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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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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 >> 

 

 

Saturday
Jan232021

Tribunal top-ups

• DateSaturday, January 23, 2021

Latest batch of AAT appointments ... Christmas delivery from The Christian ... A few lawyers and plenty of the faithful included ... A notable deputy president goes missing 

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Tuesday
Jan192021

Darwinian legacy

• DateTuesday, January 19, 2021

Survival of the fittest ...Alistair Wyvill cleared ... Eight year toxic Top End drama draws to a close ... Disciplinary Tribunal squelches NT Supreme Court judge and Stella Maris commissioner ... Pro Bono termination ... Procedural unfairness ... No finding of ulterior strategy ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Thursday
Jan142021

Murder at sea

, • DateThursday, January 14, 2021

Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation 

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Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

• DateTuesday, January 12, 2021
Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports 

Sunday
Jan102021

Madcap election litigation spree

• DateSunday, January 10, 2021

Republican lawyers wreaking damage on the legal profession and rule of law ... President Trump and the violation of federal laws on electoral interference and extortion ... Late impeachment in the wind ... Rioters seeking martyrdom ... Whither the republic? ... Roger Fitch reports from a wounded Washington  

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Tuesday
Jan052021

Slip, slop, slap

• DateTuesday, January 5, 2021

Tasmanian brief and the "ethnically" charged threat to international students ... Threat withdrawn ... Multiple texts at strange hours demanding payment of $650 ... You can't take Ipswich out of the man ... 5G conspiracies ... The former MP's "distinguished" political career saved his bacon ... Unprofessional conduct ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Dec242020

Law actually

• DateThursday, December 24, 2020

COVID fallout ... Step-by-step ... State-by-state ... Anna Kretowicz takes us through a year of gyrations, fashions and fear of missing out ... Pork pies from the pizza shop ... Scotty's moment in the sun ... Lockdowns ... Goodbye section 92 ... 'Straya, we love you 

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Wednesday
Dec232020

Close to you

• DateWednesday, December 23, 2020

Border commissar Mark McGowan ... The politics of WA's secessionist fantasies ... Section 92 in play ... Waiting for Palmer ... Conservative ideas to tame the ABC ... In the car with the Carpenters ... Procrustes tunes into dead white males

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Not him too ...

, • DateTuesday, December 15, 2020

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape in New York's Sofitel ... Victim monstered by lawyers ... Elaborate conspiracy theories ... The same old story ... Director General of the IMF blows-up a beautiful political future ... Miss Lumière on a peculiar French penchant 

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