Swearing during ethics exam likely to bring the profession into disrepute … Rwanda on ice … Magistrate ticked off for butting into animal cruelty discourse … Charles tells parliament about a battery of 40 Bills and the flowering of economic growth … Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes from the Old Dart
Gone fishing
PROCRUSTES Monday, August 5, 2024Native Title Act … Fishing rights … Abalone principally reserved for the Chinese market … State fishing laws breached by Indigenous fishers … NSW and South Australian appeal courts differ on the “legal burden” of defendants and their native title qualifications … Comity … Something for the Saloon to resolve … Procrustes, the fisherman’s friend, reports
Hopelessness
Around the Firms Friday, August 2, 2024Lawyer sued over waste of time and money for unsuccessful defence … Obligation to warn … Failure to read documents – unwise, but not negligent … Client disabused of false expectations … Lawyer in the clear … Anthony Kanaan reports
Tottling into court
City Desk Wednesday, July 31, 2024Sen. Reynolds’s (Lib. WA) defamation case … Opening shots … Western Australia, land of the stolen GST and big libel awards … Trial judge Paul Tottle … What’s next for Brittany Higgins … Research by Stephen Murray
Trump v US
Roger Fitch Esq Tuesday, July 30, 2024Judge Aileen Cannon … No more special prosecutors … Rogue judges at the highest level … Presidential immunity decision worse than anticipated … A dreadful partisan court … Milwaukee convention … Vance has no conviction – unlike his running mate … Roger Fitch files from Washington
Senator sues staffer raped on her couch
Groper Friday, July 26, 2024Reynolds v Higgins … Protective trust … Implied Harman undertakings insufficient to stop plaintiff’s leaks to the media … Patsy “journalists” engaged in harassment of the defendant … Strong defence pleadings … NACC and Integrity Commission investigation into Sofronoff leaks … Sandy Groper reports from Perth
Turnover on the factory floor
Court in the Act Thursday, July 25, 2024Churn at the Federal Court … Executives move on … Acting appointments … AAT recruitments … Down the garden path with CourtPath … Jackboots uncensored … Felicity Fume reports
Fresh horrors
Court in the Act Wednesday, July 24, 2024A forgotten judgment emerges from the bottom drawer … Fault lies elsewhere … The ghost of Bookshelves Brandis … Huge delay working out GST and its role in business turnover … Federale judges birched by the Fulls and the Saloon … Ginger Snatch reports