Those pesky judges ... Man held in immigration detention after he had been granted a protection visa ... Federal Court orders immediate release ... Minister's conduct "disgraceful" ... Habeas corpus application ... Read more ...
The washing of hands ... The Rabid Princess and the passing of bucks ... Virus laden cruise ships and the Australian response ... A forest of laws ... Remembering the plague ship Surry ... The Black Death's legal legacy ... Procrustes at large ... Read more ...
Plague moots ... Flattening the curve with remote mooting ... Easter stroll in the park tests Barely Legal's mooting skills ... Barely Legal v Const. Plod ... Public Health Restrictions on Gathering and Movement ... When three people gathering together in a public place become two ... Read more ...
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Films for lawyers in lockdown ... Miss Lumière selects 10 of her favourite courtroom films ... An Atticus Finch/John Grisham free zone ... Not all is black and white ... Flaws in the legal process finely wrought on celluloid ... Most if not all are available on streaming services ... Read more ...
Tales of the South Pacific ... Enjoying a Slice of Samoa ... Fees burnt in Cauldron blaze ... "Don't hesitate - litigate" ... More prosecutors take to the bench ... From Justinian's archive, February 21, 2017 ... Read more ...
Obit ? Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Richard Ackland reflects, far too briefly, on the life of Philip Selth ... Former executive director of the NSW Bar Association ... Networker extraordinaire ... Historian, administrator and consumer of Japanese food ... An unexpected friendship
Miss Lumière ? Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Documentaries and TV series ... Ten favourites hand-picked by Miss Lumière ... Lawyers, crime, trials and injustice ... Pithy analysis ... DVDs and streaming by the mile ... Months of worthwhile top-level distraction on the box
Polly Peck ? Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Anomalies, inconsistencies and unfairness in the JobKeeper scheme ... How come full-time workers will be worse off than casuals and part-timers? ... Treasurer Frydenberg won't explain ... What's not to like when subsidies for some are higher than the usual paypacket? ... No justification for a flat-rate payment structure ... Alternate schemes in NZ and Canada ... Nathan Twibill analyses the government's perverse distortion of pay and work
Polly Peck ? Thursday, April 23, 2020 The new COVID-19 tracker is under the auspices of Minister Stuart Robert ... What could go wrong? ... Problems with the proposed app ... Prying police forbidden ... How it works ... Hacking is inevitable ... A decentralised model would be less of a threat to privacy ... Centralised server would be a vehicle for mass surveillance ... The key issues clarified by Janek Drevikovsky
Miss Lumière ? Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Miss Lumière selects 10 of her favourite courtroom films ... An Atticus Finch/John Grisham free zone ... Not all is black and white ... Flaws in the legal process finely wrought on celluloid ... Most if not all are available on streaming services
Procrustes ? Monday, April 20, 2020 Police riffling through a journalist's drawers ... Illegal warrant, but not illegal enough to stop the Keystone Cops keeping the material on the USB stick and using it ... Seizure of property and judicial discretion ... Forget the journalism, the common law all at sea on unlawfully acquired evidence ... Where's Entick v Carrington when you need it? ... Procrustes gets to grips with the High Court's twisted knickers
Barely Legal ? Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Flattening the curve with remote mooting ... Easter stroll in the park tests Barely Legal's mooting skills ... Barely Legal v Const. Plod ... Public Health Restrictions on Gathering and Movement ... When three people gathering together in a public place become two ... Reprimand and warning