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, 2015NSW 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, 2015ICAC … 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, 2015Maurice 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, 2015Law 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, 2015Former 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, 2015A 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, 2015Remembrance 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