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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
Oct212021

Willy Alstergren gets it right

• DateThursday, October 21, 2021

Final word from the Saloon ... Judge and barrister in chit-chats during trial in which both were involved ... Timeline of connections ... Drinkies, coffee and texting ... Not a good look ... Curious reasons from Full Family Court majority ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct192021

Nitram

, • DateTuesday, October 19, 2021

Miss Lumière is back in the cinema ... The alienated life of Martin Bryant ... A strange inheritance ...Guns and cash ... The story leading up to the Port Arthur massacre 

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Thursday
Oct142021

What's wrong with silk selection

• DateThursday, October 14, 2021

The NSW bar's senior counsel mechanism... A club with no rule of law ... Smoke and mirrors ... Failed applicants led up the garden path ... Distortions imposed by secrecy ... Sydney barrister, silk applicant and litigant against the bar association, David Smallbone, explains  

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Thursday
Oct142021

I Once Met ... Lord Denning

• DateThursday, October 14, 2021

As a law student Tom Kelly met Tom Denning ... Visiting lecture in Sydney ... Problem of the missing teeth ... No recollection of what was said ... Later realisation that the Master of the Rolls may not have been such a wonderful chap ... Confusion about the Dennings 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

The Toll of an intimidating legal threat

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Hobart law shop issued disgraceful defamation letter to young victim of sexual harassment ... Defamation bluster ... Abuse of power imbalance ... Effect on emotional wellbeing ... Aggravated damages ... Max Shanahan reporting 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

Ominous agenda of SCOTUS' supermajority

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Stonewalling the January 6 investigation ... Obstruction of justice is flavour of the season ... Midterm dangers ... Huge report on attempted subversion of the DoJ ... Supreme Court docket ... "State secrets" ... Legal theory in support of election heist ... From Washington Roger Fitch reports 

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Tuesday
Oct122021

MPs clip SA ICAC in record time

• DateTuesday, October 12, 2021

The integrity wars continue ... ICACs everywhere under assault ... South Australian politicians eviscerate the state's anti-corruption body ... Strange timing ... Looking after the patch ... Attorney General investigated over possible conflicts ... Max Shanahan reporting

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Wednesday
Oct062021

Bar's health report

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

NSW bar ... Covid creates a different world for barristers ... Can it ever be the same again? ... Clinging on ... The chambers model's uncertain future ... Expenses trimmed ... Curate's egg ... Some parts thriving ... Younger briefs need helping hands ... JJJ hearings 

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Wednesday
Oct062021

I once met ... Arnold Schwarzenegger

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

Communications and branding guru and former ABC producer Julian Canny met Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s ... The briefest interview that ever made it to air ... Arnie at "optimum extension" ... Aunty's scratched footage 

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