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Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>

 

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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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      Geoffrey Watson SC on NACC and Brereton's failure to do anything meaningful ... Time wasters
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      Murphy's Law ... Federal Court judge says sorry for judgment delay approaching three years ... Brambles class action
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      UK High Court allows export of fighter jet components to Israel ... Judicial review refused in proceedings requiring no fewer than 20 barristers
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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Lib-Nat government of Queensland appoints two new senior judges ... Court of Appeal and Northern Supreme Court ... Doyle KC and Johnstone KC ... Both from the same chambers ... Diversity at work ... More >>

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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 >> 

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Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... 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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Nov302021

Temby's Tales

• DateTuesday, November 30, 2021

The arc of life ... A memoir from the former inaugural Commonwealth DPP ... The foundation ICAC commissioner ... Momentous decisions ... Searing fallouts ... C.N. Brown reviews With Conviction 

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Monday
Nov292021

Gorgeous George comes to town

• DateMonday, November 29, 2021

Letter from the Dreaming Spires ... High Commissioner to the UK speaks at the Union ... A sprinkling of rapt Young Tories ... Car alarm competing for attention ... Jolly John Kerr told him Betty Windsor was in the clear ... Later rooftop revelries ... Barely Legal reports 

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Sunday
Nov282021

Collateral damage

• DateSunday, November 28, 2021

Practising ticket suspended ... Manager appointed ... Anonymised solicitor unsuccessful in stay application ... Client told incorrect figure for accident payout ... A difference of $130,000 ... Allegedly false invoices for disbursement funding ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Nov262021

The Lady Vanishes

• DateFriday, November 26, 2021

Untitled ... Former executive director of the bar dies ... Babette Smith played a leading role in soothing heated temperaments ... Huge drama over nude painting removed from the bar common room ... Boarding school politics ... Furious letters ... Name calling ... Unsettling events ... TV documentary ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Nov192021

Police prosecutor in Shakespearean succession drama

• DateFriday, November 19, 2021

NSW Supreme Court says prosecutor engaged in "vile" behaviour ... Persecution of step-mother ... False accusation of murder ... Unreliable evidence ... Discreditable conduct by a lawyer ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

Winning ways

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Rockhampton solicitor goes down ... Drunken offering of a "lazy quid" to the constables ... Corruption ... Adornment to the legal caper ... Offer of cash not seen as a joke ... A real charmer ... Foul mouthed bikie lawyer sentenced to the clink ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

An excess of venality

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Guns everywhere for everyone - Supreme Court to decide ... Judiciary stuffed with Trumpists ... Bannon mired in Congressional contempt ... Insurrection of January 6 ... Ex-president consumed by litigation ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

, • DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders ... Freedom ... Sovereignty ... Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy ... Warfare among litigation crowdfunders ... Excitable foot soldiers ... Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

I once met ... Joh Bjelke-Petersen

• DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975 

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