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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
May172021

Noteworthy decision

Billing ... Ebsworth refused to hand over file notes to client ... Client's bills paid by bank ... Property of the file notes ... For whose benefit were the file notes created? ... No charge code in billing system for file notes ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
May172021

Accessory to the swordsman

Prosecutor on the ropes ... Court finds murder prosecution was unreasonable ... Unstable witness the basis of "case theory" ... Witness alleges mistreatment by DPP ... Evidence withheld ... Offender recovers legal fees ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
May142021

RBG reincarnated

Insights into the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Towards a More Perfect Union ... The great sex discrimination abolitionist ... A supreme intellect at work ... Braham Dabscheck reviews a collection of RGB's speeches and key cases ... Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue 

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Friday
May072021

The Porter Principle

I'll show you mine but no-one should see yours ... Porter struggling with too much baggage ... Untoward allegations about Riverview branch of the bench ... Court anonymises another lawyer in strife ... Double billing at the Law Society ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
May062021

Ridd's reef

The Peter Ridd case hits the High Court ... James Cook University's termination of an academic's employment ... The freedom to say whatever you like ... Free speech and all that ... Being beastly about other academics ... Promoting views contrary to mainstream science ... Hero of the climate deniers ... Untangling the Code of Conduct and the Enterprise Agreement ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Tuesday
May042021

Leverhulme's Letter from Blighty

Innocent until proven guilty, unless it's Boris Johnson ... No. 10 home decorations scandal ... Poor PM has to pay the light bill ... Complex politically correct card game ... Lockdown officially ends next month ... Snippets from High Court judge Sir Harry Ognall (RIP) 

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Friday
Apr302021

Suppressed tendencies

Depression and suppression ... Bring on the psychiatrists ... Special pleading for special people ... Identities scrubbed from the record ... Open justice takes the hindmost ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Apr302021

News that won't fit

No comment on whether NSW lawyers are police sources ... Schmo's mate the Police Commissioner has solved the Porter case, once and for all ... Attorney General adopts multiple positions on the Walama Court ... Rule of Law Institute planning to expose schoolies to fresh ideas about the courts ... Slump on coronial activities ... Theodora lays on her hands 

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Friday
Apr302021

The United States vs Billie Holiday

The FBI's obsession with Strange Fruit ... Music from the devil ... War Against Drugs ... Reluctance to give up lynching ... Un-American activities ... All that jazz ... Hoover on the case ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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