Time to woke-up

Uncategorized    Sunday, November 22, 2020

Mystery of the kiddie court tours … School students’ exposure to dangerous notions … Trump-loving academic’s batty predictions … Magic Circle’s fee spree … Toast of the town … Theodora reports  COMMENT: The marmalade ought to be added to Charles Barrington's Big Book of Spreads and Conserves.

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Solicitors can do no wrong

Uncategorized    Thursday, November 19, 2020

Disciplinary apparatus found wanting … Law Society in Phillip Street goes down three times in one week … Lawyers off the hook at the Bureau de Spank … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Tasmanian affairs

Uncategorized    Thursday, November 19, 2020

Clarification on bestiality, Apple Isle style … A “specie” of buggery … Penetration essential … And, no opportunity for defence counsel to make submissions on sentencing … Finding of apprehended bias against Supreme Court judge … Janek Drevikovsky has news from The Map  

 

Gun cabinet joker

Uncategorized    Thursday, November 12, 2020

No harm from emotional domestic flare-up … Life in the suburbs … Too much pineapple juice … Queensland Madge hauled over the coals … Miscarriage of justice … Apprehended bias … (No. It’s not Sal Vasta) … Threats to solicitor … New trial … Start again … Michael Baker reports 

 

Corruption Concealment Commission

Uncategorized    Saturday, November 7, 2020

As pressure mounts out of the hat jumps draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission … Peculiar structure based on flawed reasons … Porter’s politician protection racket … Drinking News Corp’s Kool-Aid … Janek Drevikovsky reports

 

Steward’s taxing ways

Uncategorized    Friday, November 6, 2020

Taxation and the latest addition to the High & Mighty … Trials and tribulations of tax minimisers … Foreigners in Paris … Mistreatment of multinationals and the “rule of law” … Janek Drevikovsky reports on what Simon says 

 

Behind the scenes at the selection cabal

Uncategorized    Friday, October 30, 2020

High Court appointments … Endorsements and disappointments … What now for the Last Chance Saloon? … Justices Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson … Background to selections … Politics and the process … Where’s the excellence? … Knock on Wood … Beach beached … Associate of judges, Ginger Snatch, reports  COMMENT: URL: Gleeson J has delivered plenty of notable judgments, the most recent being Crowley v Worley Ltd [2020] FCA 1522. COMMENT: The doctor's wife comparison is uncool in 2020, even in a satirical context. Plenty of equally biting but wittier and more contemporary comparisons out there.

 

Drama at the Sandgropers’ grill

Uncategorized    Friday, October 30, 2020

New procedures to deal with groping grievances … Outcry at the WA bar over the president’s ham-fisted message on sexual harassment … Female barristers incandescent … CJ drawn into the fracas … History of sex-pest judges in Perth … Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations … Grievance stewards … Janek Drevikovsky reports