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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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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 >> 

 

 

Sunday
Apr052020

Dexterity of the left hand

• DateSunday, April 5, 2020

Car accident ... Plaintiff's fraudulent case ... Farrago of lies ... Deceit ... Tentative orders for indemnity costs and to refer the plaintiff for criminal investigation ... Committing offences while allegedly incapacitated ... Priors ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Mar312020

Virus at varsity

• DateTuesday, March 31, 2020

Closing down the law school ... Barely Legal invited to Zoom lectures ... Five show up where there should be 300 ... Exam supervision by 'ProctorU' ... Talk of a student strike ... What's a law school without people and a library and broken vending machines? 

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Tuesday
Mar312020

Game plan

• DateTuesday, March 31, 2020

The "independent" bar goes cap-in-hand to the government ... Game's up ... One dissenting voice above the parapet ... Trying to prop-up the chambers working model ... Turnover of bar staff ... NSW Law Society in upheaval as a cabal seeks to change the constitution and sideline dissenting voices ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Mar272020

Domesday Dossier

• DateFriday, March 27, 2020

Practising law may never be the same again ... Powers of the state unlikely to be wound back ... Unhappy remote experiences ... Costs and time blowouts ... Corona appeals ... Lockouts ... Home on the range ... Theodora does the rounds 

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Thursday
Mar192020

Home on the Grange

• DateThursday, March 19, 2020

Hilary Penfold's vintage from 2011 ... Dry and too much oak ... Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered ... Respondent shot by the coppers ... Damages judgment ... Overly long and detailed reasons ... Riddled with errors ... Undermining public confidence in the judiciary ... Artemus Jones reprises 

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Thursday
Mar192020

Rumble rumbled

• DateThursday, March 19, 2020

The role political opinions may or may not play in sacking a consultant to a major law shop ... Insubordination and being rude about a client ... Close connection to expressing a political opinion ... Fair Work Act ... Acceptable to communicate views to anyone but the media ... Martinet ... Motivations ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Monday
Mar162020

Penfold puts a cork in it

• DateMonday, March 16, 2020

Hilary term ... Another judgment from retired ACT judge Hilary Penfold ... Preposterous delay of nearly six years creates more problems for the litigants ... Overburdened judgment writing style ... Reproduction of vast tracks of submissions ... Unclear reasoning ... Lavish dinner proposed by Artemus Jones 

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Friday
Mar132020

Moderately depressing

• DateFriday, March 13, 2020

Lawyer spankings resume after jurisdictional collapse ... NCAT picks-up disciplinary cases where it left off ... Helpful legislative amendments to the rescue ... Wollongong solicitor ignored missives from the Law Society ... Compliance required before trading ticket reissued ... Poverty ... Despair ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Mar122020

The implausible meets the irreconcilable

• DateThursday, March 12, 2020

The attorney general's draft religious discrimination legislation ... A patchwork of contradictory provisions ... Stealing one person's protections for the benefit of others ... Mess of pottage ... Shield and sword ... Statements of religious belief ... Vilification ... Who says Christians are persecuted? ... Nathan Twibill picks through the morass  

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