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Merits review ... AAT member's unzipped opinions ... Conservative elbows flailing in all directions ... Unrestrained by convention ... Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar ... Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs ... Fascination with gilded embroidery ... Theodora reports ... Read more ...

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Back in the ring ... Rape on the minister’s couch … Cover-up … Of course, there was a cover-up … Bettina Arndt and the Institute for the Presumption of Bruce Lehrmann’s Innocence … Linda Reynolds needs sympathy and money … Justice Lee’s loose crumbs ... Read on ... 

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Plus ça change ... Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files ... Read more ... 

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Celebrations at the Lubyanka ... NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges ... Read more ... 

"A Legal Braveheart who is a defender of the rule of law. Sofronoff had the courage to expose legal misadventure of the sort that must never be condoned. He deserves the nation's gratitude."

Rule of Law Institute plugging a forthcoming lecture by Walter Sofronoff with a quote from an editorial in The Australian. April 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


Justinian Featurettes

Algorithmic injustices ... Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice ... Read more ... 


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Hoot ... Hoot ... No win, lots of fees – remembering Copper 7 … Conflicts and compromises ... Law and Social Work get cognate at U.Syd … Judge Felicity – feisty telly star … Wendler’s marmalade – by appointment ... From Justinian's Archive, July 30, 2010 ... Read more ... 


 

 

Monday
May172021

Noteworthy decision

Billing ... Ebsworth refused to hand over file notes to client ... Client's bills paid by bank ... Property of the file notes ... For whose benefit were the file notes created? ... No charge code in billing system for file notes ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
May172021

Accessory to the swordsman

Prosecutor on the ropes ... Court finds murder prosecution was unreasonable ... Unstable witness the basis of "case theory" ... Witness alleges mistreatment by DPP ... Evidence withheld ... Offender recovers legal fees ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
May142021

RBG reincarnated

Insights into the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Towards a More Perfect Union ... The great sex discrimination abolitionist ... A supreme intellect at work ... Braham Dabscheck reviews a collection of RGB's speeches and key cases ... Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue 

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Friday
May072021

The Porter Principle

I'll show you mine but no-one should see yours ... Porter struggling with too much baggage ... Untoward allegations about Riverview branch of the bench ... Court anonymises another lawyer in strife ... Double billing at the Law Society ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
May062021

Ridd's reef

The Peter Ridd case hits the High Court ... James Cook University's termination of an academic's employment ... The freedom to say whatever you like ... Free speech and all that ... Being beastly about other academics ... Promoting views contrary to mainstream science ... Hero of the climate deniers ... Untangling the Code of Conduct and the Enterprise Agreement ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Tuesday
May042021

Leverhulme's Letter from Blighty

Innocent until proven guilty, unless it's Boris Johnson ... No. 10 home decorations scandal ... Poor PM has to pay the light bill ... Complex politically correct card game ... Lockdown officially ends next month ... Snippets from High Court judge Sir Harry Ognall (RIP) 

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Friday
Apr302021

Suppressed tendencies

Depression and suppression ... Bring on the psychiatrists ... Special pleading for special people ... Identities scrubbed from the record ... Open justice takes the hindmost ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Apr302021

News that won't fit

No comment on whether NSW lawyers are police sources ... Schmo's mate the Police Commissioner has solved the Porter case, once and for all ... Attorney General adopts multiple positions on the Walama Court ... Rule of Law Institute planning to expose schoolies to fresh ideas about the courts ... Slump on coronial activities ... Theodora lays on her hands 

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Friday
Apr302021

The United States vs Billie Holiday

The FBI's obsession with Strange Fruit ... Music from the devil ... War Against Drugs ... Reluctance to give up lynching ... Un-American activities ... All that jazz ... Hoover on the case ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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