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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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Sunday
Aug192018

Cases and catastrophes

• DateSunday, August 19, 2018

One more minus ... Support for Bernard Collaery ... Attempted throttling at chamber's drinkies ... Judges prefer Blackstone ... Dog of a case ... Adversarial difficulties in Latin America ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Aug162018

Rhodes scholars

• DateThursday, August 16, 2018

A gaggle of judges invade Rhodes ... The significance of Hellenism to contemporary legal issues ... Personal injury and audio-visual technology ... SA barristers stamping their tiny feet for QC gongs ... Murray Darling royal commission running out of water ... Significance for the Palace letters appeal ... Procrustes files 

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Friday
Aug102018

Family Court: facts v fiction

• DateFriday, August 10, 2018

"Sources close to the Family Court" prepare a fact sheet that shoots holes in "Christian" Porter's case for abolishing the court ... Lies, damn lies and blatant falsities ... Family law restructure farcical ... Pitch for survival as judges mount the battlements ... Here's the judges' fact sheet, in full ... 

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Friday
Aug102018

Inspector McClintock gives ICAC a clean bill of health

• DateFriday, August 10, 2018

Complaints against the NSW corruption watchdog dismissed ... Magistrate made an elementary mistake about exculpatory evidence  ... ICAC is not a court, it is part of the executive government ... Findings of corruption still stick despite bonkers beat-ups from News Corp hacks ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Friday
Aug102018

Life of Clive

• DateFriday, August 10, 2018

Clive Evatt leader of the defamation bar - RIP ... Passionate about plaintiffs, yet gave significant leg-ups to defendants ... Charming, wily and unrelenting ... The Evatt business model ... Dubious clients and desperate cases ... A big life beyond the law ... Thoughts from colleagues and opponents 

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Thursday
Aug092018

Our Man in Washington

• DateThursday, August 9, 2018

Sleaze and corruption at the centre of US government ... Functioning democracy under threat ... Presidential pardons ... Voter purges ... International law of no consequence to Brett Kavanaugh ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Tuesday
Aug072018

Getting Swift, one law firm at a time

• DateTuesday, August 7, 2018

Law shop bogged in class action fiasco ... Communicating with the forbidden fruit ... Correspondence that was "apt to mislead" ... Punished with indemnity costs ... Call for a rehearing with a different judge ... Nick Bonyhady reports from the Federal Court 

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Friday
Aug032018

Lionel Murphy and Freehills' costs

• DateFriday, August 3, 2018

How the government in 1986 paid Freehills $200,000 towards Justice Lionel Murphy's costs of two criminal trials ... Freehills had undertaken the work for Murphy on a no-charges basis, while leaving open the prospect of seeking a contribution from the government ... Freehills advises Murphy not to change lawyers ... Counsels' fees and disbursements ... Departmental heads sought to cap the payment ... Cabinet agrees to a costs payment of $420,473 ... From Stephen Murray at the National Archives 

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Friday
Jul272018

Hospital bulletin

• DateFriday, July 27, 2018

Former High Court judge has serious surgery ... CPA man takes interim helm at LIV ... Law librarians throw the book at LexisNexis ... Retired ACT judge still producing judgments ... Meet the Porters ... Goings On with Theodora 

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