Apple Isle confusion over pleadings in a negligence claim … The potting machine out of action after a power surge … Poles and wires … How much pleading is necessary? … Only the facts, not the legal arguments … The Judicature Act … The common law in play … The Map … Janek Drevikovsky reveals all  

MH17 class action … Plane shot down over Ukraine … Non-resident cannot sue under Montreal Convention … Family should not have been barred from the proceedings … Failure to inform … Insouciance … Conduct of lawyers fell “well short” of their obligations … Show cause why the lawyers should not pay the appellants’ costs … Mea Culpa … Janek Drevikovsky reports  COMMENT: URL:

Yarraside furore … Essoign Club clinging on in stressful times … Bar Council not booking enough functions … Uncertain future … Rent ructions … Frosty relations … Facilitated discussions … Last bastion of the rear guard … Theodora reports 

Latest from Circus Side … Sal Vasta’s written judgment recast from the original oral version … Threat of imprisonment hits the cutting room floor … Family Court appeal judges regret having to admonish the Circus judge … Sigh … Another burdensome remitted hearing … Janek Drevikovsky reports  

The ashes of Dyson Heydon’s standing scattered far and wide … We’re ashamed … Tally of the catastrophe … Retreat to the club … No more blind eyes … Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves … Character, law, and judging … Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

Bulletin from the Bear-Pit … Recasting the top job at LECC … Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons … Crime and insanity … Tendency evidence gets tweaked … Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission … Answers on notice … Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street 

LATE EXTRA … A family take-home guide to fresh fallouts from the Dyson Heydon revelations … Heydon’s harassments … Civil and criminal possibilities … Who knew what, when … Gleeson keeps schtum … Previous cover-ups at the top … Sex harassment policies getting a hasty work-over … Strange wrinkles … Ginger Snatch updates the drama  COMMENT: Members of the public including no doubt members of the legal fraternity should no doubt respect the notion of innocent until proven guilty & let due process take its course in an impartial way so that one accused of a wrong can be fairly tried.

Dicey Heydon … Time and tide in the affairs of men … Industrial scale sexual harassment from the High & Mighty … “Inadvertent and unintended” … Who knew what and when … More to come … The masked man … From Ginger Snatch, who associates with judges