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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
Nov242022

AAT: appointments pending

AAT ... Three months appointments for expiring members ... AG to assess the list of those who have their hand up for another spin of the wheel ... Some strange omissions ... No explanations ... Basil Gray reports 

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Wednesday
Nov232022

The Planet shivers

Tom Toms following journalist's speech ... Galah dinner ... Conniptions from ACT lawyers ... Tears and dismay ... Lawyers must not be critiqued ... Speakers required to bolster and flatter ... Amendments affecting Lehrmann retrial ... Theodora surveys the carnage 

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Monday
Nov212022

Boyfriend trouble

Shine lawyer sent to re-education camp ... Playing the G string ... Romantic representation ... Shame and embarrassment ... Substantial Failure v Consistent Failure ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

RBG: Of Many, One

Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Heather Mitchell as "Notorious RBG" ... Review by Braham Dabscheck 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

Western Mail

Judgment delivered in another Lloyd Rayney defamation case ... Two years gestation ... Recusal application denied ... Appeal pending ... Another Perth supermodel not getting up for under $10,000 a day ... Appeal judges ask for more details of work done ... Groper reports  

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Monday
Nov142022

Election deniers get elected

Roger Fitch in Washington takes a close look at the mid-term results ... Abortion probably played a bigger role than the Big Lie ... Pre-election meddling by the Supreme Court ... Not all the crazies lost ... The Republican House has inquisitions planned ... Voting rights and abortion protected in some state ballots 

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Friday
Nov112022

The Restoration

RIP Bob Ellicott ... Former solicitor general, MP, attorney general and judge ... Contention dogged his political career ... "Bullshit" advice about the governor general's power to remove a government ... In the thick of November 11, 1975 

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Wednesday
Nov092022

Lunar event

An exam paper with built-in "reputational damage" ... University grovels to upset law student ... Same scenario used in earlier exams ... Extension of time granted for stress ... Max Shanahan reports on an awful calamity 

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Sunday
Nov062022

Scandalum magnatum

Murdoch v Crikey ... Round one ... Public interest defence holds up ... Application to strike out the pleadings rejected ... Case management ... Public interest defence has legs and arms ... Why do titans need to crush their critics? ... Another blockbuster  

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