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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 >> 

 

 

Friday
Feb022024

Cossack in orbit with Planet

• DateFriday, February 2, 2024

Walter Sofronoff and Janet Albrechtsen ... Lehrmann trial investigation ... An alluring coupling ... Sensitive information at play ... Feeding select reptiles ... Claims of prejudice and bias infecting the report ... Where's Brucie's house? ... Comment 

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Thursday
Feb012024

The slow lane - no overtaking

• DateThursday, February 1, 2024

End of year deliveries ... Delayed judgments under the tree ... Records broken ... Trouble with time ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jan312024

Dodging bullets

• DateWednesday, January 31, 2024

Idi Amin and Roger Rogerson - brothers-in-law ... Procrustes draws an analogy ... Cultivating psychopaths and ignoring the consequences ... How Rogerson spun stories to gullible hacks ... The killer cop with a lisp 

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Tuesday
Jan302024

A not so dry January

• DateTuesday, January 30, 2024

Floyd Alexander-Hunt's Letter from London ... The lawyer-juror who searched the internet for answers ... 15-months is seen as a serious delay for judgment delivery ... Large-scale miscarriage of justice in fake fraud allegations ... The delivery driver who acted as an agent for panel beaters 

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Monday
Jan292024

The Disunited States of America

• DateMonday, January 29, 2024

The cowboys of Texas ... Asserting control over immigration ... Operation Lone Star ... Confederate theory of secession is alive and kicking ... Usurping federal powers ... Trump judges to the rescue ... Wild defence claims in election conspiracy case ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Monday
Jan082024

Wrap of the Lehrmann defamation trial

, • DateMonday, January 8, 2024

Written closing submissions in Lehrmann defamation proceedings ... Claim of "confirmation bias" by Channel 10 ... Applicant and respondent both said to be dishonest ... Lehrmann wants substantial damages, even sexual intercourse is established ... Lehrmann's denials amount to "utterly wicked" conduct ... From Stephen Murray, Courts Editor for the Gazette of Law & Journalism 

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Friday
Dec222023

2023 - Lest We Forget

• DateFriday, December 22, 2023

A flood of unhappy memories ... A Voiceless Nation ... Corruption triage ... Judges in the slow lane ... Defamatorium ... Saloon refurbishment ... Tribunal upgrade ... Stinging Nettle v The Judd ... Quotes chiseled in stone ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Dec182023

Grant Donaldson SC

• DateMonday, December 18, 2023

High profile Sand Groper from the WA bar n' grill is On the Couch ... Films, music, books ... Cases and crimes ... Preventative detention in migration cases ... Closed courts ... Eyes shut yet still awake 

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Friday
Dec152023

Big week with the zombies

• DateFriday, December 15, 2023

High Court and UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration detainees ... Fear and loathing ... Remembering Gerry Hand ... Parliament's pre-Christmas meltdown ... Judiciary to sprinkle magic water over re-incarcerations ... Procrustes on the creeping encroachment of the State  

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