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Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >> 

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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Where are the glossy magazine spreads traversing what Reynolds and Brown went through? Where is the march for justice in support of these two brave women? Where is the apology from Gallagher and Wong? Where is the inquiry into the $2.4m of taxpayer money we now know was paid by the Department of Finance on the basis of false statements?"

Linda Reynolds is the victim here, not Brittany Higgins who was raped on Reynold's ministerial couch ... From Janet Albrechtsen, leader of the Reynolds' cheer squad ... The Australian, August 29, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >> 

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The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Thursday
Nov162023

Letter from Washington

Trump ramping up his next term ... Wrecking crew of lawyers on his team ... Authoritarian agenda ... New season for the Supreme Court ... Gun rights for perpetrators of domestic violence ... Texas prohibits wealth taxes - forever ... Entrenched voting distortions ... The new Speaker - a Christian Taliban ... Roger Fitch files 

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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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