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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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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
Feb022018

Immersion therapy

• DateFriday, February 2, 2018

Filling the heads of young students with an out-and-about view of the law ... Working in groups ... ABA's expensive knees-up in Canberra ... Immaculate conception of Queensland queenies ... Christian Porter takes off his clothes 

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Wednesday
Jan312018

Getting a Borching

• DateWednesday, January 31, 2018

Crocodile obsessed Top End tabloid skewers a judicial reptile ... Judge Greg Borchers and bullying from the bench ... Scoops aplenty as the tribe tries to close ranks ... From Buffalo Bruce 

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Friday
Jan262018

Choo-Choo: the trains stay on track

• DateFriday, January 26, 2018

Industrial bulletin ... Behind the scenes as the Fair Work Commission comes to grips with the threatened Sydney train strike ... Michael Harmer and the harm to his law firm ... Anxious school children made more anxious if train drivers didn't turn up for work ... Loose arguments aplenty ... Ryan Hunter on the case 

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Thursday
Jan252018

In a post-Tedeschi world

• DateThursday, January 25, 2018

NSW bar forces senior crown prosecutor to backtrack on directive about the conduct of trials and sentencing hearings ... Documents leaked ... A prosecutor's duty ... Telegraph misreporting ... Law n' Order beat-up ... Resignation 

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Monday
Jan222018

NSW Government Gazette

• DateMonday, January 22, 2018

NSW government expenditure on lawyers ... Production of new legislation slows ... Keeping shtum on the Suspect Target Management Plan ... AG and bar in barney over criminal trial delays ... Lies, damned lies and statistics 

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Friday
Jan122018

Clowning around

• DateFriday, January 12, 2018

Phone hacking the royals has a long history ... Prince Charles' 1981 calls from Australia back to Lady Di in London were taped by a group of conspirators looking for ways to sideline Malcolm Fraser's plan for Charles to become GG ... From our Royal correspondent Prunella Faux 

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Wednesday
Jan102018

Traumas of the law

• DateWednesday, January 10, 2018

Lawyers teetering on the edge ... Legal aid commissions and other agencies have been slow to grapple with traumatised lawyers handling child sexual assault cases ... The mental wreckage is more widespread that we like to think ... Sara Tomevska reports on a workplace war zone 

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Tuesday
Jan092018

Trump's kleptocracy

• DateTuesday, January 9, 2018

Michael Wolff's book has deflected attention from Republicans' perverted tax law ... Roger Fitch in Washington takes us back to the main game - the destruction of the social safety net by diverting squillions to large corporations and real estate investors ... US remains in violation of the Convention Against Torture ... Gitmo - still looking for a war to fit the war crimes ... Trump: how will it all end? 

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Friday
Dec152017

The horse called Self Interest

• DateFriday, December 15, 2017

Brexit's prolongued torture ... Lingering role in British law for European Court of Justice ... Fat Rascal trademark crisis ... Simnel cake faux pas ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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