Smiling policy for lawyers … Better coordination required … When smiling runs amok … Happy lawyers and glum clients … Delighted clients and anxious lawyers … Moments of intense seriousness … Delirious money shots … From Justinian’s Photographic Editor