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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent." 

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 

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Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Friday
May132016

Barrister up for $150,000 in defamation damages

• DateFriday, May 13, 2016

Queensland barrister makes grave and baseless allegations online about police officer ... Defendant's conduct improper and unjustified ... Copper cleared by coroner ... Triviality defence goes down in flames ... Seb Tonkin reports 

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Wednesday
May112016

Bar grovels to shocking shock jock

• DateWednesday, May 11, 2016

"Good morning" ... Noel Hutley apologies to radio bully ... Bar cover-up on leaks concerning private discussions about members ... UPDATE: DPP's woeful performance in the Lynette Daley case ... Brandis aims High 

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Tuesday
May102016

The electorate needs to concentrate on the camps

• DateTuesday, May 10, 2016

Just as Labor candidates are breaking ranks on asylum policy Burnside launches a new book on offshore detention ... Former appeals judge Stephen Charles says Manus and Nauru are "concentration camps" ... Madeline Gleeson examines what happens to refugees when they are out of sight, out of mind 

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Monday
May092016

"If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal"

• DateMonday, May 9, 2016

Fourteen years after filing a habeas petition, Guantánamo prisoner is released ... US claims right to indefinite detention , at will ... When did the US war with al-Qaeda commence? ... Kansas Republicans want to impeach the state's judges, for disobedience ... Voter suppression ... Republican convention and "open carry" ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Sunday
May082016

King hit

• DateSunday, May 8, 2016

Court orders scandalous allegations against lawyers to be removed from the court file and sealed ... Application to restrain plaintiff's travel overseas made in the mistaken belief that he was about the leave the country ... No basis in claim that lawyers acted unprofessionally ... Seb Tonkin reports 

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Friday
May062016

Cross-examination interruptus

• DateFriday, May 6, 2016

Justice Michael Adams birched by NSW Court of Appeal for excessive interference during a trial ... Trial was procedurally unfair ... Start again ... No finding of apprehended bias ... Seb Tonkin reports  

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Thursday
May052016

Bob the Builder goes to court

• DateThursday, May 5, 2016

Senator Bob Day asks Peter King to ask the High Court to overturn senate election reforms ... Four pronged attack on Electoral Act amendment ... Hannah Ryan courtside 

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Sunday
May012016

Shakespeare on refugees

• DateSunday, May 1, 2016

Shakespeare had some fine things to offer politicians and judges on refugees and how to treat them ... Procrustes says it should be compulsory for ministers of the crown to read Measure For Measure ... More bribes on the way for PNG following the Supreme Court decision on the Manus Island detention centre 

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Friday
Apr292016

Chest-beating from Macquarie Street's new lawn-order man

, • DateFriday, April 29, 2016

Draconian legislation in NSW to combat "serious" crime ... British equivalent extends its reach to trivial offences ... NSW's law and justice policies being run by the police ... Liberal MP, Henskens SC, defends police state measures and criticises the bar for speaking out ... Ill-informed political attack 

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