Laying it on thick at swearing-in ceremonies … Facts ignored in the face of too much grovel … Quick judge spanked for slowing down the works … Anti-rights zealot plonked into the human rights chair … Groper reports from Perth COMMENT: How dare the government appoint a human rights commissioner who actally believes in human rights (like free speech, due process and the presumption of innocence), over made-up collectivist entitlements…
Vlad impaled
Uncategorized Friday, September 10, 2021A WIN win … Atanaskovic unsuccessful in fight over bill … Client charged for investigation into money filched by firm’s employee … Promise not to charge … Work infected by conflict … No informed consent … Goodbye $150,000 … Janek Drevikovsky reports
Vignettes
Uncategorized Thursday, September 9, 2021Chambers lockdown as Covid strikes gilded floor … Cows come home in well-executed judicial flourish … Family lawyers urged to wise-up to “reputation risk management” … Magistrate sticks his beak into reworking the prosecution case … Theodora reports
Guns and taxes
Uncategorized Tuesday, September 7, 2021Tasmanian tax luminary goes down in land tax appeal … Properties held in trust and super fund … Back tax assessed … Incorrect classification as “principal residence” … Facts not law
Full-throttle public spanking
Uncategorized Monday, September 6, 2021Court of Appeal throws out muddle-headed Law Society plea to suppress identity of “permanently” unfit solicitor … Offending solicitor’s name already online … Open justice … Public must not think lawyers get favourable treatment, even though they do … Janek Drevikovsky reports
Send in the clowns
Uncategorized Saturday, September 4, 2021Curtains up for new court … FCFCOA is now upon us … A camel designed by Bookshelves Brandis … What can go wrong? … Two Wigs Willy down to one wig … Limited input from lawyers in development of blockbuster rules and directions … New titles … New registrars … A family lawyer writes COMMENT: EMAIL: URL: I think Karsten might have helped with that one COMMENT: New “no publication” watermarked Judgements !
No more air tasking submissions 😧
Dispatches from Kabul
Uncategorized Wednesday, September 1, 2021Fear and uncertainty confront the Afghani legal profession … Lawyers, law and chaos … Kabul lawyer says his practice has been “suspended” … Women judges … Destruction of legal research work at the university … Return of a Sharia legal system … Lawyers and judges in flight
Who wants silk?
Uncategorized Tuesday, August 24, 2021Scoop … NSW’s 2021 list of senior counsel hopefuls … Annual festival plays out against wreckage wrought by the plague … Despair – Depression – And everything in-between … Exclusive … Data and details COMMENT: May the best applicants win!