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Friday
Jan292016

Movements at The Map

• DateFriday, January 29, 2016

Disco Dave quits the Supremes so as to get more time on the dance floor ... Local bookie gives odds for the field of possible replacements ... Top family law man spanked by the bureau for muddling his dates ... The Map of Tasmania 

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Wednesday
Jan272016

Synchronicity

• DateWednesday, January 27, 2016

Duplication of judicial handiwork by the same judge in a separate judgment - without citation or acknowledgement ... Trouble if a student did it ... Judges are free to "phone it in" ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Thursday
Jan212016

Changing the rules

• DateThursday, January 21, 2016

Citizens United has transformed the landscape of campaign finance in the USA ... How the US trashed its prisoner-of-war obligations and clung onto Guantanamo Bay ... Rupturing the Geneva Conventions ... Impunity for the Pentagon under loose standards ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Tuesday
Jan192016

The dark art of sham litigation

• DateTuesday, January 19, 2016

Fraudulent litigation ... Bodgy debts to circumvent real creditors ... Defamation actions to wash money ... Moldovan courts to the rescue of Russian gangsters ... Italian divorces in Maidenhead 

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Wednesday
Dec232015

Mapping the Obeid case

• DateWednesday, December 23, 2015

In and out of Eddie's office ... Secrets of the safe ... Walking ATM out of service ... Map of Tasmania - the sad case of Adrian Hall ... NSW ODPP at conferenceville ... Trying to digest the Robert Xie trial ... Another round to Chris Dale  

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Monday
Dec212015

Wigging up ... wigging down

• DateMonday, December 21, 2015

Vic County Court's schedule of judicial wig preferences ... Study it carefully ... Yarraside bar's female silk defence ... Bluto up-to-speed when it comes to concurring with other's reasons ... Seasons greetings from the conveyancer general 

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Saturday
Dec192015

Goody Two Shoes to the rescue

• DateSaturday, December 19, 2015

NSW law bulletin ... The AG and the defenestrated Law Reform Commission ... Getting Alan Cameron to breathe life into a comatose commission ... Criminal trial disgrace in the Dizzo ... CCA cranky about underfunded trial courts ... Two-Shoes Upton throws $20 million at the problem  

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Thursday
Dec172015

US rewrites the Geneva Conventions

• DateThursday, December 17, 2015

US Supreme Court's dreadful legacy ... Fifteenth anniversary of Bush v Gore - the decision that "changed everything" ... The environmental hazards of international "trade" agreements ... Guantánamo prisoner held for 13 years in a case of mistaken identity ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Monday
Dec142015

It's Christmas (Island)

• DateMonday, December 14, 2015

Maurice Blackburn wins the right to interview "entrusted people" with "protected information" for Christmas Island class action ... Chink opens in punitive Border Force secrecy provisions ... Jack Forrest to the rescue 

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