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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Attorney General Michelle Rowland's reply when asked whether she had confidence in Paul Brereton, commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission ... In 2024 Brereton was found to have engaged in misconduct following a conflicted decision to reject further robo-debt investigations ... Australian Financial Review, July 24, 2025  Read more flatulence ... 

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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Monday
Apr032017

Scoping the advocates' immunity

• DateMonday, April 3, 2017

Immunity from suit ... High Court has another stab at it ... Oxford's Professor of Obligations in the driving seat ... More loose threads appear ... No finality in sight for the quelling of immunity cases 

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Saturday
Apr012017

Russian takeover

• DateSaturday, April 1, 2017

Judicial movements ... Sofronoff appointment seen as a strong move ... Will Timbo send flowers? ... Earl Warren calls it a day ... Contenders polishing their whiskers 

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Friday
Mar312017

Brooding spirits of the law

• DateFriday, March 31, 2017

Great Australian Dissents ... Sir Tony Mason launches learned tome ... Noble and notable dissenting judgments ... Judges who had an eye on the future ... Disagreements on High 

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Thursday
Mar302017

Trump's disorders

• DateThursday, March 30, 2017
 

Roger Fitch in Washington on Trump's plans to destroy America's public services ... Out the window goes consumer protection, funding for the arts and legal aid ... After James Comey nobbled Hillary Clinton, the FBI is now probing Russia's influence on the election ... Civil damages suit against CIA torture contractors 

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Sunday
Mar262017

Time after time

• DateSunday, March 26, 2017

Personal injury law shop Brydens having trouble producing an itemised bill of costs ... A continuing difficulty ... Lost file ... Strange interpretation of the Legal Profession Act ... Daniel Ahern reports 

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Sunday
Mar262017

Costs feud sends solicitor to the infirmary

• DateSunday, March 26, 2017

Solicitor overcharged whistleblowing client ... Cost assessment ... Client charged $1.7 million ... Breach of duty ... Breach of trust account regulations ... Nearly eight years on ... It's not over yet ... Daniel Ahern is on the case 

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Saturday
Mar252017

Inflammatory letter lands solicitor a reprimand

• DateSaturday, March 25, 2017

Family law ... Letter writing skills ... Unreferenced borrowings in overwrought missive to client's husband ... Writing under instructions ... Sohini Mehta reports 

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Thursday
Mar232017

Sentencing trends

• DateThursday, March 23, 2017

The good old days of sentencing ... A decent lunch for the judge and then into court to slot some poor wretch, accompanied by plenty of self-righteous moralising ... View of the world from the leafy suburbs ... Lack of rigour ... Judicial history ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Mar172017

Not too flash

• DateFriday, March 17, 2017

Filibuster on Bell questions at senate estimates ... Judicial developments at The Map ... Tidball - there's a song in his heart ... Worthwhile cause of the week 

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