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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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Jun222021

Decree nisi

• DateTuesday, June 22, 2021

Polling underway at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Whether to decamp from the Law Council ... Facts and figures in dispute ... Secret correspondence from lofty sources ... Emails and messages getting more heated ... Contentions ... Cases for stay and go 

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Monday
Jun212021

Clive Palmer QC

• DateMonday, June 21, 2021

Palmer in the High Court fighting for his $28 billion ... Taking the State of Western Australia to the cleaners ... Nuremberg trials ... Martin Luther King ... Rule of law ... Clive wants his iron ore ... Tears and emotion unparalleled in the court's history ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on proceedings before an awestruck bench 

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Thursday
Jun172021

Strengthening the snippets

• DateThursday, June 17, 2021

Nixing the High Court on access to criminal intelligence ... Untested nuggets on bad character ... Impugning people on a need to know basis ... From bikie gangs to deportations ... Procrustes kisses the common law principles goodbye 

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Tuesday
Jun152021

Gerry and the pacemakers

• DateTuesday, June 15, 2021

The Federal Court reworks its approach to asylum seekers ... Punitive detention ... Government failure to deport leads to award of damages ... Deportation with damages ... High Court gazes at the tea leaves ... Janek Drevikovsky looks at the latest cases 

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Monday
Jun142021

Tiger by the tail

• DateMonday, June 14, 2021

It gets worse for The Christian ... Celebrity Sue's submission rejected ... Now she and her former client have to apportion costs they are required to stump-up for Jo Dyer ... Adopting a "neutral" position does not mean an escape from liability for costs ... Artemus Jones has more to say 

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Wednesday
Jun092021

Too much information

• DateWednesday, June 9, 2021

Federal government tightens the net on information in migration cases ... Applicants deprived of access to information held by the government ... Federal courts have to jump through hoops to examine "protected information" ... Another special from the Dutton-Pezzullo bunker ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Jun092021

Home truths about Porter and his settlement

• DateWednesday, June 9, 2021

Artemus Jones demolishes the Christian Porter's settlement fictions ... Worse to come for the failed litigant if the ABC's defence is made public ... His political position is likely to be untenable ... No vindication for his damaged "reputation" ... Now a lame duck when it comes to future defamatory attacks  

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Sunday
Jun062021

Banana Benders Bulletin

• DateSunday, June 6, 2021

Defrocked solicitor struggles to get back on the jam roll ... Unimpressive evidence ... Court unmoved by reference from silk ... Ecclesiastical law evoked in thwarted action against the Queen ... Hodgepodge of confusion ... Court vexed ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Thursday
Jun032021

Knees-up at the ALRC

• DateThursday, June 3, 2021

The Australian Law Reform Commission sends not so happy greetings on the birthday of the Corporations Act ... Mother, father and son in dialogue ... The youngster had put on weight, lost his way, hasn't caught up ... The commission tries new methods to draw attention ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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