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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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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
Apr072017

Questioning the Socratic method

Cold calling by the professor ... The terror ... Students freeze under interrogation ... Socratic teaching under fire at Harvard Law School ... White men pipe-up most ... Hot topics under threat ... From Hannah Ryan 

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Monday
Apr032017

Scoping the advocates' immunity

Immunity from suit ... High Court has another stab at it ... Oxford's Professor of Obligations in the driving seat ... More loose threads appear ... No finality in sight for the quelling of immunity cases 

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Saturday
Apr012017

Russian takeover

Judicial movements ... Sofronoff appointment seen as a strong move ... Will Timbo send flowers? ... Earl Warren calls it a day ... Contenders polishing their whiskers 

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Friday
Mar312017

Brooding spirits of the law

Great Australian Dissents ... Sir Tony Mason launches learned tome ... Noble and notable dissenting judgments ... Judges who had an eye on the future ... Disagreements on High 

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Thursday
Mar302017

Trump's disorders

 

Roger Fitch in Washington on Trump's plans to destroy America's public services ... Out the window goes consumer protection, funding for the arts and legal aid ... After James Comey nobbled Hillary Clinton, the FBI is now probing Russia's influence on the election ... Civil damages suit against CIA torture contractors 

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Sunday
Mar262017

Time after time

Personal injury law shop Brydens having trouble producing an itemised bill of costs ... A continuing difficulty ... Lost file ... Strange interpretation of the Legal Profession Act ... Daniel Ahern reports 

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Sunday
Mar262017

Costs feud sends solicitor to the infirmary

Solicitor overcharged whistleblowing client ... Cost assessment ... Client charged $1.7 million ... Breach of duty ... Breach of trust account regulations ... Nearly eight years on ... It's not over yet ... Daniel Ahern is on the case 

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Saturday
Mar252017

Inflammatory letter lands solicitor a reprimand

Family law ... Letter writing skills ... Unreferenced borrowings in overwrought missive to client's husband ... Writing under instructions ... Sohini Mehta reports 

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Thursday
Mar232017

Sentencing trends

The good old days of sentencing ... A decent lunch for the judge and then into court to slot some poor wretch, accompanied by plenty of self-righteous moralising ... View of the world from the leafy suburbs ... Lack of rigour ... Judicial history ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports 

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