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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." 

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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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Apr182024

Plus ça change

• DateThursday, April 18, 2024

Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files 

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Thursday
Apr182024

An omnibus of quotes

• DateThursday, April 18, 2024

Justice Lee and his Thesaurus ... Referencing the references ... Context and history ... The underlying warp and weft ... Words and meaning ... Byways of language ... Associate of judges Miss Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Apr122024

Merits review

, • DateFriday, April 12, 2024

AAT member's unzipped opinions ... Conservative elbows flailing in all directions ... Unrestrained by convention ... Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar ... Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs ... Fascination with gilded embroidery ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Apr112024

Celebrations at the Lubyanka

• DateThursday, April 11, 2024

NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges 

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Wednesday
Apr102024

News from the Rialto

• DateWednesday, April 10, 2024

A veteran litigant burning through solicitors ... Sydney barrister trading without a ticket ... A string of criminal accusations against the Victorian Supreme Court ... Latest in lamentable of legal follies and professional foibles ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Thursday
Apr042024

The greatest disaster since Oscar Wilde

• DateThursday, April 4, 2024

Unknown unknowns ... Known unknowns ... Where to next for Brucie Boy? ... Media mayhem ... Witness intimidation ... Hacks hacking at each other ... Harriet Harman and the world of implied undertakings ... From Ginger Snatch in the front row 

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Tuesday
Apr022024

Algorithmic injustices

• DateTuesday, April 2, 2024

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 

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Wednesday
Mar272024

Courtroom capers

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Trump ... Looking for the cash bond ... Lenders likely to be stiffed ... Supreme Court bends over for Trump ... Novel arguments for immunity ... Idiocy has its appeal ... From Washington, Roger Fitch reports 

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Wednesday
Mar272024

Happy ending?

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Thai massages ... Brittany Higgins private communications ... NACC looks at leaks to media hacks ... Contempt of court ... Hitting on Leon Zwier ... Vendetta ... New pastures for Whybrow ... The Federal Court and the defamation racket ... From our Chief City Correspondent 

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