The line of duty

Uncategorized    Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Coppers from Strike Force Raptor harass NSW country solicitor acting for a bikie … Intimidation … Stalked, shaken and stirred … Prevented from representing the client … A good wet lettuceing … Law Society knocks on the commissioner’s door … Janek Drevikovsky reports  COMMENT: URL: Why hasn't the Prothonotary commenced proceedings for contempt of court against these "officers"? Why hasn't the DPP charged these officers with perverting the course of justice, intimidation, stalking? Surely this is the type of conduct that should be met with sanction, to send a message to any other officer contemplating a course of intimidation.

 

Burston out all over

Uncategorized    Monday, April 19, 2021

Sexual harassment allegations from the cloacal underbelly of One Nation … Former senator suing P. Hanson … Former staffer also suing over alleged sexual harassment by ex-senator … Deed of release – Commonwealth not liable … Another scarifying experience of political life … Janek Drevikovsky on the case  

 

Ben Roberts-Smith is Stoked

Uncategorized    Thursday, April 15, 2021

As Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan the war involving VC recipient Ben Robert-Smith heats up … New allegations against the former soldier … Defamation proceedings have not kyboshed fresh news breaks … Kerry Stokes’ role as a litigation funder … Hero worship knows no bounds … Important trial for journalism and public interest reporting 

 

Appeal judges – the boiling frogs of Hong Kong

Uncategorized    Friday, April 2, 2021

Hong Kong … National Security Law … Court of Final Appeal … Judicial independence … Are the non-permanent judges compromised? … Reassessment following Spigelman’s departure … Australian judges cling on … Alan Zheng reports  COMMENT:

 

Scratching for $110

Uncategorized    Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Showdown at Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill … Yarraside bar’s crablike crawl away from Law Council divorce … Rethinking the options … A large group of concerned barristers circulate objections to executive decision … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Border lockdown for unticketed brief

Uncategorized    Monday, March 29, 2021

Unlicensed in Sydney … Brief expunged from the jam roll while licensed in Victoria and Queensland … Trying to get around bar exams failures … Main place of business was NSW … Tottering raft of constitutional arguments … Janek Drevikovsky reports

 

Letter from Blighty

Uncategorized    Monday, March 29, 2021

Tories meddling with the wheels of justice … Johnson government wants to bring the Supreme Court to heel … Too much “judicial activism” … Clamping down on judicial reviews of administrative decisions … Increased statutory senility … Lord Chancellor has strange thoughts about linchpins … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Law Council decapitated

Uncategorized    Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Yarraside’s “anti-woke” uprising … Blandification of Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill … Difficulty stumping-up $110 per brief to fund lawyers’ voice to the nation … “Complicated issue” … More responses to come … Outcry over push to return to court … Peach Melba reports  COMMENT: Memories are very short !!!!

The LCA did have individual membership in the early 1980's.

It was the Vic Bar that eventually did not support it