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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 

 

 

 

Monday
May272024

Geason's ghost

• DateMonday, May 27, 2024

Report from Van Diemen's Land ... Full court reconstitutes itself to deliver judgment in the absence of rusticated judge ... Blow CJ's "request" lost in the mail ... Tasmanian forest management scheme ... Regulators employed by the loggers ... Dame Enid reports 

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Thursday
May162024

Fit, Proper & Bonkers

• DateThursday, May 16, 2024

Bipolar diagnosis ... Character passes muster ... Sexual harassment ... Professional misconduct ... Barrister's sexual harassment ... Offending the product of bipolar affliction ... Pills and potions ... Next round 

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Wednesday
May152024

Mysterious shield of the Crown

• DateWednesday, May 15, 2024

Sexual disability ... Strong men  ... Privatisation ... Housing crisis ... Immunity of the Crown ... Procrustes and the kitchen sink 

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Friday
May102024

Strikings off

• DateFriday, May 10, 2024

Fit and proper ... Latest rulings from WA and NSW ... Solicitors attraction to other people's money ... Abject departure from the gold standard ... Anthony Kanaan looks at how unfit and improper you have to be in order to get de-rolled  

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Tuesday
May072024

Dark and Stormy times in the US of A

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Tuesday
May072024

Did Justice Lee get it wrong?

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

More on the omnishambles ... Holes in Justice Lee's Lehrmann findings on truth ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points 

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Thursday
May022024

Around town

, • DateThursday, May 2, 2024

Punctuation advice from Vic's bar ... Feds throw the book at library marriage ... Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation ... Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime ... Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil ... Hands up for silk in Aotearoa ... Theodora's latest rounds 

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Tuesday
Apr302024

Other Voices, Other Rooms

• DateTuesday, April 30, 2024

Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board 

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Friday
Apr262024

Great contributions to litigation

• DateFriday, April 26, 2024

Tribute to the hopeless litigant ... Vito, vitare, vitavi, vitatus ... Vexatious fighter moves to another jurisdiction ... Trail of exasperation and failure ... End of a headache ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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