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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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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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Monday
Nov072016

Greenway: forging ahead

Sydney's newest chambers with bold ambitions ... Generous open spaces ... Seeking engagement with the wider world ... Feature laden fit-out ... Francis Greenway - an inspiration and a cautionary example 

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