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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
Nov032022

Heaven's gateway

• DateThursday, November 3, 2022

Vic Bar readers' course and exam ... Monstrously hard exam with high failure rate ... Clogged course ... Bulging waiting lists ... Skewed demographic of bar entrants ... The overflow ... Barriers to entry ... Joseph Friedman reports 

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Wednesday
Nov022022

On the rack

• DateWednesday, November 2, 2022

UN's torture inspectors turn tail ... Rebuffed in Queanbeyan ... Snail like progress on compliance system ... Funding snafu ... Australia's new human rights agenda takes a hit ... Max Shanahan with the story 

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Monday
Oct312022

Recklessly different

• DateMonday, October 31, 2022

NSW Law Society swaps sides to support the solicitor it had wanted struck off ... NCAT out of line in trust account case ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Law Society's original complaint lacked clarity ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct252022

Furious activity

, • DateTuesday, October 25, 2022

Vic's bar in ructions over election ticket ... NSW bar loses another fine old hand ... Bookshelves Brandis - a threat to the rule of law ... Alarm on appeal filing fees ... KC ordered out of court ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Oct232022

Marijuana mañana

• DateSunday, October 23, 2022

The ins and outs of cannabis legalisation ... Proposals from Greens senator David Shoebridge ... Constitutional possibilities ... Forget the states ... Let the Commonwealth light-up ... External affairs ... Patents ... Referral powers ... Max Shanahan takes a puff 

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Friday
Oct212022

Vote early, vote often

• DateFriday, October 21, 2022

Law Society of NSW ... Election watch ... Vote for a revamped council ... Proxies and pressure ... Lack of transparency on expenditures ... Consultant babble ... Other reforms are more pressing ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Oct142022

The Large Firm Society

• DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Sweeping constitutional change for the Phillip Street lawyers' temple ... Handing control to the top dogs ... Resistance mounts ... AGM looms ... Patronage possibilities ... NZ Law Society loses a president ... Cultural review ... Theodora files 

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Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

, • DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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