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Tuesday
Aug252015

Costly HIH fallout

• DateTuesday, August 25, 2015

Claim that Sydney solicitor overcharged former HIH executive $700,000 ... Byzantine submissions ... HH says time to stop the skirmishing and get on with the trial ... Kate Lilly reporting 

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Tuesday
Aug252015

Pollies huddle in Cunneen's corner

• DateTuesday, August 25, 2015

Leaks, Latham and Levine ... NSW parliamentary committee on ICAC gets to work ... Transcript released ... Putting "free kicks and butterflies" in context ... Questions that ICAC need not answer ... Frisson on display ... Alex Mitchell ringside 

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Wednesday
Aug192015

Master tacticians 

• DateWednesday, August 19, 2015

Leverhulme looks at the work of John Freeman of Face to Face fame and Jeremy Hutchinson QC, the top trial lawyer of his time  ... Cross examining Lord Birkett and other treats ... London Calling 

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Wednesday
Aug192015

Dysing with disaster

• DateWednesday, August 19, 2015

UPDATE ... Wrinkles in the Dyson Heydon story ... Parsing the emails ... A speech lost for all time ... Pulling out of the Barwick lecture moments before the story broke ... A history of "overlooking" ... Amazements aplenty 

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Monday
Aug172015

Bush lawyers are just the ticket

• DateMonday, August 17, 2015

The worst job market for new lawyers is in South Australia ... SA law society's ethics unit examining a new law firm that promises work and training for lawyer interns, if they pay $20,000 plus ... In the meantime, the message for new graduates is "go bush" ... Barely Legal blogs 

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Friday
Aug142015

Fees please

• DateFriday, August 14, 2015

Years of to-and-fro between tribunal and appeal court over failure to pay barrister's fee and other complaints against a NSW solicitor ... John Basten takes control and six years after the law society issued a summary reprimand, that decision is upheld ... Kate Lilly on the case 

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Friday
Aug142015

"A stainless reputation for punctilious integrity"

• DateFriday, August 14, 2015

Ideological warrior Dyson Heydon lets his ultra-conservative credentials hang out ... Not a good look ... The varied quality of "punctilious integrity" ... Stainless commissioner stains the Royal Commission 

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Monday
Aug102015

A "must" read

• DateMonday, August 10, 2015

Timbo's last judgment as Qld CJ ... Contenders for the chief's job ... Ken Hayne's portrait 

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Monday
Aug102015

Librarian's lament

• DateMonday, August 10, 2015

Victimisation at the NSW ODPP ... Why is Silbert's advice on Cunneen secret? ... Police bring their guns to court ... Tony Abbott on the role of the courts - the new Joh Bjelke Petersen ... Waterstreet with rough fingers 

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