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Potty Mouth Solicitor Dispatched ... NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults ... Insufficiently professional ... Arrived from Greece with only his underpants ... No contrition ... Anthony Kanaan files ... Read more >>

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The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >> 

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Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... From Stephen Murray at the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... 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 >> 

"Stop accusing Israel deliberately of this egregious falsehood. There is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation."

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netahyahu hoping to give a new meaning to the word "starvation" ... July 28, 2025 ...  Read more flatulence ... 


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


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Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... Read more >> 


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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Thursday
Mar172022

The ethnography of law school electives

The subjects they choose ... Divining the character and culture of law students ... What becomes of them? ... Corporations and tax ... Labour law ... Sports law ... Antonin Scalia law ... Human rights .. Equity ... Philosophy ... The different choices are defining ... Barely Legal reports 

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Sunday
Mar132022

Матушка Россия 

The Russian judiciary ... How the Kremlin tamed the judges ... Rule of the state is the same as the rule of law ... Artful selection of the "right" people ... The Kremlin always wins ...  Londongrad and rivers of looted rubles 

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Thursday
Mar102022

Executive overboard

Another top flight management executive leaves the AAT ... Staff attrition ... Morale and harmony unravelled by political picks ... Review of selection process ... Accountability ... Polly Peck reports 

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Tuesday
Mar082022

Damp spirits

Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal 

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Thursday
Mar032022

Foreign affairs

News from far corners ... Western Australia and Tasmania ... SC agitation ... Finding the right appointment "process" ... Displaced Circus Court judge pops up in Hobart ... Outcry over fiddling with the law course at U Tas ... Theodora on the parapet 

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Thursday
Mar032022

Meretricious malarky

The war in Ukraine crashes head-on into NSW's ICAC ... The Tamil on fire ... Analogies stretched ... Weird newspaper column ... Important bits missing ... The Law of Rulers goes troppo 

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Tuesday
Mar012022

There's sunshine in Queensland

Helen Bowskill ... The new chief justice of Queensland ... Biographical details ... Empathy and smarts ... From legal secretary to lead singer with the Supremes ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports from Brisbane 

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Saturday
Feb262022

Clueless judges 

Sleaze on the bench ... Wandering hands ... Half-baked apologies from sexually harassing judges ... Professional boundaries violated ... Claim that investigations not legitimate ... Hiding behind legal mumbo jumbo ... The penny that never drops 

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Tuesday
Feb222022

On a search for whimsy

What do law students do during the summer break ... Start a newspaper ... A counterpoint to the law's dry stuff ... First edition of Amicus Courier online now ... From Djokovic to haiku ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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