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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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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 >> 


 

 

Sunday
Jun182017

What comes next?

Letter from Cambridge ... Hannah Ryan's Commencement edition ... Rousing calls to arms from Mark Zuckerberg and Sally Yates ... The rain ... Anxious parents ... Stocking crisis ... Farewell Harvard 

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Friday
Jun162017

Fitch lets fly

Our Man in Washington ... Republican anarchy ... The petulant presidency ... Wrecking ball through democratic institutions ... The conflicted cabinet ... Reinforcement from Fox News ... Foxes in the chook house ... Hanging Judge Gorsuch 

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Friday
Jun162017

Thoughts from a take home student

The weird remoteness of law school learning ... The way in which students' skills are assessed is out of step with the real world ... Hannah Wootton, at the end of her law studies, wonders how it will all work in practice 

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Wednesday
Jun142017

Mountain law

Rich and colourful parade of judiciary in Mt Hagen ... Thousands of cases languish ... Remorseless giant LexisNexis swallows another case law analytics business ... Statelessness gets a handout ... Department of Immigration's unique interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act ... Lawyer's defamation appeal bites the dust 

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Monday
Jun122017

Mrs May's well hung parliament

London Calling ... British election analysis from Leverhulme, who knew the result as soon as the polls closed ... Wot's next for Mother Theresa? ... In bed with nutters from the DUP ... Will "Sir" Lynton hand back his Tory gong? ... Corbyn's campaign ... Brexit snafu ... A new election in autumn looks possible 

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Sunday
Jun112017

The story of a murderous charmer

Leading politician's trial on a charge of conspiracy to murder ... The establishment cover-up ... The case that made George Carman QC - a barrister of destructive and volatile instincts ... Britain's most notorious summing-up by a trial judge ... Book review 

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Friday
Jun092017

Positive masculinity

St Paul's College headless ... College relents and signs-up for Sydney Uni "cultural review" ... Dozy council and warden drop the ball in the face of another brat-frat outrage 

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Monday
Jun052017

Publish and perish

The big law book publishers get a blast from author and editor Hugh Selby ... Overpriced products poorly marketed ... Impenetrable websites ... Connecting perfunctorily with authors and customers 

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Friday
Jun022017

An offending system of youth justice

The Northern Territory provides a broken justice system for Indigenous children ... Under-funded, under-skilled and a failure of political will ... Hannah Wootton looks at evidence given to the NT royal commission on youth detention 

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