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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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Friday
Mar122021

Portergate

• DateFriday, March 12, 2021

Lawyers have to be fit and proper - why not the attorney general? ... Schmo Morrison's crack legal team on hand ... Silk emails the PM to set him straight ... Where to now with Porter? ... Polly Peck in Canberra 

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Thursday
Mar112021

It's moments like these you need Minties

• DateThursday, March 11, 2021

Piles of moolah at stake ... The Christian meddles in litigation with Minter's media clients ... "Purposes and values" gets rolled ... Onward march of the (Big) Swinging Dicks 

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Thursday
Mar112021

Happy families

• DateThursday, March 11, 2021

Judges bailing out of the family courts at an alarming rate ... Delirium over merged courts fiasco ... No sign of a functioning attorney general ... Two Wigs Willy running the shop from Hobart ... Depleated appeal division ... New FCFCA bureau de spank for judges ... Still no certainty for an ancient "black hole" case  

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Monday
Mar082021

Biloela family - a timeline

• DateMonday, March 8, 2021

Time doesn't fly in immigration detention ... A tortured path through Australia's visa regime for refugee applicants ... It's anything but Christmas ... A nine-year fight against cruelty and the law ... Janek Drevikovsky reviews the cases 

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Thursday
Mar042021

Porter in a storm

DateThursday, March 4, 2021

"It just didn't happen" ... But will it go away? ... Pushing through ... Holes in the case ... First law officer with an unresolved allegation of rape ... Career on hold, but ultimately kaput ... Polly Peck on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar022021

Alleged rapist on the cusp of a statement

• DateTuesday, March 2, 2021

Prêt à porter ... Horse in fetid stable ... Rule of Law ... Rule of the Jungle ... Political imperatives ... Statement expected in bold volte face ... Polly Peck reports

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Thursday
Feb252021

Beak bleat

• DateThursday, February 25, 2021

Madges under pressure ... NSW's chief beak Graeme Henson unhappy with slow government response to Local Court crisis ... Pleading for more resources on multiple occasions ... New appointments filling retirements ... 10 more Madges needed ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Feb232021

Appeal judges twiddle the knobs

• DateTuesday, February 23, 2021

Walter Mitty con artist gets lower sentence from the NSW CCA ... Ponzi schemer fleeced friends, lovers and whoever else he could get his hands on ... Deficient personality ... Original sentence excessive and the result of an unbalanced process ... Too much judicial emotion ... Pep-talk to the media on reporting sentences ... Victims still largely penniless ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Feb192021

Empty gaffs on Martin Place

• DateFriday, February 19, 2021

Covid puts a false gloss on chamber's accounts ... Directors in and out ... Explanatory memo to members ... Creative fiction and negative expenses ... Big pile of unpaid floor fees ... Refreshments cut 

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