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Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >> 

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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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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 >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

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
Apr252023

Rock, scissors, paper

Admin law ... Power of the executive ... Reversing the AAT ... Latest thoughts from the Last Chance Saloon ... Smack for Doc. Donaghue ... Jagot seizes the moment ... Procrustes picks through the entrails of Davis v Minister for Immigration ... Plus, weirdness from Robert Gottliebsen 

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Thursday
Apr202023

Newsy person of the week

Debra Mortimer ... Coronation at the Federales ... Career highlights ... Opportunities taken ... Great cases of our time ... Champion of good causes ... Animals and children ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Apr192023

Westerly wind

Latest round of judicial hand washing ... Sal's failed case transfer to the Feds ... Lack of resources ... Industrial relations, Nazi style ... Perth lawyer off the hook in bikie-related false statement conspiracy ... Groper reports from Perth 

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Monday
Apr172023

Into the sunset

Dramatic bust up of Adelaide law partnership ... Booming business in Hong Kong ... Lure of Mishcon de Reya ... Hunt through the emails ... Full Feds on the case ... Fiduciary duties ... Misleading and deceptive conduct ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Apr142023

Blowing cobwebs out of the AG's department

Attorney General Dreyfus' recent agenda ... Busy bee ... Consultations ... Roundtables ... Reviews .. Reforms ... Legislation ... The Voice ... Appointments ... Speeches ... Polly Peck tallies the score 

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Wednesday
Apr122023

Leeser's miserable Voice

Weasels of the Liberal Party ... His Master's Voice ... Leeser's Lesser Voice ... Moderates in a pickle ... Spoiled for choice ... Furphies and figments ... Polly Peck reports 

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Thursday
Apr062023

Bureau de Spank

Legal delinquents across the land were denied hopes for Lenten salvation ... Variously censured, stripped, smacked and suspended (not from a cross) ... Max Shanahan with the latest professional lapses  

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Thursday
Apr062023

Our Man in Washington

Lawyers, guns & money ... Trump turns his indictment into a cash cow ... More guns for Republicans ... Gun originalism ... Judicial manipulation ... Torture memos ... Review of detainee treatment ... Wisconsin Supreme Court on the move ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Friday
Mar312023

On the wilder shores of the law

Hawaii the jurisdiction of choice for Australia's sovereign citizens ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with "pseudolaw" ... Fruitcake theories ... Conspiracies writ large ... Deluge of cases 

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