Former Apple Isle DPP denounces plan to increase the retirement age of judges … Slings and arrows aimed at the chief justice … A more youthful and reformist bench is required … Judges should be refreshed … Graphs and charts … Studies on age and mental deterioration … Tim Ellis puts the case for ageism 

Polling underway at Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill … Whether to decamp from the Law Council … Facts and figures in dispute … Secret correspondence from lofty sources … Emails and messages getting more heated … Contentions … Cases for stay and go 

Palmer in the High Court fighting for his $28 billion … Taking the State of Western Australia to the cleaners … Nuremberg trials … Martin Luther King … Rule of law … Clive wants his iron ore … Tears and emotion unparalleled in the court’s history … Janek Drevikovsky reports on proceedings before an awestruck bench   

The Federal Court reworks its approach to asylum seekers … Punitive detention … Government failure to deport leads to award of damages … Deportation with damages … High Court gazes at the tea leaves … Janek Drevikovsky looks at the latest cases 

Federal government tightens the net on information in migration cases … Applicants deprived of access to information held by the government … Federal courts have to jump through hoops to examine “protected information” … Another special from the Dutton-Pezzullo bunker … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Defrocked solicitor struggles to get back on the jam roll … Unimpressive evidence … Court unmoved by reference from silk … Ecclesiastical law evoked in thwarted action against the Queen … Hodgepodge of confusion … Court vexed … Anna Kretowicz reports 

 

Barrister leads solicitor astray … Snappy correspondence sent to court registry officer seeking urgent hearing … Attempt at forum shopping … Allegations of impropriety against a judge … Discourteous and provocative missives … The gallows avoided by humble apologies and re-education … Ginger Snatch reports

The Christian Porter vanquished but delusional … Convinced his humiliation is a triumph … Woe … Allegations remain unamended … Where are the damages and the grovel? … Settlement statement by ABC concedes nothing … Porter the pollie is finito … Polly Peck reports COMMENT: I'm not a lawyer (any more) but I think if i were the ABC i would have insisted on the word Discontinue or one of is near relatives being mentioned against Porter's name in the first line or 2.

The War isn't over if someone expresses regret it seems to my untrained eye. COMMENT: COMMENT: If Porter has the hide to run again in the next election, will Jo Dyer or her nominee run as an independent candidate on a rape reform platform and deliver preferences away from Porter?
Tom Kelly