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Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ... 

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    • Supreme Court of Western Australia
      Nine new senior counsel appointed in WA
    • The Guardian
      Rebecca Solnit ... The US election outcome ... "Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do"
    • Robert Beech-Jones
      High Court judge on lawyers who stood in the path of tyrants ... A grim speech for grim times
    • Judicial Commission of NSW
      Complaint by NSW DPP about the conduct of Judge Peter Whitford DCJ ... Findings by the NSW Judicial Commission in full ... Falling short of the standards required of a judicial officer
    • NACC Inspector's Report
      Report into failure of procedural fairness and natural justice by MACC commissioner Paul Brereton ... Apprehension. of partiality

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Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >> 

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The government wants to publish the secret chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission ... If someone who is yet to be appointed gives permission ... More >>

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London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Mistakes of law or fact are a professional inevitability for judges, tribunal members and administrative decision makers."  

Paul Brereton, Commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission, downplaying the Inspector's finding of bias and procedural unfairness with his conflicted involvement in the decision making about Robodebt referrals ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ... 

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A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Monday
Sep072015

American after-glow

• DateMonday, September 7, 2015

Connecticut's Supreme Court kills the death penalty ... Locating the new Guantánamo ... Extrajudicial abduction ... Psychologists withdraw from the chamber of horrors ... John Robert CJ's abiding fear of the right to vote ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Friday
Sep042015

Royal Commission pain

• DateFriday, September 4, 2015

The Heydon inquiry into trade unions is just one of a number of royal commissions to get into political trouble - including Petrov and the political bribery scandal in Tasmania ... Shortcomings with Dyse's Luddite defence ... Why backout from the Barwick lecture if there was no resulting reasonable apprehension of bias? 

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Tuesday
Sep012015

Heydon and his debacle 

• DateTuesday, September 1, 2015

Like Earl Warren, Dyson Heydon will come to regret accepting a government commission ... Sufficient evidence to support a legal finding of apprehended bias ... Sydney lawyer Graham Hryce teases out Heydon's curious reasoning 

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Monday
Aug312015

Fresh contenders for silk

• DateMonday, August 31, 2015

Here's the 2015 list of the NSW bar n' grill's applicants for senior counsel ... 113 seeking recognition ... Only a small contingent of women with their hands up ... Here we go, again 

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Sunday
Aug302015

Heydon's amazing last minute realisation

• DateSunday, August 30, 2015

Lingering doubts about the royal commissioner's state of mind ... Garfield Barwick lecture ... Commissioner refuses to release all documents ... We're now in cover-up mode 

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Friday
Aug282015

Vic Bar stitches-up the play for queen's counsel

• DateFriday, August 28, 2015

Same tired, old untested stuff in the Kellam report recommending retention of Victoria's QCs ... Claims of economic value, getting rid of "confusion" and preserving independence ... Evidence wanting ... Creating a choice that isn't a choice ... Miracle cure for deeper ills 

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Tuesday
Aug252015

Costly HIH fallout

• DateTuesday, August 25, 2015

Claim that Sydney solicitor overcharged former HIH executive $700,000 ... Byzantine submissions ... HH says time to stop the skirmishing and get on with the trial ... Kate Lilly reporting 

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Tuesday
Aug252015

Pollies huddle in Cunneen's corner

• DateTuesday, August 25, 2015

Leaks, Latham and Levine ... NSW parliamentary committee on ICAC gets to work ... Transcript released ... Putting "free kicks and butterflies" in context ... Questions that ICAC need not answer ... Frisson on display ... Alex Mitchell ringside 

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Wednesday
Aug192015

Master tacticians 

• DateWednesday, August 19, 2015

Leverhulme looks at the work of John Freeman of Face to Face fame and Jeremy Hutchinson QC, the top trial lawyer of his time  ... Cross examining Lord Birkett and other treats ... London Calling 

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