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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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Oct052022

Exceptional circumstances

, • DateWednesday, October 5, 2022

Where's the sunshine? ... Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks ... Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings ... The hurdle is already unnecessarily high ... What reputational damage? ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct042022

Jayne gets High

• DateTuesday, October 4, 2022

Jayne Jagot ... A humble non-silk ... She reached for the stars ... A serious case of the smarts ... Identified by Mark Dreyfus at least seven years ago ... Significant judgments ... High Court test in Chelmsford looming ... Rarely without trousers ... Theodora reports 

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Saturday
Oct012022

The Mason-Katz Doctrine

• DateSaturday, October 1, 2022

Appointments to AAT ... Questions of constitutional invalidity ... Pre-election Coalition gifts ... Unsuitable appointments ... Dreyfus responds ... Former judges raise issues of legitimacy ... Extended and overlapping terms ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Sep302022

Down with the Magyar judges

• DateFriday, September 30, 2022

How Viktor Orbán and Hungary's right wing populists have choked the independence of the judiciary ... Legislative "reforms" ... Step-by-step creation of an "Illiberal-Christian Democracy" ... Constitutional Court neutered ... Roadmap to autocracy ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep232022

Recusal report

• DateFriday, September 23, 2022

Department of bad looks ... Defamation judge in WA refuses to step aside from a trial in which she had previously worked for the plaintiff's counsel ... Non-disclosure of prior working relationship ... Cherry picking ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep222022

News from on High

• DateThursday, September 22, 2022

Latest Simon Steward reversal ... 6-0 finding by the High Court ... Fourth time on the outer ... What went wrong? ... Selection process not up to scratch ... Plus, the inquiry into Brother Scott's multiple ministries ... Fortunately, a retired member of the Saloon is available for the heavy lifting ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep212022

Round up the usual suspects

• DateWednesday, September 21, 2022

Lifting a necklace and $20 ... High risk detention swings into action ... High Court sprinkles more fairy dust on executive imprisonment ... Alarming rate of Indigenous incarceration in WA made worse ... Political populism ... Procrustes examines the "feel safe" factor 

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Tuesday
Sep202022

Justice on a war footing

• DateTuesday, September 20, 2022

The war-torn justice system in Ukraine ... Struggling to cope when courts are bombed ... Judges and staff dislocated ... Law firms shuttered ... Expansion of state powers ... War crimes ... Collaboration with occupiers ... Extraordinary circumstances ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Monday
Sep192022

Disorder and decay

• DateMonday, September 19, 2022

Trump's attempted document theft ... Missing pages from confidential files ... Trouble for former president's lawyers ... Patsy judge's flawed reasons ... State judges up for election in November ... Republicans working on the judicial stack ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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