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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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 Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See 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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Jan272020

Lynching by lawyers

Just Mercy ... Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative ... Saving the misrepresented from death row ... Black men presumed guilty in America's south ... Racist legal system ... Dirty prosecution tricks ... Frying flesh... Miss Lumière at the movies 

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Thursday
Jan232020

The poor must pay

Harsh life for struck-off solicitor ... A cult member who got onto pills and drugs ... Liquor store robberies ... A desire to return to prison ... Court of Appeal thinks robbery is incompatible with legal practice ... Forget rehabilitation, paying the Law Society's costs is more important ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Jan212020

Morrison, God and Climate

Government makes climate change noises, but no pressing need for a more urgent policy setting ... Fools paradise persists ... God will show the way as science takes the backseat ... Miracles galore ... Inspiration from Trump ... The editor comments  

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Tuesday
Jan212020

The torpor twins

ACT Supreme Court's slow-coach judges ... Even in retirement the suffering continues ... Gone but not forgotten ... Delays wreaking havoc on litigants ... From Artemus Jones 

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Monday
Jan202020

Frost bite

Liberal Party's misleading tricks in Kooyong and Chisholm ... Corflutes to heaven ... Full Feds finds the dodgy signage didn't swing enough votes to make a difference ... Fresh meaning for the phrase "likely to mislead" ... Judges tread wearily on political rorts ... Christmas Eve judgment that deserves attention ... Alan Zheng to the rescue 

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Friday
Jan172020

Courting climate intervention

Can and should the courts intervene on climate policy? ... Gloucester Resources and the "first wave" of climate litigation ... Judicial delicacy about putting a toe on the legislative patch ... European Human Rights Convention applied in upholding government's duty for a stronger mitigation effort ... Intergenerational equity ... Nathan Twibill reports 

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Tuesday
Jan142020

Impeachment and other crimes

What about all the other impeachable offences? ... No immunity for impeachment crimes ... Trump remains unchastened ... Fair elections cauterised by the Supreme Court ... War criminals to the rescue ... Judgeships for ideologues and party hacks ... From Roger Fitch in Washington

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Friday
Jan102020

Myrmidons and dancing bears

What is it about the Murdoch media and climate? ... Riding the tiger of denialism ... Margaret Thatcher, with her Oxford science degree, saw the problem ... Ruination of our rivers, air, crops, stock and reef ... The political power of coal and zero tax ... Doc Evatt showed how political courage worked ... Procrustes explains 

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Friday
Dec202019

A shaggy dog story

A Christmas helping of apprehended bias from Judge Sal Vasta ... More shouting, rudeness, anger, and overbearing conduct ... Expense and delay as the case has to start again ... Transcript ... Judicial embarrassment ... Sal's sorry history 

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