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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
Apr292022

Trump judges rule the roost

Unqualified judicial appointments prop-up Republican agenda ... Gerrymanders tip democracy off its perch ... Tame media recycles the fictions ... CJ Roberts changes sides ... Government torture back on the rack ... America the not-so-beautiful ... Roger Fitch,  Our Man in Washington, reports 

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Thursday
Apr212022

Freeing judges to be human

Sifting the digital histories of lawyers headed to the judiciary ... Social media engagement that shows a life led more fully may also act as a disqualification ... Judges being louche as youngsters is not something we're used to ... We should adapt, otherwise the selection pond gets smaller ... From Nina Dillon Britton 

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Wednesday
Apr202022

At the Vladitorium

It has been headline time for Vlad the Impaler ... Esteemed employee struck off the jam roll ... Atanaskovic Hartnell even wanted to charge the client for tracking his stolen money ... Then there was the Elizabeth Kelly case ... The bully division ... Fear of managing partner's tendency to "denigrate" and hold "grudges" ... Max Shanahan and Henry Chen report 

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Friday
Apr152022

No tickets on him

Barrister with personality issues ... Plying the trade while unticketed ... Multiple breaches ... Nose thumbed at authority of the court ... Criminal contempt ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Apr142022

Regulatory poodle

ASIC ... Corporate watchdog with muted bark ... Frydenberg's defenestration of Hayne's work ... Major lapses not investigated ... Unhelpful judicial decisions ... Shareholders and the public in peril ... Henry Chen reports 

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Wednesday
Apr132022

Free association

Former judge's associate wants compensation ... Relationship with judge ... Claims she was ashamed and humiliated after Supreme Court intervention ... Court process likely to be examined by equal opportunity authority ... Judges' discomforted by unfortunate turn of events ... From our Tasmanian Affairs desk 

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Friday
Apr082022

Is all really fair in Love and Thoms?

Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken suspicion based on citizenship status ... Migration Act ... Background, arguments and implications ...Difficult challenge for the High Court ... Codey Swadling reports 

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Thursday
Apr072022

Seeds planted

The slow growing variety ... Climate litigation ... Duty of care ... Sharma case ... Full Feds reluctant to meddle with minister's coal mine approval ... Assumption that politicians can make "wise policy" ... More climate cases in the wings ... Torres Strait case ... Call for bold politicians and brave judges ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Apr012022

Exquisite finery

UK Supremos flee Hong Kong's top appeal court ... Judicial independence in the hands of Australian retirees ... Catching Collaery ... Preposterous post-nominals ... AAT gets a top-notch Callinan ... Peace breaks out at Vic's bar ... Theodora reports 

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