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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 >> 

 

 

Sunday
Jan162022

Bureau de Spank's last hurrah for 2021

• DateSunday, January 16, 2022

Three decisions involving lawyer conduct brought up the rear in the year just gone ... From Perth, Sydney and Melbourne ... Public birching ... Child porn, false allegations and failure to disclose ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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Wednesday
Dec222021

It's Christmas for sexually harassing brief

, • DateWednesday, December 22, 2021

NSW Court of Appeal protects offensive barrister ... Identity kept under wraps for 20 years ... Resignations and redundancies at the bar association, the law society and the AAT ... Judge denounces boring dinner parties ... Political hacks seeking credit for judicial appointment ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Dec212021

Exquisite finery and dirty linen

• DateTuesday, December 21, 2021

The High Court in the 1930s ... Judges bickering and distrustful of each other ... Drawing on dairy notes, Gideon Haigh details the disharmony ... Was this a period of peak judicial unhappiness ... Justice in the hands of riven justices ... C.N. Brown reporting 

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Monday
Dec202021

Vasta sued for misconduct - trial adjourned

• DateMonday, December 20, 2021

Judge on trial ... Federal Court proceedings against Salvatore Vasta ... Poor judicial conduct runs in the blood ... Ancient cases examined during trial of the FCFC judge for abuse of process ... Max Shanahan reports on the hearing 

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Friday
Dec172021

The Bigots' Bill

• DateFriday, December 17, 2021

Religious Discrimination Bill ... The entire history of discrimination law and rights ... Context included ... Unintended and intended consequences ... Equality and liberty ... The shield and the sword ... Race and religion ... Bogging down the courts ... Conceptually incoherent legislation ... External affairs power ... Alan Zheng's significant report 

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Wednesday
Dec152021

A few rights short of the common law

, • DateWednesday, December 15, 2021

Buckley gets a chance ... Law Society required to cough-up more documents in disciplinary case ... Extra material would not be too much of a distraction for NCAT ... Challenge to public health orders by anti-vaxxers thrown out by NSW judges ... Arguments "blunt and unnuanced" ... Crowdfunded litigation and a lawyer's fiduciary duties ... Alan Zheng reports

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Thursday
Dec092021

Charging towards total victory

• DateThursday, December 9, 2021

Employment lawyer loses latest round in employment case ... Lengthy struggle ... Nor much resolved ... No deceit by Norton Rose ... Self-serving puffery ... Big law firm not deceitful ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Dec082021

Women rule

, • DateWednesday, December 8, 2021

Gender quotas ... Solicitors elect NSW Law Society Council with an 82% female majority ... Retired judge wants more litigation to bring the ABC to heel ... Questionable evidence to parliamentary committee on litigation funding ... Premier has confidence in conflicted AG after no confidence motion ... Time stretched allows for extra careful detailed review of evidence in a copyright case ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Nov302021

Temby's Tales

• DateTuesday, November 30, 2021

The arc of life ... A memoir from the former inaugural Commonwealth DPP ... The foundation ICAC commissioner ... Momentous decisions ... Searing fallouts ... C.N. Brown reviews With Conviction 

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