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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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Gageler CJ cuts the ribbon ... Austlii embarks on massive High Court digitisation ... Early unreported judgments ... Transcripts ... Submissions ... Motions ... The works ... Plus 37 seminal High Court cases ... Eight available in the first tranch ... 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 ... 

"Dr Emma J. Jones from the University of Sheffield in the UK was pleased to see that the dialogue had moved on from ways to ensure lawyers survived amidst problems with wellbeing. She noted that the focus had gone beyond that - to being about thriving and flourishing."

Message to the legal profession from the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner Fiona McLeay, following a Wellness for Law Forum, March 21, 2014 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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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 ... 


 

 

 

Thursday
Feb202020

Choking Chorley to death

Fees stoush reaches Vic Appeals ... Abolition of the Chorley exception applies to law firms acting for themselves in litigation ... Herbert Smith Freehills not entitled to recover costs in dispute over failed float of petrol distributor ... Hi-ho Silver ... Argument rejected that employed solicitors working for partners should be able to recover fees ... Solicitors on the record acting in their own cause ... Not even Bret Walker could save the day ... Stephen Murray reports  

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Sunday
Feb162020

A year's worth of golden threads

Theodora and Miss Ginger Snatch put their heads together and recall the highs and lows of 2019 ... Lawyers and the law ... Reliving the stories that tickled our fancy ... Entertaining judges ... Law shops in the frame ... Silken ones ... Courts in the act ... Bureau de Spank ... And heaps more 

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Thursday
Feb132020

What's on Porter's plate?

Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Feb122020

60,000 years later

The High Court grapples with the First Australians as aliens ... Legal minefield ... No joint judgments here ... Blood, country and belonging ... The unique position of Aboriginal Australians ... Section 51 ... Mabo (No 2) ... Powerful judgments ... Culture warriors on the ramparts ... Artemus Jones analyses each of the seven judgments 

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Friday
Feb072020

L'état, c'est Trump

Impeachment and acquittal ... Sham trial ... Dubious defence lawyers with incoherent arguments ... Constitutional nonsense ... A mess that John Roberts CJ helped create ... Torture lawyers still peddling their soiled wares ... Roger Fitch reports from the wasteland of Washington

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Friday
Jan312020

Dubious developments on the Torrens

Court of Appeal for Crow Eaters ... Flummery from a vacuous attorney general ... Judge shortage ... Secret report on botched Keogh trial ... Payouts piling up ... Justice becomes the plaything of politicians ... Procrustes writes from the nation's murder capital 

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Friday
Jan312020

Lifting the lid on Kerr's coup

Sir John Kerr's correspondence in the High Court ... Submissions in the Archives case ... Commonwealth property or personal property ... What is being hidden? ... Accessing governor general's letters about the sacking of the Whitlam government ... Bret Walker v Stephen Donaghue ... Alan Zheng sifts through the paperwork 

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Thursday
Jan302020

Crêpes Suzette

Bad tempered Madge ticked-off in the Queensland District Court ... Misunderstanding basic legal requirements on multiple occasions ... Fundamental errors ... Flawed costs order ... Inappropriate behaviour from the bench ... Petulant sprays ... Sucking eggs ... The works ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Jan282020

Circus Court's procedural snafu

Justice Debra Mortimer goes to town on "certain Federal Circuit Court judges" who make it a "common practice" to deliver written reasons after the appeal time has expired ... Canine court "interactions" ... Tasmanian briefs lured by the idea that life will be better if the royal trinket is reinstated ... Theodora reports 

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