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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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      October 7 can and should be remembered by Israelis and by Palestinians as marking the commencement of the genocide ... Greg Barns SC
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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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Sep042024

Election muddling

• DateWednesday, September 4, 2024

Mounting frenzy ... Democrats produce a Black Swan moment ... Trump's own goals ... Australia's most toxic export ... Murdoch - the man who gave us Trump ... Plans for a new "steal" campaign ... Republican judges  meddling in the election ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Tuesday
Sep032024

Letter from Blighty

• DateTuesday, September 3, 2024

Filling the pauses - magistrate's messaging addiction during hearings ... Algerian boxer (he/him) sues X for cyber-bullying - gender experts punch below the belt ... Judge slapped with misconduct finding over 16 month delay in costs ruling ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from London 

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Tuesday
Sep032024

A judge created fantasy

• DateTuesday, September 3, 2024

The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Sanctity of the monarch ... Procrustes inveighs 

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Wednesday
Aug282024

Roll call for silk

• DateWednesday, August 28, 2024

109 NSW barristers have their hands up for silken acknowledgement ... Bar's secret list for 2024 unmasked ... Stampede to exit the junior bar ... Finery ... Embroidery ... The annual Silk Bazaar ... Scoop 

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Wednesday
Aug212024

'Olo, 'olo, 'olo 

• DateWednesday, August 21, 2024

Senior Member of the AAT's broadside against respected migration lawyers ... Accusations of dishonesty and lacking integrity ... Claim that lawyers are minting money from worthless case ... Complaints lodged ... Appeal to come ... Dismay ripples through the trade 

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Friday
Aug092024

Latest intrigues

, • DateFriday, August 9, 2024

Banana Benders and the politics of judicial selection ... Tas Bar votes against Royal gongs ... Vic Bar's new talk shop ... International law - the ABA ducks the hard questions ... Theodora's Goings On ...  

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Thursday
Aug082024

Judges on the ropes

• DateThursday, August 8, 2024

Hellish judgment from the Circuit Court ... Riparian water rights ... Wars of the 21st century ... Litigants and dangerous sexual offender left in limbo by WA Supremes ... From our Courtside Correspondent 

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Tuesday
Aug062024

Letter from London

• DateTuesday, August 6, 2024

Swearing during ethics exam likely to bring the profession into disrepute ... Rwanda on ice ... Magistrate ticked off for butting into animal cruelty discourse ... Charles tells parliament about a battery of 40 Bills and the flowering of economic growth ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes from the Old Dart 

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Monday
Aug052024

Gone fishing

• DateMonday, August 5, 2024

Native Title Act ... Fishing rights ... Abalone principally reserved for the Chinese market ... State fishing laws breached by Indigenous fishers ... NSW and South Australian appeal courts differ on the "legal burden" of defendants and their native title qualifications ... Comity ... Something for the Saloon to resolve ... Procrustes, the fisherman's friend, reports 

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