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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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Jul042017

The band that almost lost its disparagement

DateTuesday, July 4, 2017

In the era of disparagement, an "offensive" trademark gets a tick from SCOTUS ... Culture wars and the First Amendment ... KUNT ™ still too scandalous to register in Australia ... Subeta Vimalarajah on The Slant and "victims" reclaiming denigration 

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Tuesday
Jul042017

Who's next for flaying?

• DateTuesday, July 4, 2017

Procrustes lands blows on hapless hacks and pusillanimous politicians ... Bagging the unelected guardians ... Gillian Triggs ... Mark Weinberg ... Squelching Chris Kenny ... China looks to a new model: dictatorship plus the rule of law 

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Monday
Jul032017

Nuttall is lost

• DateMonday, July 3, 2017

Bribery of Queensland mines minister ... Solicitor not fit and proper to practice, but sufficiently fit and proper to stay on the jam roll ... The case of a high flying lawyer and banana bending businessman whose wax wings melted ... Lawyer who said he never wanted to practice again can now reapply after five years ... Sohini Mehta reports 

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Saturday
Jul012017

Stories from Dizzo World

• DateSaturday, July 1, 2017

Recent intriguing judgments from the NSW District Court ... Copper in sexual relationship with a vulnerable witness ... Lismore copper behaving badly ... Teenagers and tabloid rag ... Peta Leigh is courtside 

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Thursday
Jun292017

Blawging stateside

• DateThursday, June 29, 2017

Hannah Ryan in New York assembles the best and the brightest of the online legal commentariat ... Intellectuals, pundits, provocateurs, investigative journalists ... A fascinating hive of activity in the law space 

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Wednesday
Jun282017

Native title and Adani

• DateWednesday, June 28, 2017

Gautam Adani's problems cleared by rushed legislation ... McGlade decision reversed by parliament ... Registration of Indigenous Land Use Agreements without agreement of all native title claimants ... Elif Sekercioglu traces the development 

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Tuesday
Jun272017

Crimes against humanity

• DateTuesday, June 27, 2017

The Manus Island class action should not be the end of the matter ... Criminal possibilities arise under the Work Health and Safety Act ... Max Costello takes us through the Act and its possibilities to deliver justice to Manus Island and Nauru detainees 

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Friday
Jun232017

School for scandal

• DateFriday, June 23, 2017

Trust in the legal system ... Trust in politicians ... Grovel from MPs removes charge of scandalising the Yarraside Court of Appeals ... desperate politics ... Keeping alive the "blaze of glory" ... Own goal by Gorgeous George Brandis 

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Thursday
Jun222017

Tribunal tribulations

, • DateThursday, June 22, 2017

Dutton and News hacks take on the AAT, assisted by AG Brandis in the wings ... Political attack on the integrity of the tribunal ... Conflating terrorism with migration and refugee visa decisions ... Misinformation abounds ... Woeful times 

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