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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 >> 


 

 

Saturday
May202023

The judicial conscience floats free

Recusal process splits the Saloon ... Who should consider a bias application? ... All over the shop on judicial "ethics" ... Challenge to the appearance of justice over its substance ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
May192023

Life in the chaos lane

Mental ailments strike prominent crime solicitor ... Teeth and leg problems ... Unconvincing submissions from colourful medicos ... Staff claiming unpaid money ... Law shop disarray ... Public protection out the window ... Ostrich-like behaviour ... Inability to open emails 

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Thursday
May112023

Stone the Crow

The sexual battery verdict against Trump ... Further peril pending ... Clarence Thomas in the pocket of reactionary benefactor ... Secret gifts sink the remnants of SCOTUS' ethical standing ... Ousting the veto power of state governors ... Voting limitations run riot ... Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Thursday
May112023

Laments from across the Nullarbor

Solicitors and women surging onto the bench in Western Australia ... Old timers incandescent ... Claims of inadequate trial experience for Supreme Court appointment ... Male silks overlooked ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
May092023

Wither pro bono?

There's no such thing as a free lunch ... And free lawyers are just as scarce ... Pro bono arrangement scrapped by SA appeal court ... Disincentive for lawyers to do the hard yards on wrongful conviction cases ... Hugh Selby writes 

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Sunday
May072023

Law of dispossession

Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at Yass ... An end to the grand piano ... An alternative consideration of New South Wales ... Review by Max Shanahan 

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Friday
Apr282023

We have Wood

Vic's Bar struggles with the Voice ... Should there be a position at all? ... Financial Review'slegal affairs man ticked off ... Old grizzlies out of the cage ... NSW bar run by "woke" mullahs ... More kero on the flames ... Peach Melba with Yarraside Yarns 

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Friday
Apr282023

Window ledges crowded in Phillip Street

Law Society staff and councillors jostle for space on the ledges as more flee the premises ... Regional Women Lawyers ruckus ... Concentration of power alienates young lawyers and smaller firms ... Escrow accounts for barristers create jitters ... Prospective streamlined discipline process ... Fresh hell ... From our intrepid reporter Theodora 

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Wednesday
Apr262023

Brandis era terror laws ripe for parody

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor urges abolition of continuing detention orders ... Risky risk assessment tool ... Critical review suppressed by Home Affairs ... Benbrika case ... Disproportionate Brandis-era terror laws ... Max Shanahan reports 

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