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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 ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >> 

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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Monday
May172021

Noteworthy decision

Billing ... Ebsworth refused to hand over file notes to client ... Client's bills paid by bank ... Property of the file notes ... For whose benefit were the file notes created? ... No charge code in billing system for file notes ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
May172021

Accessory to the swordsman

Prosecutor on the ropes ... Court finds murder prosecution was unreasonable ... Unstable witness the basis of "case theory" ... Witness alleges mistreatment by DPP ... Evidence withheld ... Offender recovers legal fees ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
May142021

RBG reincarnated

Insights into the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Towards a More Perfect Union ... The great sex discrimination abolitionist ... A supreme intellect at work ... Braham Dabscheck reviews a collection of RGB's speeches and key cases ... Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue 

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Friday
May072021

The Porter Principle

I'll show you mine but no-one should see yours ... Porter struggling with too much baggage ... Untoward allegations about Riverview branch of the bench ... Court anonymises another lawyer in strife ... Double billing at the Law Society ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
May062021

Ridd's reef

The Peter Ridd case hits the High Court ... James Cook University's termination of an academic's employment ... The freedom to say whatever you like ... Free speech and all that ... Being beastly about other academics ... Promoting views contrary to mainstream science ... Hero of the climate deniers ... Untangling the Code of Conduct and the Enterprise Agreement ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Tuesday
May042021

Leverhulme's Letter from Blighty

Innocent until proven guilty, unless it's Boris Johnson ... No. 10 home decorations scandal ... Poor PM has to pay the light bill ... Complex politically correct card game ... Lockdown officially ends next month ... Snippets from High Court judge Sir Harry Ognall (RIP) 

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Friday
Apr302021

Suppressed tendencies

Depression and suppression ... Bring on the psychiatrists ... Special pleading for special people ... Identities scrubbed from the record ... Open justice takes the hindmost ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Apr302021

News that won't fit

No comment on whether NSW lawyers are police sources ... Schmo's mate the Police Commissioner has solved the Porter case, once and for all ... Attorney General adopts multiple positions on the Walama Court ... Rule of Law Institute planning to expose schoolies to fresh ideas about the courts ... Slump on coronial activities ... Theodora lays on her hands 

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Friday
Apr302021

The United States vs Billie Holiday

The FBI's obsession with Strange Fruit ... Music from the devil ... War Against Drugs ... Reluctance to give up lynching ... Un-American activities ... All that jazz ... Hoover on the case ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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