Plus ça change

PROCRUSTES    Thursday, April 18, 2024

Racism and prejudice … The police and their cultural predilections … The ABC and its Lattouf problem … Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton … Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty … Procrustes files

 

Merits review

Goings On ..., Theodora    Friday, April 12, 2024

AAT member’s unzipped opinions … Conservative elbows flailing in all directions … Unrestrained by convention … Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar … Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs … Fascination with gilded embroidery … Theodora reports

 

Celebrations at the Lubyanka

Court in the Act    Thursday, April 11, 2024

NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party … Planned revelries … Serious reflections … History by the yards … Monumental book … Artworks … Musicale … From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges

 

News from the Rialto

Hellfire Club    Wednesday, April 10, 2024

A veteran litigant burning through solicitors … Sydney barrister trading without a ticket … A string of criminal accusations against the Victorian Supreme Court … Latest in lamentable of legal follies and professional foibles … Anthony Kanaan reports

 

The greatest disaster since Oscar Wilde

Court in the Act    Thursday, April 4, 2024

Unknown unknowns … Known unknowns … Where to next for Brucie Boy? … Media mayhem … Witness intimidation … Hacks hacking at each other … Harriet Harman and the world of implied undertakings … From Ginger Snatch in the front row

 

Algorithmic injustices

Books    Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Criminal justice in the data age … The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice … Predicting the pattern of potential offenders … Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice

 

Happy ending?

City Desk    Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Thai massages … Brittany Higgins private communications … NACC looks at leaks to media hacks … Contempt of court … Hitting on Leon Zwier … Vendetta … New pastures for Whybrow … The Federal Court and the defamation racket … From our Chief City Correspondent

 

Courtroom capers

Roger Fitch Esq    Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Trump … Looking for the cash bond … Lenders likely to be stiffed … Supreme Court bends over for Trump … Novel arguments for immunity … Idiocy has its appeal … From Washington, Roger Fitch reports