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Reynolds can't get over it ... Former senator drops off news to her favourite hacks at The Australian ... Linda Reynolds is suing the Commonwealth and lawyers HWL Ebsworth over the Brittany Higgins settlement ... Claim that $2.4 million payment to former staffer affirmed Higgins' allegation ... Read more >> 

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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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The Lubyanka ... Bullying investigation into former Federal Court judge goes nowhere ... "Complaint unsubstantiated" ... Phew! ... Recommendations about staff education ... Nothing recommended for judicial induction ... More >> 

 

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Governance turmoil at Tiny Town Law Society ... Night of the long knives ... Lakeside in Canberra ... ACT Law Society upheaval over governance changes ... Bodies carted out of the council room ... Blood on the carpet ... Fraught litigation another distraction ... From Gang Gang ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Monday
Nov212016

Long shadow of lawyer's corrupt conduct

Massive amounts of character evidence failed to help Howard Hilton regain admission ... Previous corrupt conduct would blight the legal profession's glow of honesty ... Readmission refused 30 years after being struck-off ... Insufficient evidence as to a change in character ... Andrew Bell reports 

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Monday
Nov212016

Almost fit and proper

ACT admission ... Legal practitioner with list of offences and mental issues ... Ongoing medical assessment ... Artemus Jones says ACT Court of Appeal judgment is wrong in law ... Supervision regime unworkable ... Suppression of practitioner's name keeps it in-house ... Molonglo mayhem 

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Friday
Nov182016

Enemies of the People

People ride to the rescue of the judges ... Global company cancels advertising with The Daily Mail after its attacks on the judiciary ... Politicians too scared of the media to wade into furore on behalf of the judiciary ... Corporates urged not to do business with "hate media"  

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Tuesday
Nov152016

Enterprising synchronicity at the Federal Court

Federal Court's glorified personnel manager gets inspiration from Qantas CEO Alan Joyce ... Or maybe Alan Joyce anticipated almost the same words to be used in a memo to court staff ... Copyright issue looms 

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Tuesday
Nov152016

The all new ICAC, with less singing and dancing

Megan Latham faces the sack ... Government and Labor in NSW agree on a new ICAC with three commissioners ... Public hearings at risk ... Vetting of appointments by Coalition ... Farewell Inspector Dave ... Bringing corruption investigations under political control 

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Sunday
Nov132016

It's gruesome at the bottom

The hunt for briefs ... Networking events for hungry barristers ... Telling lies to solicitors ... Junior Junior fills up on cheese balls 

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Sunday
Nov132016

Mentor me

Finishing law school is an absolute fright ... The outside world is formidable ... What is needed is a mentor ... Barely Legal has a four-point plan for good mentoring 

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Saturday
Nov122016

Trump's election drew on dirty tricks playbook

Poor Hillary ... Not helped by Bill's neoliberal trade policies ... Voting manipulation courtesy of US Supremes ... Meddling from Republicans at the top of the FBI ... Email beat-up by House committees ... Supreme Court lost for a generation ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, says Trump's election is a black day for the rule of law 

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Wednesday
Nov092016

Solicitor General - position vacant

George Brandis' house of horrors ... Loopholes on display at Supreme Court ... Roddy Meagher's old floral shirt for sale ... Wither Vixit ... Fusion of privacy and information functions ... Bursting into song at the Federal Court 

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