Memories, memories … What the victim said to the bishop … The wraps come off the Bishop Wilson appeal … Fence-sitting by the Godly … Fallibility of victim’s memory greater than that of a bishop who did not report child sex abuse … Gabrielle Hunter reports
Family court scheme goes down the gurgler
Uncategorized Wednesday, April 3, 2019Budget night … Porter can’t get the family courts legislation through the senate … Crumbs off the table for the legally aided … Lumps of money for the government’s proposed Integrity Commission … Plus follow-up money for ASIC and ARPA to get stuck into the bankers … Janek Drevikovsky reports from lock-up land
Top notch team for Timor Leste defence
Uncategorized Tuesday, March 26, 2019Silken beauties on the ticket for Collaery and Witness K “national security” trial … Major law and justice commitment missing from NSW election campaign … Judges in South Australia withdraw from SC appointments as QC proposal flounders … Leading players will be absent from the Geoffrey Rush judgment … Theodora reports
Mothers’ Day alarums and excursions
Uncategorized Monday, March 25, 2019Nine and Fairfax … Lawyers suing their client’s journalists … Messy loose end of the takeover now sorted … Lawyer makes unfounded allegations on behalf of his defamation client … “A massive unit” … Clarity, detail and accuracy missing in action
Family strife
Uncategorized Friday, March 22, 2019Latest Family Court appointments … Friends in high places … The Abbott connection … Grumbling in the ranks … AG Porter tinkering at the edges … D-Day for FCFCA legislation … Law Council gets out the slingshot … Janek Drevikovsky reports
Judge shoots a few people on his way out the door
Uncategorized Tuesday, March 12, 2019Justice Peter Murphy resigned from the Family Court on Friday … An incendiary farewell speech … Barbed comments about political appointments and courts as the “playthings of governments” … Gutless, unnamed judges rebuked for attacks on the appeal division … Two Wigs Willy and Pascoe “should hang their heads in shame” … The farce of “reform” … Murphy’s speech in full
Your money at work
Uncategorized Tuesday, March 12, 2019NSW pre-election administrative review … Expenditure on new “working models” for courts … Coroners stiffed by stringent funding … Law & Justice Foundation grants program gets politicised … Janek Drevikovsky reporting from the Bear Pit
Dietrich still alive and kicking
Uncategorized Friday, March 8, 2019The money spigot turned off … Legal Aid comes to the party after Supreme Court temporarily halts the Family Court bomber trial … Available dollars all spent before the massive trial began … Puzzle over transfer of property to accused’s wife … Gabrielle Hunter reports