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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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      The true legacy of the rapist George Pell
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      Dozens of federal prosecutors sacked by Trump lickspittle Pam Bondi ... The January 6 attack on the Capitol never happened
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      The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy ... Rebecca Solnit
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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... 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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
May152024

Mysterious shield of the Crown

• DateWednesday, May 15, 2024

Sexual disability ... Strong men  ... Privatisation ... Housing crisis ... Immunity of the Crown ... Procrustes and the kitchen sink 

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Friday
May102024

Strikings off

• DateFriday, May 10, 2024

Fit and proper ... Latest rulings from WA and NSW ... Solicitors attraction to other people's money ... Abject departure from the gold standard ... Anthony Kanaan looks at how unfit and improper you have to be in order to get de-rolled  

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Tuesday
May072024

Dark and Stormy times in the US of A

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Tuesday
May072024

Did Justice Lee get it wrong?

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

More on the omnishambles ... Holes in Justice Lee's Lehrmann findings on truth ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points 

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Thursday
May022024

Around town

, • DateThursday, May 2, 2024

Punctuation advice from Vic's bar ... Feds throw the book at library marriage ... Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation ... Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime ... Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil ... Hands up for silk in Aotearoa ... Theodora's latest rounds 

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Tuesday
Apr302024

Other Voices, Other Rooms

• DateTuesday, April 30, 2024

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 

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Friday
Apr262024

Great contributions to litigation

• DateFriday, April 26, 2024

Tribute to the hopeless litigant ... Vito, vitare, vitavi, vitatus ... Vexatious fighter moves to another jurisdiction ... Trail of exasperation and failure ... End of a headache ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Wednesday
Apr242024

Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank

• DateWednesday, April 24, 2024

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 

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Friday
Apr192024

Judges on the tear

• DateFriday, April 19, 2024

Priceless ... District Court chief judge takes a bow on the way out ... Leading lights of the law clamouring for bottles of Chateau d' Price ... Justice David Hammerschlag goes to the movies ... New release out now ... Theodora does the rounds 

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