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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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Feb202020

Choking Chorley to death

• DateThursday, February 20, 2020

Fees stoush reaches Vic Appeals ... Abolition of the Chorley exception applies to law firms acting for themselves in litigation ... Herbert Smith Freehills not entitled to recover costs in dispute over failed float of petrol distributor ... Hi-ho Silver ... Argument rejected that employed solicitors working for partners should be able to recover fees ... Solicitors on the record acting in their own cause ... Not even Bret Walker could save the day ... Stephen Murray reports  

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Sunday
Feb162020

A year's worth of golden threads

• DateSunday, February 16, 2020

Theodora and Miss Ginger Snatch put their heads together and recall the highs and lows of 2019 ... Lawyers and the law ... Reliving the stories that tickled our fancy ... Entertaining judges ... Law shops in the frame ... Silken ones ... Courts in the act ... Bureau de Spank ... And heaps more 

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Thursday
Feb132020

What's on Porter's plate?

• DateThursday, February 13, 2020

Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Feb122020

60,000 years later

• DateWednesday, February 12, 2020

The High Court grapples with the First Australians as aliens ... Legal minefield ... No joint judgments here ... Blood, country and belonging ... The unique position of Aboriginal Australians ... Section 51 ... Mabo (No 2) ... Powerful judgments ... Culture warriors on the ramparts ... Artemus Jones analyses each of the seven judgments 

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Friday
Feb072020

L'état, c'est Trump

• DateFriday, February 7, 2020

Impeachment and acquittal ... Sham trial ... Dubious defence lawyers with incoherent arguments ... Constitutional nonsense ... A mess that John Roberts CJ helped create ... Torture lawyers still peddling their soiled wares ... Roger Fitch reports from the wasteland of Washington

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Friday
Jan312020

Dubious developments on the Torrens

• DateFriday, January 31, 2020

Court of Appeal for Crow Eaters ... Flummery from a vacuous attorney general ... Judge shortage ... Secret report on botched Keogh trial ... Payouts piling up ... Justice becomes the plaything of politicians ... Procrustes writes from the nation's murder capital 

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Friday
Jan312020

Lifting the lid on Kerr's coup

• DateFriday, January 31, 2020

Sir John Kerr's correspondence in the High Court ... Submissions in the Archives case ... Commonwealth property or personal property ... What is being hidden? ... Accessing governor general's letters about the sacking of the Whitlam government ... Bret Walker v Stephen Donaghue ... Alan Zheng sifts through the paperwork 

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Thursday
Jan302020

Crêpes Suzette

• DateThursday, January 30, 2020

Bad tempered Madge ticked-off in the Queensland District Court ... Misunderstanding basic legal requirements on multiple occasions ... Fundamental errors ... Flawed costs order ... Inappropriate behaviour from the bench ... Petulant sprays ... Sucking eggs ... The works ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Jan282020

Circus Court's procedural snafu

, • DateTuesday, January 28, 2020

Justice Debra Mortimer goes to town on "certain Federal Circuit Court judges" who make it a "common practice" to deliver written reasons after the appeal time has expired ... Canine court "interactions" ... Tasmanian briefs lured by the idea that life will be better if the royal trinket is reinstated ... Theodora reports 

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