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Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank ... Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan 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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      Justice Lee unstitches Lehrmann and leaves him naked on the couch
    • Financial Review
      Justice Lee ... Man of the moment ... A portrait
    • The Washington Post
      A look at the lawyers defending Trump in the Stormy Daniels New York criminal trial
    • The New York Times
      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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Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ... 

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Letter from London ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees ... Read more ... 

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Celebrity TV presenter and defamation defendant Lisa Wilkinson outside the court after Justice Lee's verdict in the Lehrmann case ... Aoril 15, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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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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Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more ... 

 

 

Monday
Aug202018

Pix People

• DateMonday, August 20, 2018

Family Court CJ on message with the attorney general ... Searching for Sarah Fregon's replacement at Vic's Bar ... Lease of life for Act of Settlement, 1701 ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Aug192018

Cases and catastrophes

• DateSunday, August 19, 2018

One more minus ... Support for Bernard Collaery ... Attempted throttling at chamber's drinkies ... Judges prefer Blackstone ... Dog of a case ... Adversarial difficulties in Latin America ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Aug162018

Rhodes scholars

• DateThursday, August 16, 2018

A gaggle of judges invade Rhodes ... The significance of Hellenism to contemporary legal issues ... Personal injury and audio-visual technology ... SA barristers stamping their tiny feet for QC gongs ... Murray Darling royal commission running out of water ... Significance for the Palace letters appeal ... Procrustes files 

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Friday
Aug102018

Family Court: facts v fiction

• DateFriday, August 10, 2018

"Sources close to the Family Court" prepare a fact sheet that shoots holes in "Christian" Porter's case for abolishing the court ... Lies, damn lies and blatant falsities ... Family law restructure farcical ... Pitch for survival as judges mount the battlements ... Here's the judges' fact sheet, in full ... 

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Friday
Aug102018

Inspector McClintock gives ICAC a clean bill of health

• DateFriday, August 10, 2018

Complaints against the NSW corruption watchdog dismissed ... Magistrate made an elementary mistake about exculpatory evidence  ... ICAC is not a court, it is part of the executive government ... Findings of corruption still stick despite bonkers beat-ups from News Corp hacks ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Friday
Aug102018

Life of Clive

• DateFriday, August 10, 2018

Clive Evatt leader of the defamation bar - RIP ... Passionate about plaintiffs, yet gave significant leg-ups to defendants ... Charming, wily and unrelenting ... The Evatt business model ... Dubious clients and desperate cases ... A big life beyond the law ... Thoughts from colleagues and opponents 

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Thursday
Aug092018

Our Man in Washington

• DateThursday, August 9, 2018

Sleaze and corruption at the centre of US government ... Functioning democracy under threat ... Presidential pardons ... Voter purges ... International law of no consequence to Brett Kavanaugh ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Tuesday
Aug072018

Getting Swift, one law firm at a time

• DateTuesday, August 7, 2018

Law shop bogged in class action fiasco ... Communicating with the forbidden fruit ... Correspondence that was "apt to mislead" ... Punished with indemnity costs ... Call for a rehearing with a different judge ... Nick Bonyhady reports from the Federal Court 

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Friday
Aug032018

Lionel Murphy and Freehills' costs

• DateFriday, August 3, 2018

How the government in 1986 paid Freehills $200,000 towards Justice Lionel Murphy's costs of two criminal trials ... Freehills had undertaken the work for Murphy on a no-charges basis, while leaving open the prospect of seeking a contribution from the government ... Freehills advises Murphy not to change lawyers ... Counsels' fees and disbursements ... Departmental heads sought to cap the payment ... Cabinet agrees to a costs payment of $420,473 ... From Stephen Murray at the National Archives 

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