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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
Nov192021

Police prosecutor in Shakespearean succession drama

• DateFriday, November 19, 2021

NSW Supreme Court says prosecutor engaged in "vile" behaviour ... Persecution of step-mother ... False accusation of murder ... Unreliable evidence ... Discreditable conduct by a lawyer ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

Winning ways

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Rockhampton solicitor goes down ... Drunken offering of a "lazy quid" to the constables ... Corruption ... Adornment to the legal caper ... Offer of cash not seen as a joke ... A real charmer ... Foul mouthed bikie lawyer sentenced to the clink ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

An excess of venality

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Guns everywhere for everyone - Supreme Court to decide ... Judiciary stuffed with Trumpists ... Bannon mired in Congressional contempt ... Insurrection of January 6 ... Ex-president consumed by litigation ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

, • DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders ... Freedom ... Sovereignty ... Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy ... Warfare among litigation crowdfunders ... Excitable foot soldiers ... Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

I once met ... Joh Bjelke-Petersen

• DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975 

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Friday
Nov122021

Vital snippets

, • DateFriday, November 12, 2021

No mug for Cash ... Simon bucks High Court tradition ... Defrocked barrister goes into the consulting business ... Deselecting Black jurors ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Nov102021

Forward to the '50s

, • DateWednesday, November 10, 2021

Update ... New-Old guard sweeps back at Vic Bar's election ... Conservative candidates with the big how-to-vote brochures ... More of the same ... Elites swiping other elites ... Fury at pandemic management legislation ... Stasi in charge ... Career crippling mojitos at Tory silk's gaff  ... Shadow AG's crashes his career ... Phew 

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Tuesday
Nov092021

Cough ... Cough

• DateTuesday, November 9, 2021

Fresh letter from the Spires ... Cacophony of coughing at students' matriculation ceremony ... Viral spray covers everything in Covid ravaged landscape ... Shift work for the vice-chancellor ... Barely Legal reports 

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Friday
Nov052021

That's Life

• DateFriday, November 5, 2021

It's Double Bay, darling ... Woolworths ... Harris Farm ... Fighting for prime retail patch ... Law firm's negligence ... Maddocks in the frame for $13 million ... Record damages 

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