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Friday
Jul152016

The mystery of the silk fairy

• DateFriday, July 15, 2016

Mary Walker v NSW Bar Association ... NSW bar silk selection - where Franz Kafka meets Harold Pinter ... Debriefing conversations ... Protocol perils ... Popularity contests ... Bar council's struggle to get to grips with policy decisions  

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Tuesday
Jul122016

Rebirthing OzCar

• DateTuesday, July 12, 2016

Credit Suisse boss sues Melbourne University Press over the Godwin Grech chapter in Paddy Manning's biography of Malcolm Turnbull ... Unhappy memories of Malcolm's earlier attempt at leadership ... Love letters from Godwin ... Defamatorium 

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Friday
Jul082016

The vote that doesn't count

• DateFriday, July 8, 2016

Same sex marriage plebiscite far from a sure thing ... Brandis' proposal for compulsory voting hits a constitutional impediment ... Parliamentary vote the only way to resolve the issue 

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Friday
Jul082016

The Pauper v The Prince

• DateFriday, July 8, 2016

Screwball High Court judge in England threatens barristers over silk appointments following critical letter in The Times ... Court of Appeal says judge's conduct is "shocking ... disgraceful ... deplorable" ... Pannick stations 

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Thursday
Jul072016

The constitutionality of unrepresentative swill

• DateThursday, July 7, 2016

One Nation's senators-elect and their brushes with the law ... Queensland Court of Appeal avoided getting too close to the facts in the Hanson fraud case ... One Nation candidate from WA up before the court for car theft ... Ineligibility and the Constitution  

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Wednesday
Jul062016

Wolf Watch

• DateWednesday, July 6, 2016

Big changes in Waterstreet World ... Helping women barristers hits an ideological wall ... Soapy expected to stay on his soapbox 

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Friday
Jul012016

"United" Kingdom's amazing scenes

• DateFriday, July 1, 2016

London Calling ... British politics goes wobbly post-Brexit vote ... Contenders line-up for Tory leadership ... Who are they? ... Boris bonked out of the field ... Labour in chaos ... Leverhulme explains 

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Thursday
Jun302016

Term's up for the US Supremes

• DateThursday, June 30, 2016

US Supremes scraping along one judge down ... Clarence Thomas distinguishes himself ... The failed Guantánamo experiment ... Detainees banned from reading senate's Feinstein report ... FOI and the release of CIA torture documents ... Obama adopts slabs of Bush law ... Lawyer donors snub Trump ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Thursday
Jun302016

Keeping an eye on a future attorney general

• DateThursday, June 30, 2016

State politics ... Ambitious law and order barrister and MP making waves on the backbench ... Frontbench beckons ... The story of the missing fee agreement  

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