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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
Dec152020

Tale of two cities

Nicola Gobbo and the wreckage in her wake ... Corruption of the criminal justice system not confined to Victoria ... Tom Kelly traces the recent history of graft and corruption that flowered in New South Wales ... Police, lawyers and crims in cahoots ... Evolutionary differences - Sydney and Melbourne ... Different categories of criminal defence lawyers ... The role of public lawyers in NSW 

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Monday
Dec142020

Clochemerle-sur-Torrens

South Australia magistrate locked-up after doing an Einfeld ... Briefs told by SA bar president to keep quiet ... Speaking out on sexual harassment and other unpleasantness found to be unprofessional ... Appeal in the wings ... Curtain rises on a new court of appeal 

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Friday
Dec112020

Last days of Nero

Pardon me ... Trump's Dolchstosslegende ... Republicans' strong electoral showing down ballot ... Tejano vote ... Victory for Koch candidates ... Census case in Supreme Court ... The wreckage continues ... Oil leases in Alaska ... Last minute federal executions ... Roger Fitch, our man in Washington, reports 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

No soft balls here

Important cases from The Dart ... The law of cricket ... Adults using a proper cricket ball ... The defence of illegality ... Guns in court ... Leverhulme's tribute to lord justice of appeal Roy Beldam 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

Those wicked press lords

Critiquing Bathurst CJ on defamation law ... World view from the plaintiff's corner ... Large corporate media interests trying to set the reform agenda ... Meddling with the common law ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Friday
Dec042020

Close to home

Rumours scotched that Family Court CJ is shifting chambers to Hobart ... Wild oysters are calling ... Hobart docket ... Sheriff leaves a door open at Nowra Court House - receiving more severe punishment than the escapee ... Top sheriff birched ... Attorney General goes schtum ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Dec022020

Burley Griffin's notebook

Ohh, that judgment ... ACT Law Society asks, "where are the reasons?" ... Judge scrambles out of retirement to deliver another door-stopper ... Profuse apologies for the loose ends ... Sexual assault by law lecturer means he's not fit and proper ... In London fresh findings about drunken sex and professional misconduct 

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Monday
Nov302020

Back to a brighter yesterday

Ticket for change sets about scrapping the changes ... Jabots in a tangle at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Email meltdowns ... Burning questions ... No nous for Nous ... Blandification of the bar ... "World class" barristerial biffo ... Peach Melba explains what went down 

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Tuesday
Nov242020

Graduating in the time of Covid

The exams are complete ... The degree finished ... But where's the riotous fun? ... A modest valedictory event, without dancing ... Graduation ceremony in doubt ... Preparing for a "man's world" with "Women in Law" ... Barely Legal's Anna Kretowicz blogs from Queensland  

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