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Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >> 

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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Where are the glossy magazine spreads traversing what Reynolds and Brown went through? Where is the march for justice in support of these two brave women? Where is the apology from Gallagher and Wong? Where is the inquiry into the $2.4m of taxpayer money we now know was paid by the Department of Finance on the basis of false statements?"

Linda Reynolds is the victim here, not Brittany Higgins who was raped on Reynold's ministerial couch ... From Janet Albrechtsen, leader of the Reynolds' cheer squad ... The Australian, August 29, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >> 

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The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Friday
Aug052016

High Court's 12 point plan

Fonting and spacing special leave submissions ... Bar refers itself to the Bureau de Spank ... McClintock SC opposes Inspector Dave's scheme to defenestrate ICAC ... Barristers Chambers Limited - a great consumer experience ... Former Tas solicitor general Sealy knows a thing or two 

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Wednesday
Aug032016

Life with Hormones

Sentencing Harriet Wran ... Media discount ... Opportunities for the press to influence custodial outcomes ... Justice Ian Harrison's scrapes with the media ... Sentencing parity and the disadvantaged  

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Friday
Jul292016

Judicial productivity report

How supreme are NSW Supreme Court judges? ... Justinian's judicial productivity calculations ... Volume of judgments per judge for the last 31 months ... Guess who's top of the tally, and who's bottom 

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Tuesday
Jul262016

How Rupert Murdoch went bad

According to Evan Whitton, Rupert Murdoch went bad 56 years ago, and stayed bad ... Always with an eye on the main chance for number one ... The Rupert Max Stuart affair ... The role of Sol Chandler ... Playing tootsies with Gorton and Whitlam ... Hacking and Milly Dowler ... Wilful blindness 

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Saturday
Jul232016

Raked off

Rake is only a fraction of the truth ... Other contenders for the Cleaver Greene role ... Redrawing the Sykes-Picot lines ... Renoir captures Western happiness at its best ... The High Court - shifty when it comes to protecting minorities ... Robert Jackson J and the purpose of a Bill of Rights ... Procrustes roams far and wide 

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Friday
Jul222016

Rolling out the big guns

University professors fight Texas gun laws in court ... The importance of this election to SCOTUS ... Remembering Zbigniew Brzezinski's advice for the US to act "unpredictably and in anger" ... The Republican FBI chief's Trumping of Hillary Clinton ... From Roger Fitch - Our Man in Washington 

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Wednesday
Jul202016

Kerr's tax dodge - thanks Allens

Allen Allen & Hemsley's Uncle Charlie tax scheme for Sir John Kerr ... Kerr's last drunken months as GG were spent planning an elaborate tax subterfuge ... Cloak and dagger for Mr Frederick King 

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Tuesday
Jul192016

Chartering rights the wrong way

Human Rights psychosis ... Timidity takes over ... Where to now for a human rights charter? ... Queensland politicians failure to seize the moment ... Victoria may be on the cusp of a new rights scheme  

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Sunday
Jul172016

Cascade Coal - vindication for ICAC

Important victory for Independent Commission Against Corruption in NSW Court of Appeal - conveniently ignored by anti-ICAC campaigners ... Corruption findings against Sydney business identities stay the course ... Important underpinnings for ICAC ... Fraud ... Directors' duties ... Hannah Ryan gets to grips with the judgment 

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