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"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." 

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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
Jun132018

When "no" can mean "yes"

• DateWednesday, June 13, 2018

A jury thought there was evidence that the complainant in the Luke Lazarus rape case was not consenting ... Yet the judges couldn't find a way to accept that ... Now we are likely to see some change to NSW's version of "consent" ... Community expectations at odds with the outcome 

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Monday
Jun112018

Ticket please

• DateMonday, June 11, 2018

Seize the day ... Audacious outsider trying to burst onto lawyers' patch ... When is legal work not legal work? ... Chicken Treat upset ... Unsuccessful attempt to introduce unticketed legal services ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Sunday
Jun102018

A post-institutional world

• DateSunday, June 10, 2018

The Law Institute of Victoria faces turmoil and losses ... Only 66 percent of practising solicitors are members ... The NSW solicitors club is booming with a 90 percent membership rate and a big fat balance sheet 

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Thursday
Jun072018

Barristers contretemps over Coco Roco fees

• DateThursday, June 7, 2018

Solicitor decides not to get in the way of barristers' stoush over fees ... Ancient defamation case still causing angst ... Three musketeers of the defamation bar jousting over a "small amount of money" ... Equity rescues the common law ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Friday
Jun012018

Back office

• DateFriday, June 1, 2018

ALRC in the senate spotlight ... Family Court PR machine challenged ... Hobart chambers no guns policy ... Latest Goings On with Theodora 

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Thursday
May312018

How to design a dromedary

• DateThursday, May 31, 2018

Family judges playing in the second division win the toss ... First division players to be sent off the field ... Welcome to the new-old Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - a multi-level judicial sweatshop where enmities can fester 

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Monday
May282018

Snowflakes rule

• DateMonday, May 28, 2018

London Calling ... Friends and colleagues of Leverhulme complain about entitled millennials ... Spoiled and complaining brats will be a problem for law firms ... Stories from the front line ... Royal wedding ... The safety of London taxis 

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Monday
May282018

Bill-able hours - my-nute increments

• DateMonday, May 28, 2018

Overstepping the crease ... Criticism of judges and how they handle it ... Geoffrey Ma, CJ of HK Final Court of Appeals, plays a straight bat ... UTS moot court and swearing in public ... Indigenous incarceration ... Around the Grounds with Boilermaker Bill 

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Sunday
May272018

Letter from London

• DateSunday, May 27, 2018

It hasn't been all beer and skittles as George Brandis settles in as the new High Commissioner to the UK ... An early missive from our man at Australia House ... Correspondence from lofty sources finds it's way to Justinian's in-tray 

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