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Pastoral care ... The money issue … Tiddlywinks young man … Private school goes public – courtesy of the ABC … Cranbrook’s latest expulsions … The Billionaires’ Bible … Fairy dust for unrest in Gaza … Ruth Bader Ginsburg spinning in her crypt … Fresh interpretations for the rule of law ... Read on ... 

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      Justice Lee unstitches Lehrmann and leaves him naked on the couch
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      Justice Lee ... Man of the moment ... A portrait
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      A look at the lawyers defending Trump in the Stormy Daniels New York criminal trial
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      Breakdown at law firm that represented Dominion in the Fax defamation case ... Partners peel off ... Complaints about "management style"
    • The New Yorker
      Hitler's final rise to power ... Germany a democracy that handed power to someone who could never claim a majority in an election and whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown
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It's customary ... Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files ... Read more ... 

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Letter from London ... Brits obsession with the Royals ... Staffers in the frame for attempted theft of Princess Kate's medical records ... Bitcoin liberated from false claims by Satoshi Nakamoto ... Struck off for inflated time records ... Rwanda - plain sailing ahead ... From our correspondent in Blighty, Floyd Alexander-Hunt ... 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

Sofronoff scuppered ... A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland ... Read more ... 

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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 ... 

 

 

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Thursday
Feb112021

Lunar New Year

• DateThursday, February 11, 2021

Grand Poobah judicial snog ... Thirst-quenching at fault ... Late night knee balancing routine ... News from The Map ... Photo in circulation ... From our Tasmanian affairs correspondent 

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Friday
Feb052021

Secret sheriffs' business

• DateFriday, February 5, 2021

South Australian chief justice lashes the use of secret evidence by parliamentary inquiry ... Finding of a culture of bullying in the Sheriff's Office ... Ummm ... This is the same CJ, who as solicitor general, assisted in plans for secret police intelligence to be unchallenged in court ... Procrustes reports on the storm that has spilled from the teacup 

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Tuesday
Feb022021

A smoking ruin

• DateTuesday, February 2, 2021

Republicans cling to Trump ... A short history of white supremacists and electoral disruption ... Neo-Confederates on the march ... Trafficking in pardons and associated sleaze ... Roger Fitch in Washington on Trump's grotesque legacy 

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Thursday
Jan282021

Resumption of play

, • DateThursday, January 28, 2021

Inflated terrace decorations ... Here comes "Mandy Jane" ... Council of the Order of Australia gets Stoned ... Law 'n' order at the Top End ... Post-Covid life at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Theodora does the rounds 

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Tuesday
Jan262021

Christos moves on

• DateTuesday, January 26, 2021

Shake-up at Commonwealth AGs ... Siren call of the Afghanistan war crimes investigation ... Notetaker's notes go missing and with it evidence relating an an "improper inducement" ... Rekindling memories of the AHRC's Forgotten Children report ... Polly Peck remembers 

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Saturday
Jan232021

Tribunal top-ups

• DateSaturday, January 23, 2021

Latest batch of AAT appointments ... Christmas delivery from The Christian ... A few lawyers and plenty of the faithful included ... A notable deputy president goes missing 

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Tuesday
Jan192021

Darwinian legacy

• DateTuesday, January 19, 2021

Survival of the fittest ...Alistair Wyvill cleared ... Eight year toxic Top End drama draws to a close ... Disciplinary Tribunal squelches NT Supreme Court judge and Stella Maris commissioner ... Pro Bono termination ... Procedural unfairness ... No finding of ulterior strategy ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Thursday
Jan142021

Murder at sea

, • DateThursday, January 14, 2021

Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation 

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Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

• DateTuesday, January 12, 2021
Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports 

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