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Friday
Dec162022

WA Madge says, 'don't mess with me'

• DateFriday, December 16, 2022

Contentious magistrate shifted from WA Children's Court ... Constitutional imperilment ... Independence of judicial officers ... Argy-bargy with head of jurisdiction ... Government meddling ... Big drama, according to Groper 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Another Jarndyce

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years ... Delays and apprehended bias ... Distain and disregard ... Going nowhere after eight years ... Retrial ordered ... Start again ... Artemus Jones reports 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Trump's tipping point

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

The stolen documents saga ... The attempted coup ... Legal problems piling up for Trump ... 70 million people in America still believe the dangerous fantasies of a disturbed mountebank ... Criminal servitude beckons ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Friday
Dec092022

Kompromat

, • DateFriday, December 9, 2022

Russians and their fake evidence ... Alliance Française in Siberia ... On the run from the FSB ... Svetlana to the rescue ... Suspense ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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Tuesday
Dec062022

Coco Pops

• DateTuesday, December 6, 2022

Over-wrought prison sentence for climate protestor ... United Nations dismayed ... Premier reading from a law n' order script ... "Way of life" under assault ... City street closed for a state government hoedown ... Protests should be "convenient" ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Dec062022

News Corp v Higgins

• DateTuesday, December 6, 2022

Perspective on a beat-up ... Politics and the police ... Sexual assault at Parliament House ... Police leak secret notes to warrior princess of the press ... Complainant attacked ... What's the agenda? ... Theodora looks back in wonder 

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Sunday
Dec042022

Draining the swamp

• DateSunday, December 4, 2022

Alleged costs conspiracy ... Drainage dispute induces hydra-headed litigation spree ... Professional indemnity insurance in peril ... Gross sum costs orders by the Hammer ... 20 years later on its goes ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Dec022022

The captured court

• DateFriday, December 2, 2022

Corporate influence targets top US judges ... Dark Money funding access to SCOTUS ... Ethics violations undisturbed ... Federalist Society turnstile ... Feedback loop ... Hunting expeditions ... Leaks of conservative-religious court decisions ... Clarence & Ginni - nothing to see here 

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Friday
Nov252022

Prosecution disappears under a bus

• DateFriday, November 25, 2022

South Australia ... Alleged abuse of public office ... Investigation of public servant's junkets ... Breach of German sovereignty ... Blunders by ICAC ...Prosecution collapses, twice ... Great moments in the law ... Max Shanahan reports 

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