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My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >> 

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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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 Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See 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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Jan172019

Pearce's man in parliament

Frontbencher of the week ... The Christian Porter ... Songs from the Coalition Book of Prayer ... Negative gearing and the campaign of negativity ... Striding into the election with the Liberal's real estate investment guide ... Flying in the face of facts 

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Tuesday
Jan152019

Hands off

Britain's leading legal lights call out old deplorables at the bar ... Too much inappropriateness ... The season of harassment ... New policies agreed by the Inns of Court ... Life at the bar is "deeply seductive" ... Current reporting rules for barristers are inadequate ... Latest from the Old Dart 

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Monday
Jan142019

Fire burn and cauldron bubble

Trump - Russia's man in Washington ... Unhinged, disordered, unfit ... More villains to walk the plank ... Buying elections and the gerrymander ... Conservative SCOTUS could make things worse ... Unqualified federal judges ... William Barr the new/old Matthew Whitaker ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Friday
Jan112019

The politics of prosecuting 

UPDATE ... DPP news from Adelaide and Sydney ... Kimber out in SA ... Bar prez pressed for time ... Torrens' briefs beg the government to bring back the royal bauble ... NSW District Court trials get slower and longer ... Archbishop Wilson: police minister says sorry for being rude about a magistrate's sentencing decision 

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Wednesday
Jan092019

Age shall not weary them

Aged care royal commission ... Appointment schmozzle ... Dick Tracey to the rescue ... WA Supremes end up with an extra no-vowels judge 

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Friday
Dec212018

Sin City snippets

Latest chest developments ... Long Bay lock-down ... Court watch ... New judges galore ... Bathroom emergencies ... Legal aid's bush crisis ... Coronial selection capers ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Dec212018

Cautious rights for Banana Benders

Explainer ... Queensland's Bill of Rights ... Cheers and Boos ... New law on the cusp of happening ... Final submissions ... From the dialogic school ... Compliance and remedies ... The culture warriors have nowhere to go ... Janek Drevikovsky spells it out  

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Wednesday
Dec192018

More of Rush's "spirited enthusiasm"

Yael Stone puts the cat among the pigeons ... Will Rush sue again? ... A confident and creditable performance ... The backstage role of Leon Zwier from Arnold Bloch Leibler ... Belittling women who have something to say ... Defamation, a mug's game 

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Sunday
Dec162018

A special moment

Rarified and ancient law subject ... Barely Legal comes third in the class ... A medal for his troubles ... Not much ceremony here ... Tin posing as bronze 

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