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, 2025Mentally disordered visa applicant … Treatment by Commonwealth functionaries … Taking responsibility personally … Cancellation … Revocation … Procrustes reports from the gutter
Unread emails
PROCRUSTES Tuesday, June 3, 2025Family 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, 2025Heydon’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, 2025Saloon’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, 2025National 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, 2025Flour 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, 2024Child 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