Church abuse survivor given the Bird … High Court and the “agency” of Catholic priests … No liability for predatory clerics … How did we get to this? … What would Peter McClellan think? … Procrustes on the latest loophole for the church

Corruption and all that … Buying politicians on the cheap … What’s the quid pro quo … The absurdities of Bridget McKenzie … Remembering Alastair McAlpine … School cadets – Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell … Inspector lifts the skirts … Procrustes on the beat

Chagossians and their lost homeland … British courts fail to deliver … Stolen rocks in the Indian Ocean … Common law’s inability to deal with state power … Enter the ICJ … Handover to Mauritius … Septics rule the waves … Ilois keep off … Procrustes on the perils of piracy

Native Title Act … Fishing rights … Abalone principally reserved for the Chinese market … State fishing laws breached by Indigenous fishers … NSW and South Australian appeal courts differ on the “legal burden” of defendants and their native title qualifications … Comity … Something for the Saloon to resolve … Procrustes, the fisherman’s friend, reports

Latest additions to the Federales … Breeding ground for the Saloon … Needham and McDonald JJ … South Australian CJs who spurned the High … John Bray CJ – selected poems and ornamental bird bath … Crow Eaters … Procrustes files

Procrustes closely analyses recent Justinian reports … The Ippster and Stella Liebeck … Tort law reform that went beyond the Pale … In Tassie, no one is allowed to speak for the forests … Standing up against State rule of the trees … Where’s Syd Shea when you need him?

Migration … New directions for Direction 99 … Procrustes scrutinises the migration “debate” … Twaddle from the Coalition and News Corp … Duration of ties to Australia … Consideration of the best interests of small children … Preference given to home grown criminal class