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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
Oct232017

Kindness and cold ambition

• DateMonday, October 23, 2017

Law graduate dismissed by firm ... Fair Work Commission finds that unpaid PLT does not count towards a "minimum employment period" ... No unfair dismissal protections for intern who morphed into an employee ... Peta Leigh examines the traps for young players 

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Monday
Oct232017

The Reserve Bank of Mum & Dad

• DateMonday, October 23, 2017

Money lent to son by parents gives rise to a legal relationship ... Court orders nearly $300,000 be returned to parents who kept forking out to their offspring ... No need for ledgers ... Peta Leigh on the case 

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Friday
Oct202017

One out, all out

• DateFriday, October 20, 2017

Federal courts' staff go all-blue collar ... Court bruvvers and sisters united in walk out ... Darrin, please explain ... Rerun for Jeff Phillips at bar elections ... Devious theories behind the Pascoe appointment ... Theodora's Goings On ... 

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Tuesday
Oct172017

Fresh miseries from Dutton

• DateTuesday, October 17, 2017

New Migration Act amendments ... Strip searching detainees in immigration detention ... Prohibited "things" to be determined by the minister ... Use of dogs to search detainees ... More humiliations ... Peach Melba files 

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Monday
Oct162017

Food diary

• DateMonday, October 16, 2017

Barely Legal's constant hunt for free nourishment ... Sustenance on a student's miserable stipend ... Exam time and destitution ... Failing to live off the fat of the law 

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Friday
Oct132017

Speaking up, and down, for equality

• DateFriday, October 13, 2017

Same-sex marriage ... "Equality" and "discrimination" are the themes adopted by most of the professional law bodies around the country ... It's difficult for lawyers to argue against equality ... Instead, timid lawyers stay schtum ... Portraits in nervousness ... Here's our survey of how the bars and law societies have got to grips with a proposed change to the Marriage Act 

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Tuesday
Oct102017

McNabbed

• DateTuesday, October 10, 2017

Lapses, failings and breaches see Melbourne solicitor put off the track for nine months ... A lack of insight ... Bankruptcy ... Madeline White follows the chaotic trail 

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Monday
Oct092017

Solicitor's swindle faces head-on collision

• DateMonday, October 9, 2017

How to rob a bank with a ball-point pen ... A long and expensive fraud results in the inevitable - an order for striking off ... Bogus loan applications … Ponzi scheme … Victoria's most expensive case of fraud and deception … Luan Whitworth on the case 

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Sunday
Oct082017

Hypocrite alert

• DateSunday, October 8, 2017

Young Christian sacked by employer because she was a NO voter ... SSM ... Andrew Bolt, never the sharpest tool in the shed, makes a mess of his free speech credentials ... Subeta Vimalarajah on inconsistent anti-discrimination laws 

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