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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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      October 7 can and should be remembered by Israelis and by Palestinians as marking the commencement of the genocide ... Greg Barns SC
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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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Sep162021

Trust me - I'm blind

• DateThursday, September 16, 2021

An abundance of caution ... Porter sunk and lost on the "fit and proper" standard ... The politician who shot himself in both knees ... End is nigh ... Previous explanations full of holes ... More about the trust 

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Tuesday
Sep142021

The tail end of the American century

• DateTuesday, September 14, 2021

Decline and fall following 9/11 ... Damage wrought by the "war on terror" ... Democracy looks wobbly ... Brigade of unscrupulous lawyers shredded the law ... Nacht und Nebel ... Guantánamo detainees now in the Taliban government ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Friday
Sep102021

Vlad impaled

• DateFriday, September 10, 2021

A WIN win ... Atanaskovic unsuccessful in fight over bill ... Client charged for investigation into money filched by firm's employee ... Promise not to charge ... Work infected by conflict ... No informed consent ... Goodbye $150,000 ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Sep102021

Vignettes

, • DateFriday, September 10, 2021

Chambers lockdown as Covid strikes gilded floor ... Cows come home in well-executed judicial flourish ... Family lawyers urged to wise-up to "reputation risk management" ... Magistrate sticks his beak into reworking the prosecution case ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep092021

Western mail

• DateThursday, September 9, 2021

Laying it on thick at swearing-in ceremonies ... Facts ignored in the face of too much grovel ...  Quick judge spanked for slowing down the works ... Anti-rights zealot plonked into the human rights chair ... Groper reports from Perth 

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Tuesday
Sep072021

Guns and taxes

• DateTuesday, September 7, 2021

Tasmanian tax luminary goes down in land tax appeal ... Properties held in trust and super fund ... Back tax assessed ... Incorrect classification as "principal residence" ... Facts not law 

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Monday
Sep062021

Full-throttle public spanking

• DateMonday, September 6, 2021

Court of Appeal throws out muddle-headed Law Society plea to suppress identity of "permanently" unfit solicitor ... Offending solicitor's name already online ... Open justice ... Public must not think lawyers get favourable treatment, even though they do ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Sunday
Sep052021

Google foe goes down before the stipes

• DateSunday, September 5, 2021

Gangland lawyer done for professional misconduct ... Misleading the VLSC ... Relationship dispute ... Acting for one partner when previously acted for the other ... Delays ... Procrastination ... Reckless misstatements ... A good wet lettucing ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case 

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Saturday
Sep042021

Vintage pandemic

• DateSaturday, September 4, 2021

Spanish Flu and Covid-19 ... War and contagion ... Consequences for wine grape harvests ... European and Australian vintages in 1919-1920 compared to 2020-2021 ... Australia's bounteous 2021 wine grape crush ... Excellent fruit all around ... First world issues ... Wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler writes 

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