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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Jul232018

Rupert's Bootle Boy

Peter Lyons in The Dart reviews Les Hinton's The Bootle Boy ... Journalism, ruthless Rupert, hacking, politics & human frailty ... From Liverpool, to Adelaide, to New York, to London ... Globe trotting insider who clung to the boss 

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Monday
Jul232018

The lawyer as wine tourist

Wine man Gabriel Wendler visits the extraordinary Thomas Hardy Wine Library in Adelaide and d'Arenberg's Cube at McLaren Vale ... One of the great wine book collections in the world, while The Cube makes a big impact on the Southern Vales 

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Friday
Jul202018

Greg Tolhurst

Greg Tolhurst is the Executive Director of the NSW Bar Association and he's on Justinian's Couch ... An indoors-outdoors sort of person ... Huge pile of books beside his bed ... Lots of music ... Running the bar association at a time of considerable disruption ... Bin Chicken SC and Bullfry practising without tickets ... Dinner table banter ... Dessert and drumming ... No hot sun but more vitamin D 

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Wednesday
Jul182018

Dinner's off

Attorney General seeking money from well-lined barristers ... Feeder pond for the federal courts ... Solicitor whacked with costs after long-winded communications break-down ... Bye-bye Bluto ... ANU's online Juris Doctor brought back to life ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Monday
Jul162018

Points on The Map

Groomed for success ... Ticket remains in suspension after failed Full Court appeal ... More collateral injuries from the Neill-Fraser case ... Notebooks shredded in Slicer contempt scare ... Supreme Court judges sit on top of each other 

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Friday
Jul132018

Self-represented lawyers and their fees

Lawyers who act for themselves have a fee-earner for a client ... Breakthrough from the NSW Court of Appeal ... Chorley principle extends to barristers ... Happily, all brands of lawyers can now charge fees for representing themselves in litigation ... Stephen Murray reports courtside 

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Friday
Jul132018

Horrifications, blackouts and stress

"Im a solicitor ... and you're a fat c***" ... The defence of "alcohol induced blackout" ... Plus, a barrister tells a fib to Philip Selth ... Plus, the dreadful bank deposit book mix-up 

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Friday
Jul062018

It's a Lottery

Busy time at the Bureau de Spank ... Barrister's breach of undertakings ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Solicitor lets non-lawyer husband have access to her firm's trust account ... Unauthorised withdrawals ... Lack of professional candour ... Stephen Murray reports from the Hellfire Club 

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Friday
Jul062018

Lorenzo Street's passing out parade

Street the Stockman ... The shirt of flies ... Platypus Junction ... Street the charmer ... Friend of the press ... A legacy in law and love ... The sea and the bush 

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