Child abuse and the Catholic Church … High Court veers clear of a “skeletal fracture” of the common law … “Control” and independent contractors … Vicarious liability … Ignoring common law developments elsewhere … Australia’s exceptionalism … Ass and the law … Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP

Church abuse survivor given the Bird … High Court and the “agency” of Catholic priests … No liability for predatory clerics … How did we get to this? … What would Peter McClellan think? … Procrustes on the latest loophole for the church

SCOOP … Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council … Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct … Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons … Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian

Water Softener and the Planet … Further details of the width and depth of their relationship … Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian’s application for access to more documents … A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation … Collated reporting … More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen