How to make (more) gravy

PROCRUSTES    Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Class actions … Missing wages for Aboriginal stockmen … Mortimer CJ takes the reins as Murphy J faces retirement … Massive scoops of money for Shine and LLS … Dribbles for the class members … Poorly aimed attack by Values and Deportment Mistress … Procrustes to the rescue

 

Star gazing

PROCRUSTES    Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Mentally disordered visa applicant … Treatment by Commonwealth functionaries … Taking responsibility personally … Cancellation … Revocation … Procrustes reports from the gutter

 

Unread emails

PROCRUSTES    Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails … Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored … Unravelling chaos … Trials invalidated … Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner … Breach of statutory requirement … Damages … From our Team on the Torrens

 

Party time for Dicey

PROCRUSTES    Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Heydon’s book – a pathway to rehabilitation … The predatory man and the clever intellect – all wrapped up in the one person … Academic tome and cancel agenda … Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn’t vanish … Book launch with young associates at a safe distance … Procrustes thinks out loud

 

Protection rackets

PROCRUSTES    Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Saloon’s immunity spree … No liability for advocates, churches, and judges … Ponderous analysis … Equality of courts in the food chain … Sal Vasta’s tantrum … Judicial thoughts off limits … Poor Wiggers … Latest from Procrustes

 

Wake up call for woke busters

PROCRUSTES    Wednesday, February 12, 2025

National Party pollies ape Trump’s binary sex agenda … Plane crashes caused by transgendered air traffic controllers … What happens to an Australian passport marked X (instead or F or M) at US immigration? … High Court and gender reassignment cases … Procrustes references Tiresias The Blind

 

Catching the backpay gravy train

PROCRUSTES    Thursday, January 16, 2025

Flour and baccy … What happened to WA’s one percent? … Settlement of stockmen’s missing wages in Qld … Stolen wages case in WA … Litigation funding … Lawyers’ fees … Peanuts for the deprived … Procrustes reports

 

Bird on the wing

PROCRUSTES    Friday, November 29, 2024

Child abuse and the Catholic Church … High Court veers clear of a “skeletal fracture” of the common law … “Control” and independent contractors … Vicarious liability … Ignoring common law developments elsewhere … Australia’s exceptionalism … Ass and the law … Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP