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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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Apr222020

Films for lawyers in lockdown

Miss Lumière selects 10 of her favourite courtroom films ... An Atticus Finch/John Grisham free zone ... Not all is black and white ... Flaws in the legal process finely wrought on celluloid ... Most if not all are available on streaming services 

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Monday
Apr202020

The Case of Annika's Drawers

Police riffling through a journalist's drawers ... Illegal warrant, but not illegal enough to stop the Keystone Cops keeping the material on the USB stick and using it ... Seizure of property and judicial discretion ... Forget the journalism, the common law all at sea on unlawfully acquired evidence ... Where's Entick v Carrington when you need it? ... Procrustes gets to grips with the High Court's twisted knickers  

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Tuesday
Apr142020

Plague moots

Flattening the curve with remote mooting ... Easter stroll in the park tests Barely Legal's mooting skills ... Barely Legal v Const. Plod ... Public Health Restrictions on Gathering and Movement ... When three people gathering together in a public place become two ... Reprimand and warning 

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Friday
Apr102020

Washing of hands

The Rabid Princess and the passing of bucks ... Virus laden cruise ships and the Australian response ... Earlier lessons from the Diamond Princess ignored by Border Force and NSW Health ... A forest of laws ... Remembering the plague ship Surry ... The Black Death's legal legacy ... Procrustes at large 

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Thursday
Apr092020

The disobedient ostrich

Yarraside brief fights over solicitor's bill ... Failure to abide by court direction ... Judicial review of costs order ... Too much delay ... The cruel clock ... Health issues ... Personal difficulties ... General drama ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Wednesday
Apr082020

Stand by your man

No mad rush for de-rolling former AGS lawyer who diddled a trust fund ... Offence in 2009 ... Caught in 2014 ... Pleaded guilty in 2016 ... Out of the nick by 2018 ... Struck off in 2020 ... Wife "horrified" by husband's offending ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Apr082020

London Calling

With Boris in sickbay, nurse is having a frightful time ... Jittery politics ... Bored citizens stuck at home ... Leverhulme goes for a walk outside ... Other hot topics go cold ... Corporates who care ... Problems with Zoom ... Fallout from Alex Salmond's sexual assault trial  

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Tuesday
Apr072020

The war-time president

Managing the pandemic in the US of A ... Letting the virus out of the bottle as the president bloviates and botches ... Ideology trumps science ... Misinterpreting the Defence Procurement Act ... Disbanding and closing programs for pandemic preparedness ... US manufacturers busily exporting vital equipment ... Oversight provisions in rescue legislation to be ignored ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Tuesday
Apr072020

Those pesky judges

What protection visa? ... Man held in immigration detention by the government after he had been granted a protection visa ... Federal Court orders immediate release ... Minister for Immigration birched in fulsome judicial rebuke ... Ministerial defiance of the law ... Disgraceful conduct ... Habeas corpus application opposed by the minister on spurious grounds ... Zoe Mitchell reports 

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