Wigging up … wigging down

Uncategorized    Monday, December 21, 2015

Vic County Court’s schedule of judicial wig preferences … Study it carefully … Yarraside bar’s female silk defence … Bluto up-to-speed when it comes to concurring with other’s reasons … Seasons greetings from the conveyancer general 

 

Goody Two Shoes to the rescue

Uncategorized    Saturday, December 19, 2015

NSW law bulletin … The AG and the defenestrated Law Reform Commission … Getting Alan Cameron to breathe life into a comatose commission … Criminal trial disgrace in the Dizzo … CCA cranky about underfunded trial courts … Two-Shoes throws $20 million at the problem  

 

Hyperventilation and hostility

Uncategorized    Tuesday, December 15, 2015

ICAC … Conflicts of interest … Journalists as players and recipients of leaks … Unsound assertions in Inspector Levine’s unsatisfactory report on the Cunneen case … It’s important that commissioner Megan Latham not yield in the face of tribal attacks  COMMENT: It is indeed dangerous to "point out other people grammatical lapses". "Pleas keep a sense of proportion" about what is and is not important in this story. "Whom" is not the subject of either of the clauses you quote; it is the object of the prepositions "by" and "about".

 

It’s Christmas (Island)

Uncategorized    Monday, December 14, 2015

Maurice Blackburn wins the right to interview “entrusted people” with “protected information” for Christmas Island class action … Chink opens in punitive Border Force secrecy provisions … Jack Forrest to the rescue 

 

Prison – the new normal

Uncategorized    Thursday, December 3, 2015

Law Council’s Indigenous imprisonment symposium … Cutting the incarceration rate … Growing concern amid the political inaction … Suggestions, policies, strategies … Where to start? … From Kate Lilly at Conferenceville 

 

Chinese whispers

Uncategorized    Monday, November 30, 2015

Former Keddies man successfully fends off claims he breached court order to keep away from a former client … Overcharging … Whether Roulstone had “communicated” with the client by addressing a cheque to him … Candour and honesty … Bar ordered to issue a trading ticket … Some unexplained issues linger 

 

Recusal news

Uncategorized    Friday, November 20, 2015

A decade’s worth of recusals … Judges are taken, or take themselves, off cases where the appearance of conflicts looms too large … Bias survey in the wake of the unsuccessful disqualification application in Dyson Heydon’s case … From Emily Meller

 

God save the queen

Uncategorized    Thursday, November 19, 2015

Remembrance Day 1975 … Why didn’t Gough go to the High Court instead of eating a steak? … Big field for Law Council of Australia council elections … Trouble locating a permanent CEO for the LCA … Soapy freezes out the Australian Law Reform Commission