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My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >> 

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Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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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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NSW Premier Chris Minns, endorsing Mal Lanyon, his pick for Police Commissioner, whose contributions to public life include shouting drunken obscenities at a paramedic who came to his aid, and commandeering a police launch for private entertainment on New Year's eve ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Friday
Sep292017

Workplace grief

• DateFriday, September 29, 2017

Sex discrimination and harassment complaints against HWL Ebsworth ... NCAT hearing ... The case shows signs of devouring significant time and costs 

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Tuesday
Sep262017

What has Dietrich been up to?

• DateTuesday, September 26, 2017

A dip into September's cases brought under Victoria's Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities ... Human rights of prisoners and Sikhs at school ... So far the world hasn't collapsed ... Peach Melba on the front line 

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Monday
Sep252017

Fresh cases for a new term

• DateMonday, September 25, 2017

Momentous cases await the US Supremes in its new term: gerrymandering - wedding cakes - purging voter rolls ... "Deferred compensation" for Obama ... Republican states v Democrat cities ... Latest attacks on voting rights ... How come Republicans have locked in Texas? ... Our Man in Washington Roger Fitch explains 

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Monday
Sep252017

Hilton bombed

• DateMonday, September 25, 2017

The intercept that undid Howard Hilton ... Conspiracy to corrupt the corrupt Rex Jackson ... After 30 years of unfitness, NSW CA says Hilton still unfit ... Amorality would undermine public confidence ... Sophie Taylor with the latest 

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Friday
Sep222017

Anonymous campaign against Barry Dangerous

• DateFriday, September 22, 2017

Restlessness among the senior prefects of the NSW Law Soc ... New junior vice sworn-in ... Councillors stirring against senior vice with strange memo in circulation 

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Friday
Sep222017

The perils of Pauline

• DateFriday, September 22, 2017

Conservative rump of members seeking to stamp out Law Society support for the YES vote ... SSM ... Never mind the facts, just feel the stale assertions ... Remembering Molly Bloom 

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Thursday
Sep212017

Doing the bidding of shock jocks and tabloid hacks

• DateThursday, September 21, 2017

In NSW, the regime is fond of introducing useless laws designed to placate outbursts of indignation from the tabloids ... The Disrespectful Behaviour Act is the latest of this genre ... Try to be nice to judges 

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Monday
Sep182017

Germy allegations hosed down

• DateMonday, September 18, 2017

QCA sends solicitor to re-education camp after overturning earlier strike-off order ... Strange claim of employer's vicarious liability for defamation ... Sophie Taylor reports 

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Monday
Sep182017

ACT solicitor stubbed out

• DateMonday, September 18, 2017

Telling pork pies to clients, the court, the Law Society and others ... It all came to a head when the solicitor was convicted of diddling a client's mother and the Legal Aid Commission ... Sophie Taylor on the case 

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