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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
Oct072024

Online incitements

• DateMonday, October 7, 2024

Riots in English cities fed by online misinformation about refugees ... Policing and prosecution policies ... Fast and furious processing of offenders ... Online Safety Act grapples with new challenges ... Increased policing of speech on tech platforms ... Hugh Vuillier reports from London 

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Thursday
Oct032024

Postcard from London

• DateThursday, October 3, 2024

Watching Starmer mince the sausages ... How to move a file from the inactive list ... Court's failed email notification system ...Sleep monitors want to measure the extent of lawyers' restfulness ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from London 

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Wednesday
Sep252024

Sore bottoms on the bench

, • DateWednesday, September 25, 2024

Birchings for judgments that went askew ... Appeal reasons from higher up the food chain ... FCA judge finds that a commercial loss is really a bargain ... Trauma at the Tribunal ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Sep232024

All hands on deck

• DateMonday, September 23, 2024

Sexual intercourse ... Onus of proof ... Loss of a ship at sea ... Dicta of Michael Lee in Lehrmann ... House of Lords and Sherlock Holmes ... Unsatisfactory witnesses ... Federal Circuit Court unable to make findings ... Case dismissed ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Wednesday
Sep182024

750 paragraphs later ...

• DateWednesday, September 18, 2024

Family dramas out west ... Justinian's solemn duty to point out where things go awry ... Rapid-rise family judge fails to explain ... Parenting orders revisited on appeal ... Order for equal parenting that nobody wanted ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep182024

Armidale Madge ejected

• DateWednesday, September 18, 2024

Local Court Madge goes head-to-head with "truculent" brief in finger licking case ... Shouting match ... Crossing the line ... "First warning" ... Transcript ... Historical note .. Reflections on defending vigorously ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep182024

Degrees of punishment

• DateWednesday, September 18, 2024

Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports 

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Wednesday
Sep112024

Tootsies with Planet Janet

• DateWednesday, September 11, 2024

Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen  

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Friday
Sep062024

Goings On

, • DateFriday, September 6, 2024

UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On 

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