Bar grovels to shocking shock jock

Uncategorized    Wednesday, May 11, 2016

UPDATE … “Good morning” … Noel Hutley apologies to radio bully … Bar cover-up on leaks concerning private discussions about members … DPP’s woeful performance in the Lynette Daley case … Brandis aims High 

 

The electorate needs to concentrate on the camps

Uncategorized    Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Just as Labor candidates are breaking ranks on asylum policy Burnside launches a new book on offshore detention … Former appeals judge Stephen Charles says Manus and Nauru are “concentration camps” … Madeline Gleeson examines what happens to refugees when they are out of sight, out of mind 

 

King hit

Uncategorized    Saturday, May 7, 2016

Court orders scandalous allegations against lawyers to be removed from the court file and sealed … Application to restrain plaintiff’s travel overseas made in the mistaken belief that he was about the leave the country … No basis in claim that lawyers acted unprofessionally … Seb Tonkin reports 

 

Cross-examination interruptus

Uncategorized    Friday, May 6, 2016

Justice Michael Adams birched by NSW Court of Appeal for excessive interference during a trial … Trial was procedurally unfair … Start again … No finding of apprehended bias … Seb Tonkin reports  

 

Bob the Builder goes to court

Uncategorized    Thursday, May 5, 2016

Senator Bob Day asks Peter King to ask the High Court to overturn senate election reforms … Four pronged attack on Electoral Act amendment … Hannah Ryan courtside 

 

Chest-beating from Macquarie Street’s new lawn-order man

Uncategorized    Friday, April 29, 2016

Draconian legislation in NSW to combat “serious” crime … British equivalent extends its reach to trivial offences … NSW’s law and justice policies being run by the police … Liberal MP, Henskens SC, defends police state measures and criticises the bar for speaking out … Ill-informed political attack 

 

British exports

Uncategorized    Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Global divorce funder heading Down Under … while British commercial law shops are hauling offshore loot back to London 

 

Trials and tribulations

Uncategorized    Monday, April 25, 2016

Waterstreet dips in and out … NSW’s land titles registry on the block … Law & Justice Foundation being starved to death … Another trial for David Eastman