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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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Apr272021

Our man in Washington

Biden moves well to the left of Obama and the Clintons ... Attorney General Merrick Garland starts repair job at the Department of Justice ... Weeding out the Trump "burrowers" ... Implications for Guantánamo "war prisoners" in light of Afghanistan withdrawal ... Republicans push ahead with electoral rorts ... More Trump corruption emerging ... Roger Fitch's letter from America  

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Monday
Apr262021

Wet lettuce bulletin

Child porn solicitor gets chopped for trust fiddling ... Former lawyer spanked for signature irregularities ... Permission granted to act against former client ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from the Bureau se Spank 

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Monday
Apr262021

Lost in time

Elderly barrister out of tune with contemporary mores ... Left without a chair when the music stopped ... Spanked for sexual harassment of a junior female ... Confusion about "comforting gesture" ... Flippant remarks ... Arm around shoulder ... Unfunny jokes ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Monday
Apr192021

Burston out all over

Sexual harassment allegations from the cloacal underbelly of One Nation ... Former senator suing P. Hanson ... Former staffer also suing over alleged sexual harassment by ex-senator ... Deed of release - Commonwealth not liable ... Another scarifying experience of political life ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case  

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Monday
Apr192021

The line of duty

Coppers from Strike Force Raptor harass NSW country solicitor acting for a bikie ... Intimidation ... Stalked, shaken and stirred ... Prevented from representing the client ... A good wet lettuceing ... Law Society knocks on the commissioner's door ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Apr162021

Ben Roberts-Smith is Stoked

As Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan the war involving VC recipient Ben Robert-Smith heats up ... New allegations against the former soldier ... Defamation proceedings have not kyboshed fresh news breaks ... Kerry Stokes' role as a litigation funder ... Hero worship knows no bounds ... Important trial for journalism and public interest reporting 

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Thursday
Apr082021

Theodora in the trenches

Robe row ... Election barrister endorses tanning mousse ... It's April 1 at the WA bar ... Federal Court's Yarraside women's problem ... Rule of Law cult overturns Kunc opinion ... From Theodora 

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Tuesday
Apr062021

The Courier

The Cold War and its spies ... Getting military secrets out of the Soviet Union ... Cuban missile crisis ... Khrushchev unhinged ... Let's Twist Again ... How MI6 and the CIA betrayed their informant ... Benedict Cumberbatch, as the ordinary Greville Wynne, comes to the "rescue" ... Miss Lumière at the flicks

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Thursday
Apr012021

Appeal judges - the boiling frogs of Hong Kong

Hong Kong ... National Security Law ... Court of Final Appeal ... Judicial independence ... Are the non-permanent judges compromised? ... Reassessment following Spigelman's departure ... Australian judges cling on ... Alan Zheng reports 

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