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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 >> 

 

 

Sunday
Oct142018

Penfold's Reserve Bin

• DateSunday, October 14, 2018

Drowsy procrastination in full swing ... Lakeside litigation ... Family court effusions ... No sizzling sausages for family judges ... Carmody the Coalition's dream sentencer ... Longer terms for stale judges ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Thursday
Oct112018

Tales from Taswegia

• DateThursday, October 11, 2018

UPDATE ... Dutton's Tasmanian love child ... Slow wind-up ... Sentencing squabble: judges are sitting too close for the comfort of the convicted ... The forgotten prisoner ... The Devil's latest musings from The Map 

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Thursday
Oct112018

An illegitimate SCOTUS

• DateThursday, October 11, 2018

The US Supreme Court has been bought ... Long campaign to stack the court with judges favourable to corporate interests ... Huge lobbying and spending to secure Kavanaugh's confirmation ... Guns, God and presidential power ... The mid-terms and intensified voter purging ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Monday
Oct082018

Terrifying news - nothing's happening

• DateMonday, October 8, 2018

Police and their terrorism powers - not much to report ... Inspector Bruce looks at the Top End's secret corruption ... Discriminating amendments ... The bench gets slow backup for "historic" sentencing reforms ... Standoff over appointment to the Children's Court ... Polly Peck reports from Macquarie Street 

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Thursday
Oct042018

Man of property bids adieu to the jam roll

• DateThursday, October 4, 2018

Failure to pay tax, and employees super ... Borrowing heavily from his mother ... Lacking evidence to support bi-polar claim ... Extravagant lifestyle ... Generous payments for children and former wife ... Jennifer Cooke reports 

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Tuesday
Oct022018

Two Aunties

• DateTuesday, October 2, 2018

The long history of ABC dramas and threats to the public broadcaster's independence ... Churchill led the way with attacks on the Beeb ... Litigation that reinforced independence ... The buffeting will never stop ... Procrustes tunes in 

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Thursday
Sep272018

A tribute to Homer Simpson

• DateThursday, September 27, 2018

Homer mysteriously appears in consent orders ... A long way from Springfield ... Country solicitor turns on client with complaint to judge, asking for a reconsideration of the orders granted ... Client's interest ... Confidentiality ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Tuesday
Sep252018

Depression dispatches

• DateTuesday, September 25, 2018

Solicitors losing their grip ... Mental health and legal practice ... No adequate explanations offered to the stipes ... Judges under siege ... Where mental health prevents a lawyer dealing with professional complaints ... Ticket suspended ... Jennifer Cooke reports from the Bureau de Spank 

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Monday
Sep242018

When only the victim speaks the truth

• DateMonday, September 24, 2018

Book review ... A story of childhood sexual assault ... Where the complainant is distressed that the accused's evidence questioned her version of events ... Joanna Jenkins defends natural justice in the face of a victim's anger ... Job of the judge to present both cases to the jury ... Sentencing juvenile offenders 

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