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Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >> 

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An Australian Abroad ... An essay with pictures … Egypt and the Grand Museum … No end to the antiquities … Down the Nile on a dahabiya … Tombs and temples … Paris and industrial-scale tourism … The Yarts & Kulture ... Read on >> 

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Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Most important of all, in addition, we have the World Cup and we have the Olympics. Can you imagine [if] I missed that four years? And now look what I have. I have everything - amazing the way things work out. God did that, I believe that too." 

Donald Trump in a speech at Arlington National Cemetary, noting that he will be president for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ... May 26, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Zeilgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 


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The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Nov152023

What next for the stateless?

Indefinite immigration detention overturned ... Parts of the Migration Act out of bounds for politicians ... Procrustes examines the Saloon's big decision - citing Felix Frankfurter, Donald Rumsfeld, WB Yeats and the Curran tax scheme 

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Thursday
Nov092023

Porridge - but hold the natural justice

Procrustes takes apart his favourite judges and their judgments ... Prisoners and their procedural fairness ... The absolute discretion of the screws ... Revisiting Sir Percy Spender ... Coffee on hold 

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Wednesday
Nov082023

Star of the sea emits a twinkle

Stella Maris ... The Northern Territory Judicial Commission slowly swings into action ... Supreme Court judge to be investigated for "malice" ... Allegations of bullying and delayed judgments ... Mentors and councillors ahoy ... Creating an investigation unlikely to deliver a scalp ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Wednesday
Nov082023

Creative possibilities for the law of torts

Barbara McDonald - the high priestess of torts and privacy ... Former torts law professor at the University of Sydney ... What's on the horizon for the development of privacy and other torts ... The bureaucratisation of scholarship and academic life ... Life at the academy ... Interview with Ariana Haghighi 

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Monday
Nov062023

Blood and greed

Book review ... Killing for Country: A Family Story ... The colonial land grab ... Entitlement capitalism and the transformation of Australia in the 19th century ... The killing fields of the Native Police ... Failure of the law ... The foundations of a nation's character ... Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck   

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Thursday
Nov022023

Plenty on the plate

Lehrmann's TV strategy ... Publicity please, but not for Toowoomba ... London lawyers still coining the Bell fallout ... More cases of judicial foot-dragging ... Law Society CEO mystery ... Tickle up ... Candles on Frosty's cake ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Oct242023

Ringside reports

Farrell fallout ... Outstanding work ... Rares to the rescue ... Costs certificates for all ... Big NSW CA case on exorbitant costs and the court's jurisdiction to relieve lawyers of money that isn't theirs ... For whom the Bell tolls ... From Ginger Snatch, Associate of Judges  

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Sunday
Oct222023

Red bagging

Elephant stamps for best in class ... The silk snafu ... Multiple winners from the same chambers ... Secret process for silk selection ... Smoke and mirrors ... Inside track at the Bar 'n' Grill 

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Thursday
Oct192023

Letter from London

"Can I just mention?" ... Judges show their Arsenal tickets ... Netflix bends it with Beckham... Giant US-UK law shop fusion ... AG gets the branding wrong ... Jail house blues ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty 

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