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Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"If we’re only picking people who have got completely lily-white records then we’ll be missing out on a lot of people that can contribute to public life." 

NSW Premier Chris Minns, endorsing Mal Lanyon, his pick for Police Commissioner, whose contributions to public life include shouting drunken obscenities at a paramedic who came to his aid, and commandeering a police launch for private entertainment on New Year's eve ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Oct082025

You're passing another Fox

• DateWednesday, October 8, 2025

Google unstitches AAT decision ... No procedural fairness from former Speaker of the House ... Earlier Google drama on the bench ... Stars of the story ... Appointment histories ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Monday
Oct062025

Charlotte Grieve

• DateMonday, October 6, 2025

On the couch with the journalist who successfully defended her investigative story about the rogue surgeon Dr Mudjed Al Muderis ... Gruelling defamation trial ... Massive expense ... Six days of cross-examination ... Breakthrough for the public interest defence ... Jumping through hoops ... Family-in-law 

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Tuesday
Sep302025

Last shout for Judge Judith

• DateTuesday, September 30, 2025

Judge Judith Gibson ... Leading defamation judge wraps up a long stint at the District Court of NSW ... Major cases in a rapidly changing media landscape ... The rise of internet defamation ... Law reform ... Highlights ... Part-time judging beckons 

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Monday
Sep292025

Fresh delays and miscarriages

• DateMonday, September 29, 2025

The slow lane ... Melbourne-based Circus judge late ... Repeat performance ... Dog day at the office ... Litigants left in misery ... Judicial oversight light with the birch ... Also, Sandy Groper's report from Perth ... Bush Fire case derailed due to magistrate's intervention and excessive questioning

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Friday
Sep262025

Answered prayers

• DateFriday, September 26, 2025

News snip ... Answers to unanswered questions asked of the Federal Court ... Undercover sleuth provides details ... Information the court didn't want to provide ... Exodus follows Home Affairs invasion 

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Friday
Sep262025

Notes from the Bar 'n' Grill

• DateFriday, September 26, 2025

Expanded real estate for bar bureaucrats in Sydney and Brisvegas ... Fewer convivial services ... Collegiality evaporates ... Looming AGM - resolutions banned ... Banana Benders Bar ... Flu shot insights from the Needle Room ... Tattered links with Counsels Chambers Ltd ... Elizabeth Street reports 

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Wednesday
Sep242025

From the Golden West

DateWednesday, September 24, 2025

Procrustes makes a State visit to Perth ... Columnist incandescent about white veterans from the Southern Rhodesian army parading in Kings Park ... Celebration for an outlawed colonial outpost ... Multiculturalism in the rear ... Adelaide taxis .. And other complaints ... Nazism next .. Grump, grump 

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Tuesday
Sep232025

Postcard from Rome

• DateTuesday, September 23, 2025

Fresh developments ... Berlusconi's "heavenly victory" ... Prosecuting magistrates in peril as politicians invade the patch ... Uproar in parliament as vote passes on its way to the Senate ... Referendum looms ... Silvana Olivetti with the latest 

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Friday
Sep192025

The rule of technology 

• DateFriday, September 19, 2025

CourtPath for Federales tracking slowly ... This year's completion date looking improbable ... Pathway strewn with obstacles ... Costly enterprise ... ART's you-beaut technology also behind the clock ... Update from our reporter Rodney Cake 

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