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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 >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Jun022021

Prince Albert the Good at Victoria's Court

Barrister leads solicitor astray ... Snappy correspondence sent to court registry officer seeking urgent hearing ... Attempt at forum shopping ... Allegations of impropriety against a judge ... Discourteous and provocative missives ... The gallows avoided by humble apologies and re-education ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Jun012021

Fitch's Washington

Trump's defeat sees the Republican gerrymander in full swing ... Moving the electoral goalposts ... Filibuster won't be busted ... Lies of the past paved the way for the Big Lie of today ... Military trials and the flouting of law ... The taint of torture ... The failure of Guantánamo ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Monday
May312021

Wreckage

The Christian Porter vanquished but delusional ... Convinced his humiliation is a triumph ... Woe ... Allegations remain unamended ... Where are the damages and the grovel? ... Settlement statement by ABC concedes nothing ... Porter the Pollie is finito ... Polly Peck reports 

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Sunday
May302021

Celebrity Sue

Ultimately, being a celebrity silk does not save the day ... Chrysanthou out of the Christian Porter battle ... Where now for the case? ... Rising costs, delays ... Financial vulnerability ... Unhelpful media commentary from the applicant ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Wednesday
May262021

Time flies when you're having ... 

Freshly minted from university ... Associateship beckons ... Interim job bailing water out of the leaky parole boat ... Delays and judicial reviews ... Barely Legal finds out about stuff never taught at university 

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Sunday
May232021

Porter's case runs amok

Dyer v Chrysanthou ... Porter stands by his brief as case gets bogged in interlocutory disputes ... Trouble for client when the lawyers become the main story ... Expense and delay do not assist Porter ... "Infection" of the legal team ... September trial date looking wobbly ... Defamation trial could clash with the electoral cycle ... Observations from Artemus Jones 

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Thursday
May202021

Onward Christian Soldiers

The Christian's defamation campaign has been sidetracked ... Now he's a respondent fighting to keep one of his barristers on the ticket ... Risk of misuse of confidential information ... Discovery ordered ... Who told others of concerns about potential conflict? ... Layer upon layer of contention before we get to D-Day 

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Wednesday
May192021

Wet lettucing for racist, homophobic vilification

NCAT hands out paltry penalty for "vile" tirade ... Distressing assault in Taree ... Vilification delivered from private property but held to be a "public act" ... Adverse psychological effect on Aboriginal elder ... No order for an apology because it would not be "sincere" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
May192021

Report from Hong Kong

What's going on with law and justice in Hong Kong ... Large number of accused in democracy clamp-down ... Special judges who accept subservient role ... Preliminary election regarded as subversion ... Legislative Council expected to be "patriotic" ... Newspaper proprietor in prison ... Text books being re-written ... Exodus accelerates ... From Our Man Clinging On In Hong Kong 

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