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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 >> 

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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 >> 

 

 

Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

, • DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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Wednesday
Oct052022

Exceptional circumstances

, • DateWednesday, October 5, 2022

Where's the sunshine? ... Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks ... Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings ... The hurdle is already unnecessarily high ... What reputational damage? ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct042022

Jayne gets High

• DateTuesday, October 4, 2022

Jayne Jagot ... A humble non-silk ... She reached for the stars ... A serious case of the smarts ... Identified by Mark Dreyfus at least seven years ago ... Significant judgments ... High Court test in Chelmsford looming ... Rarely without trousers ... Theodora reports 

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Saturday
Oct012022

The Mason-Katz Doctrine

• DateSaturday, October 1, 2022

Appointments to AAT ... Questions of constitutional invalidity ... Pre-election Coalition gifts ... Unsuitable appointments ... Dreyfus responds ... Former judges raise issues of legitimacy ... Extended and overlapping terms ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Sep302022

Down with the Magyar judges

• DateFriday, September 30, 2022

How Viktor Orbán and Hungary's right wing populists have choked the independence of the judiciary ... Legislative "reforms" ... Step-by-step creation of an "Illiberal-Christian Democracy" ... Constitutional Court neutered ... Roadmap to autocracy ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep232022

Recusal report

• DateFriday, September 23, 2022

Department of bad looks ... Defamation judge in WA refuses to step aside from a trial in which she had previously worked for the plaintiff's counsel ... Non-disclosure of prior working relationship ... Cherry picking ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep222022

News from on High

• DateThursday, September 22, 2022

Latest Simon Steward reversal ... 6-0 finding by the High Court ... Fourth time on the outer ... What went wrong? ... Selection process not up to scratch ... Plus, the inquiry into Brother Scott's multiple ministries ... Fortunately, a retired member of the Saloon is available for the heavy lifting ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep212022

Round up the usual suspects

• DateWednesday, September 21, 2022

Lifting a necklace and $20 ... High risk detention swings into action ... High Court sprinkles more fairy dust on executive imprisonment ... Alarming rate of Indigenous incarceration in WA made worse ... Political populism ... Procrustes examines the "feel safe" factor 

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