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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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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 >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

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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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Jan222025

Another Bonaparte takes the throne 

• DateWednesday, January 22, 2025

The Second Coming of Trump ... A circus of corruption and revenge ... Rewards for the "losers" ... Assembling the infrastruction of authoritarianism ... DoJ cases up for "negotiation" ... The knavery of Louis Napoleon ... Parallels aplenty ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Sunday
Jan192025

Catching the backpay gravy train

• DateSunday, January 19, 2025

Flour and baccy ... What happened to WA's one percent? ... Settlement of stockmen's missing wages in Qld ... Stolen wages case in WA ... Litigation funding ... Lawyers' fees ... Peanuts for the deprived ...  Procrustes reports 

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Thursday
Dec192024

Scratching fleas

, • DateThursday, December 19, 2024

Multiple references from their Highnesses didn't cut the mustard for silk applicant ... Behind the scenes with the selectors ... AAT visa decision scuttled because delegate's reasons were scissor and pasted ...  Looking for a new ICAC CEO ... Basement rendezvous at the Lubyanka ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Dec192024

Costly cockatiels

• DateThursday, December 19, 2024

Perth's eponymous law shop's fat fees shaved ... Animal rights defamation case ... Nothing missing in tax returns from defendant's OnlyFans earnings ... Misuse of absolute privilege ... Sandy Groper reports 

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Friday
Dec132024

Scenes from The Map 

• DateFriday, December 13, 2024

UPDATE ... FRESH NEWS ... New Tasmanian CJ meets strong headwinds ... Gunson withdraws ... Selection protocol ignored ... Apple Isle outsider foisted on the court ... Judges furious ... Agenda at play ... Guv'nor to hand out royal baubles to silks ... Trevor Quoll reports 

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Wednesday
Dec112024

Spotlight on McClintock

• DateWednesday, December 11, 2024

Former defamation silk takes the podium ... Speech and fielding questions in clubland ... Jabs at enemies ... Why fewer punters are suing ... Cross-examining journalists ... Fun cases ... When not to sue ... From Ginger Snatch at lunch 

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Tuesday
Dec102024

The relevant minister

• DateTuesday, December 10, 2024

Attorney General wanted INSLM report to be "clarified" ... Sheeting the blame ... Alleged ambiguity as to which minister was responsible for hiding evidence ... Political sensitivities ... Change of personnel responsible for monitoring national security laws ... Polly Peck reports 

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Friday
Dec062024

Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0

• DateFriday, December 6, 2024

Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct 

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Friday
Nov292024

Bird on the wing

• DateFriday, November 29, 2024

Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP 

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