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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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Dec032019

Bulletin from the Bureau de Spank

• DateTuesday, December 3, 2019

Department of Wet Lettuce ... Barrister lightly birched for overcharging ... Unsettling fee collection methods ... Fee refund ... And that old hearing aid case resurfaces ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Dec022019

Try not to plead guilty

• DateMonday, December 2, 2019

The Map ... Glacial development of new justice measures for Van Diemen's Land ... The slow gestation of Magistrates Court reforms ... Defendants no longer required to stump-up fees to see the prosecution's evidence ... Ancient rites and rituals of Tasmanian police ... Reforms that should make proceedings less efficient ... Greg Barns comments 

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Thursday
Nov282019

The triumph of tribal epistemology

• DateThursday, November 28, 2019

Roger Fitch examines where Congress is heading with its impeachment investigation ... Factoids and the Republican defence ... Picking-up where Mueller left off ... The impeachable provision of bribery ... False equivalence narratives from the media ... New distractions from Bill Barr ... And Trump sanctions war crimes 

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Wednesday
Nov272019

Spilling the beans

, • DateWednesday, November 27, 2019

Official Secrets ... Whistleblowing at its finest ... The GCHQ operative who got a memo from the NSA into the hands of The Observer ... The right to know about the invasion of Iraq and its illegality ... Coalition of the Willing and the missing weapons of mass destruction ... Miss Lumière enjoys a high-minded leak in the public interest 

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Tuesday
Nov262019

Don't mention it

, • DateTuesday, November 26, 2019

Stop the presses - the WCC has made a decision ... QCs and the crown's work ... Taxi! ... Invalid disciplinary cases validated ... Public purpose fund raided ... Tasmanian judge tongue-lashes Sydney lawyer ... Theodora sniffs around the traps 

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Friday
Nov222019

Western ways

• DateFriday, November 22, 2019

Mores of the Perth bar ... Founding father Francis (Red) Burt ... Fewer airs and graces ... Different traditions out west ... Distain for FIFO barristers ... Faux pas of easterners ... Lecturing the locals on the law ... Slithering out of court early ... Groper on cicada impressions  

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Monday
Nov182019

Market saturation for Queenies

, • DateMonday, November 18, 2019

Yarraside bar 'n' grill ... The brave and confident few who have withstood the stampede to queens counsel ... Difficulty shaking off colonial branding ... The petty rush for status ... Statistics since 2015 ... No hard evidence that QCs do better than SCs ... Alan Zheng combs through the data 

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Friday
Nov152019

Silk presses complaint to Watch Poodle 

• DateFriday, November 15, 2019

Sydney silk says articles in The Australian about ICAC reflect adversely on him ... Complaint to Australian Press Council ... Incorrect assertions ... Failure to check ... Bias ... Puzzling claims that findings of corrupt conduct have been overturned ... "Exoneration" that doesn't exist ... Zealotry 

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Tuesday
Nov122019

The small stuff of words

, • DateTuesday, November 12, 2019

Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas at their peak ... Pain and Glory reviewed by Miss Lumière ... Life, loves, memories, and loss ... An artist's reckoning of a life lived 

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