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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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Feb082019

Green Book: not all black and white

Green Book, reviewed by Miss Lumière ... America in the 1960s ... The white working class tough guy on a tour of the South with a refined black musician ... What could go wrong? ... Food for thought ... "Motorist's guide for negroes" 

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Wednesday
Feb062019

Richard Beasley SC

Richard Beasley SC is On The Couch ... Novellist and silk ... Until now he was ankle deep in the Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission, which reported on January 29 ... Last meal on death row ... Playing with a horse jigger ... Thoughts on water and life  

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Thursday
Jan312019

Radical social change

Tax deductions, gender discrimination and the US Constitution get a workout in On the Basis of Sex ... Ruth and Marty Ginsburg's great case, together ... Tenth Circuit bowled over by RBG's five minute final submission ... Breaching the legislative dam against equality ... Miss Lumière at the preview  

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Wednesday
Jan302019

Watery grave

How Davos started ... Culture wars and water ... Darling, what has happened to Murray? ... Paucity of H2O ... Barnaby backs the cotton plantations over the fish ... Water theft is a traditional bush lark ... No one pays the price ... The Moors knew how to manage water, according to Procrustes 

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Tuesday
Jan292019

Six of the best

Supreme Court of NSW birches Law Society for bringing a misconceived misconduct allegation against a lawyer ... Witnessing a signature for a child's passport application ... Failure to disclose relevant material ... Jurisdictional error ... Undue delay ... Bureau de Spank gets spanked 

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Friday
Jan252019

Where's Wyles' money?

Melbourne briefs sue DLA Piper for fees ... A large sum outstanding ... Claim that barristers were only told after they had done the work that they could not be paid until the firm was paid by the clients ... Action in the Federal Court 

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Tuesday
Jan222019

Vice Regal News

UPDATE ... Beazley P moves to Government House ... Andrew Bell SC anointed as the new P ... Various hopefuls shattered ... Medical specialists rolling in it ... Silly season in Adelaide ... Theodora reports  

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Monday
Jan212019

All that for that 

Fallout ... Defamation case from 2000 that ran off the tracks ... Legal stupidity ... Excruciating manoeuvring ... Bankruptcy ... Delay ... Despair ... 18 years in the works ... All in the ACT Supreme Court ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case 

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Saturday
Jan192019

The whys and wherefores of the Wyvill case 

NT Law & Order Society chasing senior Darwin silk ... Federal Court rejects stay of Law Society complaint against Alistair Wyvill SC ... Ancient political saga ... Wild ways of the Top End ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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