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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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      Blood out of stone ... Ruthless Linda Reynolds dragging David Sharaz into bankruptcy
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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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Nov212023

Vale Mon

• DateTuesday, November 21, 2023

Tribute to Monique St John ... Justinian's Marianne dies ... Showgirl, muse and late night companion to leading lights in the judiciary ... Front cover privacy exclusive ... Sir Murray Rivers embarrasses the Melbourne establishment 

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Monday
Nov202023

London Calling

• DateMonday, November 20, 2023

The UK - it's a reality TV show ... Dave Cameron back in ... Prosecutor in trouble for pursuing an affair with the defendant ... Celebrity hacking trial against the Daily Mail pushes ahead ... Supreme Court sinks the Rwanda solution ... Solicitor binned after dangling a job that didn't exist ... HM spells out law 'n' order agenda ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty 

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Thursday
Nov162023

Letter from Washington

• DateThursday, November 16, 2023

Trump ramping up his next term ... Wrecking crew of lawyers on his team ... Authoritarian agenda ... New season for the Supreme Court ... Gun rights for perpetrators of domestic violence ... Texas prohibits wealth taxes - forever ... Entrenched voting distortions ... The new Speaker - a Christian Taliban ... Roger Fitch files 

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Wednesday
Nov152023

What next for the stateless?

• DateWednesday, November 15, 2023

Indefinite immigration detention overturned ... Parts of the Migration Act out of bounds for politicians ... Procrustes examines the Saloon's big decision - citing Felix Frankfurter, Donald Rumsfeld, WB Yeats and the Curran tax scheme 

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Thursday
Nov092023

Porridge - but hold the natural justice

• DateThursday, November 9, 2023

Procrustes takes apart his favourite judges and their judgments ... Prisoners and their procedural fairness ... The absolute discretion of the screws ... Revisiting Sir Percy Spender ... Coffee on hold 

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Wednesday
Nov082023

Star of the sea emits a twinkle

• DateWednesday, November 8, 2023

Stella Maris ... The Northern Territory Judicial Commission slowly swings into action ... Supreme Court judge to be investigated for "malice" ... Allegations of bullying and delayed judgments ... Mentors and councillors ahoy ... Creating an investigation unlikely to deliver a scalp ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Wednesday
Nov082023

Creative possibilities for the law of torts

• DateWednesday, November 8, 2023

Barbara McDonald - the high priestess of torts and privacy ... Former torts law professor at the University of Sydney ... What's on the horizon for the development of privacy and other torts ... The bureaucratisation of scholarship and academic life ... Life at the academy ... Interview with Ariana Haghighi 

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Monday
Nov062023

Blood and greed

• DateMonday, November 6, 2023

Book review ... Killing for Country: A Family Story ... The colonial land grab ... Entitlement capitalism and the transformation of Australia in the 19th century ... The killing fields of the Native Police ... Failure of the law ... The foundations of a nation's character ... Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck   

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Thursday
Nov022023

Plenty on the plate

, • DateThursday, November 2, 2023

Lehrmann's TV strategy ... Publicity please, but not for Toowoomba ... London lawyers still coining the Bell fallout ... More cases of judicial foot-dragging ... Law Society CEO mystery ... Tickle up ... Candles on Frosty's cake ... Theodora reports 

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