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"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 

 

 

 

Saturday
Jun282025

The Silken Octopus

• DateSaturday, June 28, 2025

Bar groper spanked ... Christmas comes but once a year ... Grovel and fine ... Alan Blow saddles up in Darwin ... Big croc wrangler case ... Egg collection scrambled ... Strange suppression order ... From our Local Field Agents 

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Thursday
Jun262025

Delay update

• DateThursday, June 26, 2025

"Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch 

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Tuesday
Jun242025

Fresh upsets

• DateTuesday, June 24, 2025

Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Jun132025

From the cutting-room floor

• DateFriday, June 13, 2025

Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent 

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Thursday
Jun122025

Sia in the counting house 

• DateThursday, June 12, 2025

Damn statistics ... Federal Court mandarins inability to count ... Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services ... Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates ... Transparency ... From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake  

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Friday
Jun062025

Bar baa

• DateFriday, June 6, 2025

WA barristers in certificate renewal snarl ... Website hacked ... Law Society and Legal Practice Board in standoff ... Threat of personal details emerging ... More lebensraum for bar management in Sydney and Brisbane ... Waspish correspondence ... Indemnity insurance premiums blow out 

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Wednesday
Jun042025

Annihilation of the now

• DateWednesday, June 4, 2025

Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads 

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Wednesday
Jun042025

Letter from London

• DateWednesday, June 4, 2025

Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty 

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Tuesday
Jun032025

Unread emails

• DateTuesday, June 3, 2025

Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens 

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