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Sunday
Mar242024

It's customary

• DateSunday, March 24, 2024

Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files 

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Friday
Mar222024

Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

• DateFriday, March 22, 2024

Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Friday
Mar152024

Slumbering snails

• DateFriday, March 15, 2024

Judges and their delays ... Agonising cogitations ... Trials derailed ... Start again ... Dreamers awake ... Award time for the coveted Golden Snail 

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Wednesday
Mar132024

Solicitor's swan song sounds in contempt

• DateWednesday, March 13, 2024

Trading without a ticket ... Manager appointed ... Obstruction and hinderance ... "Medical issues" ... Contempt ... One month's prison - suspended ... Not sorry ... Anthony-James Kanaan reporting 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

University turns tail on Drumgold

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

University of Canberra wilts in the heat ... Drumgold's academic appointment cancelled ... Unrelenting and biased media attacks ... Lily-livered university administrators ... From the newsletter 500 Words, or thereabouts 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

Yarraside - fresh agitation

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

Skirmish over how to spend $600,000 of barristers' money sitting in Victorian CJ's piggybank ... Tightwads are opposed to the Owen Dixon Memorial Childcare Centre ... Alarming problem if nippers are located where criminals are visiting their briefs ... Woke Wars ... Peach Melba reports 

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Monday
Mar112024

Sofronoff scuppered

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland 

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Monday
Mar112024

Dangerous concoctions

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

Fabricated cases cited to show instances where MinterEllison lawyers had been restrained from appearing ... AI possibly responsible ... Litigant fails in bid to block Minters and counsel from acting in long-running employment law battle ... Embellished misconduct claims ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Tuesday
Mar052024

Latest cancellations

• DateTuesday, March 5, 2024

Barrister skewered for taking a pro-Palestinian stand ... Referred to OLSC for "antisemitism" ... Lobby calls for deticketing ... The free speech brigade unhappy with free speech ... Sudden death syndrome ... Procrustes files 

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