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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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      Blood out of stone ... Ruthless Linda Reynolds dragging David Sharaz into bankruptcy
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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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      The US Solicitor General ... Trump's man at the Supreme Court has an impressive success rate
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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
Sep152019

London Calling

• DateSunday, September 15, 2019

Brexit ... Everyone's got an opinion ... Leverhulme has the facts ... Lying to Her Maj ... Prorogation and the courts ... Forum shopping ... Who's ahead in the polls ... Tory's defections and sackings ... Corbyn not making headway ... Leverhulme at Westminster 

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Saturday
Sep142019

Blow by Blow

• DateSaturday, September 14, 2019

UPDATE ... Solicitor ordered to pay court costs personally, within in 60 days ... It took over three years for him to fork-up ... Unacceptable delays ... Far-fetched excuses and extensions of time ... Finding of professional misconduct ... Disgraceful ... Other unattractive priors 

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Friday
Sep062019

Rumble in the jungle

• DateFriday, September 6, 2019

HWL Ebsworth lawyer told not to bite the hand that feeds the firm ... The turbulent Dr Rumble's criticism of his client ... Bad for business ... Grounds for termination ... Managing partner Martinez intolerant of insubordination ... Christmas party snub ... No presents ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Friday
Sep062019

Bye bye Chorley

• DateFriday, September 6, 2019

High Court puts the lid on the honey pot ... Common law revised ... Solicitors and barristers no longer able to charge costs when acting for themselves ... Same principle applies for litigants in person ... Chorley exception was a "privilege" and an affront to equality before the law ... Stinging Nettle ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Thursday
Sep052019

Porter produces another shambles

• DateThursday, September 5, 2019

The attorney general's draft religious freedoms legislation is a dog's breakfast ... Three Bills of the Holy Trinity ... Irony of ironies - an expanded role for the Human Rights Commission ... In any event, religious bodies don't believe in freedom of speech ... Special protections for crackpot beliefs ... Failure to expand free speech where it is most needed ... Graham Hryce despairs 

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Thursday
Sep052019

Companies are hereby ordered ...

• DateThursday, September 5, 2019

Trump as the Mad King ... Dystopian plans ... SCOTUS agenda ... "Religious" claims ... Gun control ... Voting rights ...Republicans on a roll ... Latest news from Guantánamo ... Roger Fitch reports from the turmoil of Washington 

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Thursday
Sep052019

Sticky wicket

• DateThursday, September 5, 2019

Yarraside spankings ... The wrong disciplinary body has been doling out punishment to bad lawyers ... Hundred of cases that were legal nullities have to be rescued by retrospective legislation ... For four years one paid attention to the defect ... Charter of Rights sent packing ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Sep032019

Jumping around in the history books

• DateTuesday, September 3, 2019

The Sudan war ... The test at Headingley ... Boris Johnson reciting the opening lines of the Illiad ... Paddy Leigh Fermor with General Kreipe in Crete ... Horace's Oades ... Tim Fischer and Ian Callinan ... The Wik case ... Bernard Colleary ... Procrustes goes to town 

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Tuesday
Aug272019

Academia's greasy pole

• DateTuesday, August 27, 2019

Law school deanship drama in war-torn Hong Kong sees a result at Sydney University ... Selection process ... Law school league tables ... Comparative academic credentials ... New Sydney dean unsuccessful with Honkers application ... Barely Legal reports 

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