Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
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 >>
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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 >>
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 >>
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, August 28, 2020 Novichok comes to England ... The story of Putin's hit men trying to take out a former double agent ... A dab on the door handle ... Lockdown and fear as police and health experts struggle to contain this most deadly of nerve agents ... Alexi Navalny the latest victim of state ordered poisoning ... Miss Lumière files from well behind the front line
Leverhulme • Thursday, August 27, 2020 Lords, ladies and gentlemen ... Pandemic reading ... Leverhulme in London gets to grips with two books from top-of-the tree English judges ... Sir Richard Henriques with From Crime to Crime and Lord Brown's Playing Off the Roof and Other Stories ... Giving Jonathan Sumption a poke in the eye ... Sensible chaps providing a respite in a shouty world
Goings On ..., Theodora • Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Covid-19 updates from Level 29 Aickin Chambers ... Freedoms should be restored ... Death rates confined to oldies ... Missives to Prof. Brett Sutton seeking projections ... "Cytokine storm" not wished for ... Beautiful charts and graphs ... And, appeal judges in Sydney smile on a solicitor the Law Society wanted binned ...Theodora on her rounds
City Desk • Monday, August 24, 2020 Robin and his merry men ... The Tamil takes up a senior position at the Rule of Law Institute bringing with him a fresh approach - e.g. people should be locked up even when they are acquitted ... "Nice legal arguments" are the enemies of the rule of law ... Exciting breakthrough: judges should allow confessions made under duress ... Theodora reports
On The Couch • Thursday, August 20, 2020 The nun who is on the battlements for Bernard Collaery and Witness K ... Relentless organiser, protester, and campaigner ... East Timor's long struggle and the all too late engagement of Australia ... The "Act of No Choice" in West Papua ... Progressive politics and the Catholic Church ... Eggs, carrots and leftovers ... Devisor of cunning schemes ... Sister Susan Connelly is on Justinian's Couch
City Desk, Polly Peck • Monday, August 17, 2020 Leading hacks at The Australian have waged war on Professor Jenny Hocking and her research into the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government by governor general Kerr ... The archived letters clearly confirm the Palace's involvement ... It is The Australian's version that is in need of repair ... Michael White dismantles the claims about Hocking's "conspiracy theory"
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, August 10, 2020 Trump's fresh rampage ... Taking the USA beyond proto-authoritarianism ... A chaotic post-election scenario ... Cheating might save the day ... Flouting the Supreme Court's rulings ... The odour of corruption ... Reichstag fires and the president's brown shirts ... Absentee voting and the postal system ... Our Man in Washington Roger Fitch reports