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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 >> 

 

 

 

Thursday
Sep072017

Viceworld

• DateThursday, September 7, 2017

Law Society of NSW ... Junior VP voted off the executive ... Desperate fight from marginal Catholic and evangelical lawyers to preserve marriage inequality ... Where to now with threats of an EGM and "legal action" against the law society? ... Civil and political rights in contention 

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Wednesday
Sep062017

Up for grabs

• DateWednesday, September 6, 2017

Crown appeals acquittal in sexual assault case ... Intoxication ... Consent ... NSW Court of Criminal Appeal ... Sophie Taylor courtside 

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Monday
Sep042017

High Court walks down the aisle on postal appropriation

• DateMonday, September 4, 2017

The High Court hearings on the same-sex marriage postal survey ... The subjective state of Mathias Cormann's mind comes under the microscope ... Whether the advance to the finance minister was "urgent" and "unforeseen" ... School Chaplains' case ... Plaintiffs' and Commonwealth's arguments ... Curtain raiser from Scott Young 

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Friday
Sep012017

Ms Wright versus The Zealots

• DateFriday, September 1, 2017

The councils of the Law Society and the NSW Bar are caught up in a backlash from a vocal fringe that wants them to abandon their support for same-sex marriage ... The usual suspects ... Where do these self-appointed guardians of virtue get off? 

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Thursday
Aug312017

Peter Dutton's autocracy

• DateThursday, August 31, 2017

The new minister for Home Affairs will have wide discretionary powers over peoples' lives ... Unfortunately, the job is being handed to a seriously unsuitable person ... Peta Leigh examines Peter Dutton's sweeping functions under the proposed ministerial arrangements 

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Tuesday
Aug292017

One crusty judge

• DateTuesday, August 29, 2017

Trump's lootin' and pollutin' ... CIA torture - settlement prospects open up ... Farcical military commissions ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Monday
Aug282017

Showshoeing

• DateMonday, August 28, 2017

Clerkship applications ... Finding something to talk about in the interview ... Slots on the partners' cards ... Cocktail evenings in high-heels ... Barely Legal busily reformatting paragraph indentations 

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Monday
Aug282017

Pressing issues

• DateMonday, August 28, 2017

Special chair for light duties in chambers ... Lawyer ordered to pay indemnity costs in sewerage bill standoff ... Austlii's redesign ... The senate considers whether courts have the wrong idea about contempt ... When legislation is received from Mother England what meaning can parliament intend? ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Monday
Aug282017

No fixed address

• DateMonday, August 28, 2017

Women on the streets ... Crime and  homelessness ... Melbourne City Council's plans to roundup rough sleepers to improve "pedestrian flow" ... Slavery, human trafficking and people smuggling ... Peach Melba on political compassion 

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