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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
Aug142015

"A stainless reputation for punctilious integrity"

• DateFriday, August 14, 2015

Ideological warrior Dyson Heydon lets his ultra-conservative credentials hang out ... Not a good look ... The varied quality of "punctilious integrity" ... Stainless commissioner stains the Royal Commission 

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Monday
Aug102015

A "must" read

• DateMonday, August 10, 2015

Timbo's last judgment as Qld CJ ... Contenders for the chief's job ... Ken Hayne's portrait 

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Monday
Aug102015

Librarian's lament

• DateMonday, August 10, 2015

Victimisation at the NSW ODPP ... Why is Silbert's advice on Cunneen secret? ... Police bring their guns to court ... Tony Abbott on the role of the courts - the new Joh Bjelke Petersen ... Waterstreet with rough fingers 

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Thursday
Aug062015

Fighting the unprivileged in court

DateThursday, August 6, 2015

Former AG Eric Holder goes back to big law ... Possible reward for failing to prosecute banks ... TPP will see Australian health care targeted by predatory US insurers ... New trend of prosecuting foreign "unprivileged" fighters in US civil courts ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Thursday
Aug062015

More serious disquiet

• DateThursday, August 6, 2015

Federal Court's Geoffrey Flick concerned about some of Judge Sandy Street's refugee decisions in the Federal Circuit Court  ... Judge refused extensions of time for applicants, even where the minister consented ...Flick flicks the cases to another judge ... Start again ... Kate Lilly reports 

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Tuesday
Aug042015

Nothing unnatural going on here

• DateTuesday, August 4, 2015

Public hearing into the conduct of Judge Garry Neilson wraps-up ... Conduct Division of the Judicial Commission now weighing the various "punishments" ... Reeducation camp, no more sex cases,  private spanking with a wet lettuce leaf ... Emily Meller reports 

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Monday
Aug032015

Judge caught in society's taboos

• DateMonday, August 3, 2015

NSW Judicial Commission examines conduct of District Court judge Garry Neilson ... "Mortified" that his words have been unhappily interpreted ... Putting homosexuality in the same category as incest ... The eugenics approach to criminal law ... Emily Meller reporting courtside 

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Monday
Aug032015

Wonders of the law

• DateMonday, August 3, 2015

Case note roundup ... English High Court judge goes overboard about his missing luggage ... British Airways in the frame ... No amount of money too small for a contest of great minds ... Immunity of judges and court officers trumps free speech ... Ginger Snatch reporting  

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Friday
Jul312015

Southwood Ho

, • DateFriday, July 31, 2015

The Stella Maris fallout continues ... NT Supremo says there's no apprehended bias in his hearing a costs case where his wife has been privy to details of the defendant's evidence and strategy ... Judge insists his wife is detached ... Lay observer would not think a married couple would talk about matters in dereliction of their obligations 

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