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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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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
Nov242022

AAT: appointments pending

• DateThursday, November 24, 2022

AAT ... Three months appointments for expiring members ... AG to assess the list of those who have their hand up for another spin of the wheel ... Some strange omissions ... No explanations ... Basil Gray reports 

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Wednesday
Nov232022

The Planet shivers

• DateWednesday, November 23, 2022

Tom Toms following journalist's speech ... Galah dinner ... Conniptions from ACT lawyers ... Tears and dismay ... Lawyers must not be critiqued ... Speakers required to bolster and flatter ... Amendments affecting Lehrmann retrial ... Theodora surveys the carnage 

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Monday
Nov212022

Boyfriend trouble

• DateMonday, November 21, 2022

Shine lawyer sent to re-education camp ... Playing the G string ... Romantic representation ... Shame and embarrassment ... Substantial Failure v Consistent Failure ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

RBG: Of Many, One

• DateTuesday, November 15, 2022

Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Heather Mitchell as "Notorious RBG" ... Review by Braham Dabscheck 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

Western Mail

• DateTuesday, November 15, 2022

Judgment delivered in another Lloyd Rayney defamation case ... Two years gestation ... Recusal application denied ... Appeal pending ... Another Perth supermodel not getting up for under $10,000 a day ... Appeal judges ask for more details of work done ... Groper reports  

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Monday
Nov142022

Election deniers get elected

• DateMonday, November 14, 2022

Roger Fitch in Washington takes a close look at the mid-term results ... Abortion probably played a bigger role than the Big Lie ... Pre-election meddling by the Supreme Court ... Not all the crazies lost ... The Republican House has inquisitions planned ... Voting rights and abortion protected in some state ballots 

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Friday
Nov112022

The Restoration

• DateFriday, November 11, 2022

RIP Bob Ellicott ... Former solicitor general, MP, attorney general and judge ... Contention dogged his political career ... "Bullshit" advice about the governor general's power to remove a government ... In the thick of November 11, 1975 

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Wednesday
Nov092022

Lunar event

• DateWednesday, November 9, 2022

An exam paper with built-in "reputational damage" ... University grovels to upset law student ... Same scenario used in earlier exams ... Extension of time granted for stress ... Max Shanahan reports on an awful calamity 

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Sunday
Nov062022

Scandalum magnatum

DateSunday, November 6, 2022

Murdoch v Crikey ... Round one ... Public interest defence holds up ... Application to strike out the pleadings rejected ... Case management ... Public interest defence has legs and arms ... Why do titans need to crush their critics? ... Another blockbuster  

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