Another sexually harassing judge under secret scrutiny … Death of Robin Speed – what now for the Law of Rulers Institute? … Averting the Republic of Gilead – the Law Reform Commission steps up … Theodora reports
Complaints department
Archive Thursday, February 9, 2023Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial … A storm of defamation actions … Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action … Pipelines to the press … Federal Court opens the suppression portal … Threats, complaints and investigations … Theodora reports
Morpheus arises
Archive Tuesday, February 7, 2023Judge’s inability to complete the work as “quickly as I would have liked” … Latest in a string of slowcoach judgments … Supreme Court delays … Boilerplate explanations … Memory remains as fresh as a daisy … Groper reports
Keane to serve
Archive Tuesday, January 31, 2023Former High Court justice Pat Keane takes up a spot on Hong Kong’s final court … British judges bail out … Rule of law under constant assault … Overseas judges excluded from sensitive security cases … Political meddling with the HK legal profession … Lawyers flee … Max Shanahan reports
Lest we forget
Archive Friday, January 27, 2023Justinian’s review of lawyers and the law for the year just passed … 2022 – strangely memorable, yet forgettable … Few, if any, elephant stamps … Frantic activity by the new attorney general … News from the Foreign Desk … Law ‘n Order … Misconduct … The works, from Max Shanahan
ICC defence lawyers revolt
Uncategorized Thursday, December 29, 2022Defence counsel’s shabby pay and conditions at the International Criminal Court … Legal aid negotiations dragging on indefinitely … Pay stuck at 2013 level … An unbalanced system … The bench decidedly frosty … Silence in the court … Max Shanahan reports
End of the road
Uncategorized Tuesday, December 27, 2022Slide into financial ruin … Prison … Tickling the trust account to stay afloat … Multiple instances of trust irregularities … Poker machines of no assistance … Ill-health … Doom … Max Shanahan reports
Another Jarndyce
Uncategorized Tuesday, December 20, 2022Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years … Delays and apprehended bias … Distain and disregard … Going nowhere after eight years … Retrial ordered … Start again … Artemus Jones reports COMMENT: *disdain