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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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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
Sep152020

Can I Kiss You?

A scholar specialising in comedies from the Restoration and post-Restoration period has unearthed a hitherto unpublished work by a little-known writer of the period, Lady Georgina Brandis ... The title, "Can I Kiss You?" is drawn from indiscreet goings on in the royal court at the time ... Any resemblance to recent events, or persons living or dead, is purely coincidental 

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Friday
Sep112020

Up-to-date with Dyson

The Dyson Heydon allegations produced a torrent of new policies governing behaviour and manners ... Hands off ... Safer workplaces ... No complaints to the wallopers ... No fresh High Court investigations ... Pathways for survivors ... Help with the drinks ... Still a hot lunch at The Australian Club ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Sep102020

Sonja Stewart

Meet the new CEO of the Law Society of NSW ... The first woman and the first Indigenous Australian to run the largest legal profession organisation in the country ... Long experience in public service and management ... Critical time for lawyers ... Constitutional change ... Uluru Statement from the Heart ... Family, Tim Tams, and a better Constitution ... Sonja Stewart is on Justinian's Couch 

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Wednesday
Sep092020

Sovereign lawyer

Law Society's puts anti-lockdown lawyer on notice ... Conduct rules in play ... Bring it on ... Swollen crowdfunded war chest ... Anti-Vac ... Threats and tirades ... Calling on the AFP to prosecute the Premier of Victoria for "treason" ... "Nuremberg law" ... Alan Zheng reports on the cult of celebrity 

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Tuesday
Sep082020

Reelecting the thief-in-chief

US elections ... Republican plots to steal the outcome ... Supreme Court in the wings ... Declaration of an election "emergency" ... Prospects of state and federal criminal indictments ... Fictions at the Republican National Convention ... Long-term Washington hand Roger Fitch reports 

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Friday
Sep042020

Move over Sal

Parenting case before Judge Guy Andrew of the Circus Court ... Brute on the bench ... Is mentoring all there is? ... Horrifying transcript ... How did this abusive creature end up as a judge? ... A fortiori ... Federal judicial commission absent without leave ... Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports 

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Thursday
Sep032020

Justice Judith Kelly

President of the Judicial Conference of Australia speaks about the burning issues for the judiciary ... Attacks on judges ... Judicial selection ... The work of the JCA ... Her frustrations as a judge ... The benefits of a bar fridge on the back verandah ... Curried eggs on toast ... Justice Judith Kelly from the Northern Territory Supreme Court is on Justinian's Couch 

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Wednesday
Sep022020

Police wear the political pants

The militarisation of police ... Police have become too strong for politicians to handle ... Hothouse atmosphere ... Death and shootings in Minneapolis and Kenosha ... Malarkey in Western Australia ... Police unions stand by their shooters and chokers ... Citizens whinging when the town burns down ... Procrustes on what happens when citizens turn a blind eye to excess 

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Monday
Aug312020

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Governments need to be more charitable and fix the fundraising rules for charities ... Nightmarish over-regulation that adversely affects small charities, in particular ... Millions of dollars diverted to comply with different laws in each jurisdiction ... Tom Manousaridis had the goods 

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