Riots in English cities fed by online misinformation about refugees … Policing and prosecution policies … Fast and furious processing of offenders … Online Safety Act grapples with new challenges … Increased policing of speech on tech platforms … Hugh Vuillier reports from London
Postcard from London
London Calling Thursday, October 3, 2024Watching Starmer mince the sausages … How to move a file from the inactive list … Court’s failed email notification system …Sleep monitors want to measure the extent of lawyers’ restfulness … Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from London
Sore bottoms on the bench
Goings On ..., Theodora Wednesday, September 25, 2024Birchings for judgments that went askew … Appeal reasons from higher up the food chain … FCA judge finds that a commercial loss is really a bargain … Trauma at the Tribunal … Theodora reports
All hands on deck
Court in the Act Monday, September 23, 2024Sexual intercourse … Onus of proof … Loss of a ship at sea … Dicta of Michael Lee in Lehrmann … House of Lords and Sherlock Holmes … Unsatisfactory witnesses … Federal Circuit Court unable to make findings … Case dismissed … Ginger Snatch reports
Degrees of punishment
City Desk Wednesday, September 18, 2024Green, blue and red computers … The labyrinthine path to education in pokey … Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate … Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place … Veronica Lenard reports
Armidale Madge ejected
Court in the Act Wednesday, September 18, 2024Local Court Madge goes head-to-head with “truculent” brief in finger licking case … Shouting match … Crossing the line … “First warning” … Transcript … Historical note .. Reflections on defending vigorously … Anthony Kanaan reports
750 paragraphs later …
Court in the Act Wednesday, September 18, 2024Family dramas out west … Justinian’s solemn duty to point out where things go awry … Rapid-rise family judge fails to explain … Parenting orders revisited on appeal … Order for equal parenting that nobody wanted … Anthony Kanaan reports
Tootsies with Planet Janet
City Desk Wednesday, September 11, 2024Water 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