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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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Jul092020

Canberra taxi drivers are dangerous men

The ashes of Dyson Heydon's standing scattered far and wide ... We're ashamed ... Tally of the catastrophe ... Retreat to the club ... No more blind eyes ... Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves ... Character, law, and judging ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

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Friday
Jul032020

Lawn Order

Bulletin from the Bear-Pit ... Recasting the top job at LECC ... Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons ... Crime and insanity ... Tendency evidence gets tweaked ... Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission ... Answers on notice ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street 

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Friday
Jun262020

Dicey - updates

LATE EXTRA ... A family take-home guide to fresh fallouts from the Dyson Heydon revelations ... Heydon's harassments ... Civil and criminal possibilities ... Who knew what, when ... Gleeson keeps schtum ... Previous cover-ups at the top ... Sex harassment policies getting a hasty work-over ... Strange wrinkles ... Ginger Snatch updates the drama 

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Wednesday
Jun242020

"You don't know what kind of creeps are out there"

Dicey Heydon ... Time and tide in the affairs of men ... Industrial scale sexual harassment from the High & Mighty ... "Inadvertent and unintended" ... Who knew what and when ... More to come ... The masked man ... From Ginger Snatch, who associates with judges 

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Tuesday
Jun232020

The man who couldn't see

Dyson's demise ... Fresh developments ... Civil and criminal cases in the wind ... AG says it's up to the High Court to handle any demand for compensation ... Field day for trade unions ... What was he thinking? ... Seismic social changes passed unnoticed ... Dangers lie in wait for Heydon's intellectual legacy ... Artemus Jones comments  

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Wednesday
Jun172020

Judge of the moment

Perram J in top form ... Cooking on the Central Coast ... Employment law ... Missing wages ... Exemplary amateur conduct called into question ... Assistance from a non-practitioner ... Unhelpful ... Beastly threats ... Small case, big fry ... Remarks sent to the Law Society ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Jun162020

The republic in flames

Trump has found his Roy Cohn ... The Pussy Grabber waves a bible ... Sacking inspectors general en masse ... Grifters united ... Attempts to politicise the armed services ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Tuesday
Jun162020

Read all about it

Law shop disquiet over pay and leave during the plague ... Other shops pressing galley slaves for an early return to work ... Homework not up to scratch ... On tap for pressing matters ... Street assemblies in court ... Revisiting 1970s student radicalism ... The Chestnut reappears ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Jun122020

Hold the news

Newsroom numbness ... The Australian takes a misguided swipe at counsel assisting ... Twitter trawl ... Humour calamity ... Payback for contempt threat against loose-cannon hack ... Lord Eldon saddles-up for fresh student fight ... Famous Brisbane brief in fresh robes ... Theodora reports 

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