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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
Oct312024

In due course

A toxic relationship ... A judge prone to boiling over ... Waxing ... Failure to get a grip on child-like temperament ... Pants on fire ... Some of the granular details ... Ginger Snatch reporting 

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Monday
Oct282024

Blue sky litigation 

Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium 

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Monday
Oct282024

Vale Percy Allan AM

Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art 

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Friday
Oct182024

Bring me the head of Diego Garcia

Chagossians and their lost homeland ... British courts fail to deliver ... Stolen rocks in the Indian Ocean ... Common law's inability to deal with state power ... Enter the ICJ ... Handover to Mauritius ... Septics rule the waves ... Ilois keep off ... Procrustes on the perils of piracy 

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Tuesday
Oct152024

Where's Dwight Eisenhower when you need him?

Supreme Court's new term ... Judicial culture war ... Motions for Trump's immunity determinations ... Cognitive decline on the election trail ... Judges waiting to muddle the election results ... Election countdown ... Plans for a new Supreme Court ... Our US legal correspondent Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Oct152024

Balkan intrigues

Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Serried ranks of lawyers before Acting Justice Hulme ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports 

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Monday
Oct142024

Drumgold cleared 

SCOOP ... Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council ... Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct ... Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons ... Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian 

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Thursday
Oct102024

All in good time ... 

Fresh delays ... Slow boats ... Justice Jenni's benchmark for lateness ... Reynolds v Higgins - court says we can have a redacted affidavit but don't publish it ... Sandy Groper reports 

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Wednesday
Oct092024

Extra bread and dripping

Costs breakthrough for migration lawyers who labour against the odds ... Filing fees and professional costs ahoy ... Full Federal Court overturns minister's miserable approach to costs for successful applicants ... Minister's gilded team of briefs fail to move the Fulls 

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