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Monday
May172021

Accessory to the swordsman

• DateMonday, May 17, 2021

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

• DateFriday, May 14, 2021

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

, • DateFriday, May 7, 2021

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

• DateThursday, May 6, 2021

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

• DateTuesday, May 4, 2021

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

• DateFriday, April 30, 2021

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

, , • DateFriday, April 30, 2021

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

, • DateFriday, April 30, 2021

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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Tuesday
Apr272021

Our man in Washington

• DateTuesday, April 27, 2021

Biden moves well to the left of Obama and the Clintons ... Attorney General Merrick Garland starts repair job at the Department of Justice ... Weeding out the Trump "burrowers" ... Implications for Guantánamo "war prisoners" in light of Afghanistan withdrawal ... Republicans push ahead with electoral rorts ... More Trump corruption emerging ... Roger Fitch's letter from America  

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