Here it is. You can read the transcript or listen. Some tidbits:

'You only have to look around the rest of Australia at present and you can see that there are systemic problems in every police force and they seem to recur with unfortunate frequency.'
He prosecuted Lionel Murphy and cross-examined Michael Kirby in that case.
He acted [...]

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Justice Gillard is my favourite judgment writer. What a shame the legal system is about to lose him to retirement. When the moment is ripe, he gives the cattle who wander without insight onto the slaughterhouse floor the most splendid judicial whallopings. Justice Gillard is a senior judge, and there is a serious point to [...]

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In my post "Judge uses big word", I commented on President Mason's use of "tergiversation". Now David Starkoff at Inchoate has noted another's analysis of the odds of each of the High Court judges other than Justice Kirby being responsible for the appearance of "epexegetical" (which seems to mean "explanatory in a way [...]

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The only black judge of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas is said by Wikipedia to be second most likely to vote in favour of free speech in cases before the Court. Yet his advocacy of free speech does not extend to enthusiasm for personal exercise of the right; he has not asked [...]

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Police. Magistrate. Appeal judge.

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In MK v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 758, the Sydney Morning Herald was ordered to pay $100,000 in damages for defamation to a barrister about whom it published a sneering error-riddled excoriation. Just shows that you should not kick a barrister when he's down. [Update: in April, the NSW Court of Appeal [...]

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