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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent." 

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 

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Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Friday
May052017

Rares as hens' teeth

• DateFriday, May 5, 2017

Federal Court judge throws down the gauntlet ... Solicitors told to keep off the bar's patch ... Too many solicitors spoiling the broth ... Barristers are more efficient and cheaper! ... The client's "best interests" 

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Friday
May052017

Not so wonderful Copenhagen

• DateFriday, May 5, 2017

Denmark ... Great at furniture design, but wanting in legal education ... Maybe it's because university education is free ... (N.B. Malcolm Turnbull) ... An LLM exchange student looks for the rigour ... Hygge more important than a high paying job ... Hannah Wootton files from Copenhagen 

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Tuesday
May022017

Nowhere land

• DateTuesday, May 2, 2017

Kafkaesque passport scenario ... New "effective and efficient procedures" ... Stuck in immigration detention while seeking to be removed to Pakistan ... Nauru or PNG would be better than Villawood ... Shades of Al-Kateb ... From Sohini Mehta 

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Sunday
Apr302017

Outwitted

• DateSunday, April 30, 2017

Barely Legal hallucinates about the Witness Examination Competition ... Three rounds in a haze of Codeine ... The triumph of the inquisitorial learning process ... Winning, losing - who knows 

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Saturday
Apr292017

The search for Australian values

• DateSaturday, April 29, 2017

Driven by suspicion and fear ... The store detective cases ... The "intuitive" actions of the Border Protection brigade ... Persecution of artists ... Cases that reflect different traditions ... How broadminded and tolerant are we, Procrustes asks? 

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Wednesday
Apr262017

Gleeson's beach boy phase

• DateWednesday, April 26, 2017

Former solicitor general has city gaff on the market ... Allan Myers up close ... Drowsy procrastination out west ... Wooden hammers for British judges ... Tamil Watch 

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Monday
Apr242017

Black is the new black

• DateMonday, April 24, 2017

New judges' robes for the VicSupremes ... Strength and modernity is the message ... History binned in move towards more modest judicial dress-ups ... From our Melbourne blogger Peach Melba 

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Sunday
Apr232017

Taxes and professional death

• DateSunday, April 23, 2017

No tax returns for 11 years sees shyster struck off the jam roll ... Driving and practising law without licenses ... Which is worse? ... Underworld connections  

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Thursday
Apr202017

The persecution of Kate McCann

• DateThursday, April 20, 2017

The media has been at its salacious worst in the case of missing child Madeleine McCann ... Kate McCann given the Lindy Chamberlain treatment ... Tabloid and broadsheets alike questioned her authenticity ... "Yummy mummy and neurotic recluse" ... Social media trolls the least of it ... The tragedy made worse by bungling Portuguese police and judiciary ... From Sohini Mehta 

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