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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
Nov272017

Lodgement problems

Low level BAS drama for NSW brief ... Tax obligations ... Psychological reporting ... Subeta Vimalarajah at the Bureau de Spank 

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Monday
Nov272017

Ticket, please

Bikie barrister put off the road ... Memorising every page of the brief ... No ticket, no trade ... Licence cancelled ... Subeta Vimalarajah reports 

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Saturday
Nov252017

More strike action at federal courts

UPDATE ... It's NO again ... Federal courts' pay offer rejected ... Strike action back on ... Cases adjourned or delayed ... Belated conciliation ... Frustrated deadlock ... People & Culture guru unable to break the deadlock 

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Friday
Nov242017

The unravelling of Trump's America

Tax cuts ... Russia's election in America ... Unqualified judicial appointments ... Contempt at Guantánamo ... Degenerate art ... Our Man in Washington reports 

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Tuesday
Nov212017

BAQ and the mystery of the missing fax

Queensland bar election turmoil ... Colditz replies ... Cold shoulder for senate inquiry into contempt of court ... Ructions in Adelaide as SA DPP flees bar association ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Nov212017

Federal courts' pay pitch

Federal Courts' staff mulling the latest enterprise offer ... Management on a road show trying to sell the proposal with a mixture of lures and threats ... Disruption accompanies work-to-rule ... Northly winds ... Waiting for pay day 

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Monday
Nov202017

Home is where the exam is

The take-home exam collapses time but is on its last legs because of student collusion ... More invigilatory supervision required ... Exam audit underway ... Barely Legal reports from her corn-chip cave 

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Monday
Nov202017

Adelaide's finest draw the line against same-sex coupling

From Torrensside ... The rise and fall of the putative spouse ... Hard amigos from the SA ALP fought against same sex superannuation for a very particular individual ... Procrustes reports 

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Saturday
Nov182017

Deconstructing the Gayle trial

Gayle v Fairfax ... Defamatorium ... Fair is foul and foul is fair ... Weighing the balance of a testing trial ... Analysis of judge's rulings 

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