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Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >> 

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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent." 

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 

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Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Monday
Oct312022

Recklessly different

• DateMonday, October 31, 2022

NSW Law Society swaps sides to support the solicitor it had wanted struck off ... NCAT out of line in trust account case ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Law Society's original complaint lacked clarity ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct252022

Furious activity

, • DateTuesday, October 25, 2022

Vic's bar in ructions over election ticket ... NSW bar loses another fine old hand ... Bookshelves Brandis - a threat to the rule of law ... Alarm on appeal filing fees ... KC ordered out of court ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Oct232022

Marijuana mañana

• DateSunday, October 23, 2022

The ins and outs of cannabis legalisation ... Proposals from Greens senator David Shoebridge ... Constitutional possibilities ... Forget the states ... Let the Commonwealth light-up ... External affairs ... Patents ... Referral powers ... Max Shanahan takes a puff 

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Friday
Oct212022

Vote early, vote often

• DateFriday, October 21, 2022

Law Society of NSW ... Election watch ... Vote for a revamped council ... Proxies and pressure ... Lack of transparency on expenditures ... Consultant babble ... Other reforms are more pressing ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Oct142022

The Large Firm Society

• DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Sweeping constitutional change for the Phillip Street lawyers' temple ... Handing control to the top dogs ... Resistance mounts ... AGM looms ... Patronage possibilities ... NZ Law Society loses a president ... Cultural review ... Theodora files 

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Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

, • DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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Wednesday
Oct052022

Exceptional circumstances

, • DateWednesday, October 5, 2022

Where's the sunshine? ... Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks ... Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings ... The hurdle is already unnecessarily high ... What reputational damage? ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct042022

Jayne gets High

• DateTuesday, October 4, 2022

Jayne Jagot ... A humble non-silk ... She reached for the stars ... A serious case of the smarts ... Identified by Mark Dreyfus at least seven years ago ... Significant judgments ... High Court test in Chelmsford looming ... Rarely without trousers ... Theodora reports 

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