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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 >> 

 

 

Friday
Jun022017

An offending system of youth justice

• DateFriday, June 2, 2017

The Northern Territory provides a broken justice system for Indigenous children ... Under-funded, under-skilled and a failure of political will ... Hannah Wootton looks at evidence given to the NT royal commission on youth detention 

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Wednesday
May312017

Costly costs dispute

• DateWednesday, May 31, 2017

Claim of fabricated documents in costs assessment ... Debts that are not true debts ... Cost determination affected by jurisdictional error ... Barrister's petition dismissed 

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Friday
May262017

Culture, ideology, power and Gar

• DateFriday, May 26, 2017

News Corpse scribbler documents the horrors of "progressive ideology" ... Re Day [No2] undoes decades of Gar's nonsense ... Costume drama set in south Asia ... Ryckmans on how to be cosmopolitan ... Procrustes on the Rialto 

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Friday
May262017

Yuf detainees get rights

• DateFriday, May 26, 2017

When a child detention centre is really an adult prison ... VicSupremes not tricked by government slight of hand ... A moment in the sun for the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities ... Screws with weapons ... Judicial review ... Peach Melba on the case 

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Monday
May222017

Torpid languor

• DateMonday, May 22, 2017

Canberra's judgments of perfection ... Prize giving ... God help us ... Blood oath ... Witnessing stat decs 101 

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Sunday
May212017

Despairing about the advocates immunity

, • DateSunday, May 21, 2017

Judges think the advocates immunity is past its use-by date ... High Court formulation out of step with reality and international trends  

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Friday
May192017

Mr Sandman

• DateFriday, May 19, 2017

A fair share of the court's time is too much time ... Tax appeal closed down because of dilatory barrister ... There's no time like tomorrow 

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Tuesday
May162017

Travesties of justice

• DateTuesday, May 16, 2017

Justice Denied by Bill Hosking QC and John Suter ... Reviewed by Tom Kelly ... True stories from the courts of the 1970s and 1980s ... Police verbals ... Complacent judges ... A rich cast of characters  

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Tuesday
May162017

An informal gathering

• DateTuesday, May 16, 2017

What to wear? ... How to eat? ... Barely Legal is invited to schmooze at Big Law ... Socially worthy initiative turns into recruitment drive ... Finding safe ground in a real property lecture 

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