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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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Aug312023

Cossack's charge

• DateThursday, August 31, 2023

Hot potato ... Early leak of ACT criminal justice report ... Cossack insists he made no errors and didn't breach the Act ... Wants the chief minister to reflect and grovel ... Weighty correspondence released ... Flaws in the glass 

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Tuesday
Aug222023

Refreshments at the Saloon

• DateTuesday, August 22, 2023

Cheers ... New appointments to the High Court announced from Canberra ... Serious buttressing of brain power ... Lads and lasses from New South Wales in the ascendency ... The correct order restored ... From High Court watcher Montague Gummov 

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Monday
Aug212023

Accused felon at large

• DateMonday, August 21, 2023

The Washington and Atlanta indictments of Donald Trump ... A large number of lawyers as indicted gangsters ... History of unpunished Republican crimes ... First attempt to hold lawless politicians and operatives to account ... Quandaries and implications ... Possible defences ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Monday
Aug212023

English as the only language

• DateMonday, August 21, 2023

Miscarriage due to magistrate's intransigence on accused's language ... Need for an interpreter ... Strident views from the bench ... Other meanings ... Appeal ... Role of WA courts' Reconciliation Statement ... Magistrate's "demonstrated level of Aboriginal cultural competency" ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Thursday
Aug172023

Time is such an abstract concept

• DateThursday, August 17, 2023

More fodder from the delayed judgment mill ... Judicial torpor ... Two years and more to produce sausages ... Extended intervals between two events ... Who is keeping an eye on productivity rates? 

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Tuesday
Aug152023

NSW silk applicants for 2023

• DateTuesday, August 15, 2023

SCOOP ... Waving, not drowning ... Silk contestants at the starting line ... Full list of NSW senior counsel applicants for 2023 unveiled ... Annual beauty parade 

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Monday
Aug142023

Money for dirt

• DateMonday, August 14, 2023

Open Justice ... WA Supreme Court ... Iron Lady's suppression application nixed ... Carving up Pilbara mining tenements ... Litigation bonanza ... Making hay for at least three months ... Reputational harm and embarrassment ... Information already in the public domain ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Monday
Aug142023

Letter from London

• DateMonday, August 14, 2023

Fleet Street dramas ... Right to be forgotten takes on the news ... Cash for naughty pics ... Another press reptile pinged ... MailOnline hack suspended ... Options for Huw Edwards' litigation spree ... "My reputation has never been worse" ... From Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London 

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Tuesday
Aug082023

Another crash landing by Walter

DateTuesday, August 8, 2023

Early release of Sofronoff report sets off fresh chaos ... Bad move by Walter ... Denial of fairness ... Credibility of findings shot ... Another Cossack in the wings ... More litigation rushing towards us ... Theodora reports 

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