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Monday
Jun062016

Ian Hancock

• DateMonday, June 6, 2016

Ian Hancock is the biographer of Tom Hughes QC, a hero of the Sydney bar ... He has submitted to Justinian's probing, intimate questions on the eve of the book's publication ... Biographing a biographer  

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Friday
Jun032016

Treats from the Top End

• DateFriday, June 3, 2016

Wyvill gets a breather from NT appeal court ... Grant Samuel rejigs Slater & Gordon ... Barrister suggests that if his client had more money someone else would have been briefed ... Bluto Watch 

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Thursday
Jun022016

Wagnerian opera goes centre stage in Brisneyland

• DateThursday, June 2, 2016

Big defamation action grips Banana-Benders ... Concrete Kings v Mouth from the South ... Big Al Jones doubles down ... Taxpayers pick up the tab for Can Do's and Jiving Jarrod's apology-free zone 

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Saturday
May282016

All stand

• DateSaturday, May 28, 2016

Special law to enforce respect for judges ... Legislative loopiness ... Closing the gap between contempt and disrespect 

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Thursday
May262016

Stick it up your briefs

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Queensland bar council says national equitable briefing policy is potentially "divisive" ... BAQ won't play along with Law Council's plans to improve the lot of women barristers ... Qld. is different, says bar prez, Christopher Hughes ... Lofty correspondence 

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Thursday
May262016

Wiggy conniptions

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Dewigging transcript ... An uplifting piece of transcript from May 24 is doing the rounds of Vic's Bar n' Grill ... Justice Kevin Bell gets serious about wigs' policy ... Turning up wearing a wig is an insult to Earl Warren CJ ... Briefs grovel and remove their hairpieces ... Wig protocol a matter of law ... Judge expresses his profound disappointment 

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Friday
May202016

Yarraside's fragrant delights

• DateFriday, May 20, 2016

Marketing breakthrough as barrister appears on the side of trams ... Reptiles of the media warned not to connect coke sniffing associate with Federal Court judges ... Hands up for deputy NSW DPP ... Gilbert + Tobin spruces its image but keeps the plus ... Industrial action - how the Poms campaigned effectively against Cameron government's legal aid cuts 

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Friday
May202016

Fairfax courtroom dramas - a loss, a win

• DateFriday, May 20, 2016

Defamation and sources ... Nick Di Girolamo, Sydney lawyer, Liberal party operator and Obeid frontman withdraws from defamation trial against The Sydney Morning Herald ... Court of Appeal orders up journalists' sources in blow against investigative journalism 

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Thursday
May192016

High Court muddles the advocates' immunity

• DateThursday, May 19, 2016

Advocates' immunity survives on High Court's flawed reasoning ... "Finality" not a compelling proposition - particularly when the court allows negligence claims against lawyers in some litigation-related circumstances ... Artemus Jones despairs 

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