Halliday's 15,000 bottles
Holiday reading for the wine lover (and drinker) ... Wine correspondent G.D. Wendler gets his nose into James Halliday's autobiography A Life in Wine ... A great journey from Clayton Utz to...
View ArticleThe Waterlow killings
Tom Kelly reviews The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy by Canberra lawyer Pamela Burton ... Falling through the cracks ... Anthony Waterlow and the fatal stabbing of his father and...
View ArticleFelicity Gerry
With sex crimes so much in the news it's felicitious that London barrister Felicity Gerry has, for the time being, fetched-up in Darwin ... The co-author of The Sexual Offences Handbook has some...
View ArticleNeil Watt
Behind the scenes there was quite a battle that accompanied the creation of the new uniform solicitors' conduct rules ... One of the warriors is on Justinian's couch ... Neil Watt, former Baptist...
View ArticleHari Kari
Mrs Parker reviews Stuart Littlemore's novel Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice - Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever ... Nothing original here ... Harry's in desperate need of an injection of substance...
View ArticleWendler in Bordeaux
Our wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler makes a pilgramage to Cheval Blanc, one of the world's great wineries ... Classification crisis and litigation ... Modernisation under Bernard Arnault ... 2006...
View ArticleMark Dreyfus
Mark Dreyfus talks films, books and music ... The weather nut confides the contents of his refrigerator and other important lifestyle details ... The Commonwealth Attorney General is lured onto...
View ArticleRetrospective: Te Muna Road Pinot
The frustrations of a pinot drinker ... With so many clones of the pinot vine, performance varies greatly ... "Fickle and troublesome" ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler finds some...
View ArticleI'm just wild about Harry
The punchy suburbs of Adelaide in the 1970s ... Barrister Richard Beasley's new novel Me and Rory Macbeath evokes shades of the Violet Roberts case ... Boys into men ... Domestic violence, bullying and...
View ArticleGill Phillips
Gill Phillips is The Guardian's top in-house lawyer in London ... She's been in Australia for the past fortnight sussing out the local legal scene and drawing up long and short lists of external media...
View ArticleMichael Sexton and the Super Tuscans
NSW solicitor general Michael Sexton discusses Italian reds and whites with Justinian's wine correspondent, Gabriel Wendler ... Region by region, grape by grape, they let their taste buds do the...
View ArticleGeoffrey Watson
Panadol ... Wikipedia ... Laziness ... Atticus Finch ... Hot chips ... Frequent flyer points ... Ian Chappell ... Bach's Goldberg Variations - The secret ingredients in the life of Geoffrey Watson...
View ArticleSteve Mark
Influenced by Doris Lessing and John Lee Hooker ... Proselytizer for the "globalisation of ethics" ... Closely identified with blancmange ... Steve Mark, the lawyer who wanted to stay out of jail,...
View ArticleRob Hulls
Former Victorian attorney general Rob Hulls on Justinian's couch ... The man who brought the Charter of Human Rights to Victoria and introduced judicial tendering ... Now director of the Centre for...
View ArticleWeight of Evidence
Forgery, drunkenness, prejudice, injustice ... The notorious Newtown Ejectment Case of the 1850s provides a fascinating slice of colonial life ... Matt Murphy's Weight of Evidence reviewed by Linda...
View ArticleNicholas Hasluck
Former WA Supreme Court judge Nicholas Hasluck is our couchee ... Jurist and author - his latest work, Legal Limits, examines the connections between law and literature Hasluck: problem with...
View ArticleJane McAdam
Professor Jane McAdam is on Justinian's couch ... Shedding light on her job as director of the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law ... What's a nice lass from the north shore...
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