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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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      Federal government slices and dices the law firms on the drip for Commonwealth work
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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent." 

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 

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Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Thursday
Aug202020

Sister Susan Connelly

• DateThursday, August 20, 2020

The nun who is on the battlements for Bernard Collaery and Witness K ... Relentless organiser, protester, and campaigner ... East Timor's long struggle and the all too late engagement of Australia ... The "Act of No Choice" in West Papua ... Progressive politics and the Catholic Church ... Eggs, carrots and leftovers ... Devisor of cunning schemes ... Sister Susan Connelly is on Justinian's Couch 

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Tuesday
Aug182020

Acts of Attainder

• DateTuesday, August 18, 2020

No damage here, parliament says so ... Community Protection Acts ... Judicial gauze ... Straws in the wind ... Clive Palmer ... Aboriginal backpay ... Entitlement to MP's superannuation ... Parliaments' rule of law ... Procrustes on how politicians crush litigation opponents 

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Monday
Aug172020

Kerr's curs

, • DateMonday, August 17, 2020

Leading hacks at The Australian have waged war on Professor Jenny Hocking and her research into the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government by governor general Kerr ... The archived letters clearly confirm the Palace's involvement ... It is The Australian's version that is in need of repair ... Michael White dismantles the claims about Hocking's "conspiracy theory" 

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Monday
Aug102020

Correspondence from lofty sources

• DateMonday, August 10, 2020

Lord Eldon QC writes to the Governor General about Norman O'Bryan "AM" ... A reflection on Michael Wyles QC's letter to the Prime Minister ... How much worse things are a month after the letter landed in Schmo's in-tray ... Lygon Street's Lagoon Dining ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Aug102020

Clinging to the wreckage

• DateMonday, August 10, 2020

Trump's fresh rampage ... Taking the USA beyond proto-authoritarianism ... A chaotic post-election scenario ... Cheating might save the day ... Flouting the Supreme Court's rulings ... The odour of corruption ... Reichstag fires and the president's brown shirts ... Absentee voting and the postal system ... Our Man in Washington Roger Fitch reports  

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Friday
Aug072020

On The Beach

, • DateFriday, August 7, 2020

ASIC v Harold Mitchell ... Rollicking language from High Court prospect ... Something old at the new ACT drug court ... Roadkill at Tasmanian Legal Aid ... Women lawyers gazumped for High Court appeal ... Tears for Balmain woman ... Theodora is out and about with her notebook 

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Thursday
Aug062020

The Twelve

, • DateThursday, August 6, 2020

Belgium's criminal justice system up-close ... Role of judges, jurors, witnesses and counsel ... Jurors with discordant, flawed lives ... Final judgment ... Miss Lumière sees how continental law deals with murder most foul 

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Monday
Aug032020

Stormin' Norman raises the white flag

• DateMonday, August 3, 2020

UPDATE ...Shining light of the Yarraside bar 'n' grill has withdrawn his defence to overcharging allegations in the Banksia Securities class action ... Conceded judgment should be made against him and that it is appropriate he be struck from the jam roll ... Fee doctoring on an industrial scale ... Transcript ... Contradictor's compilation of misdeeds ... Ginger Snatch reports   

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Friday
Jul312020

Theodora's notebook

, • DateFriday, July 31, 2020

The Tamil's legal affairs section has closed-up shop, but he's still scribbling for The Australian as a contributor ... Lucky us ... Paid private tours of the courts and cosy chats with judges organised by Robin and his Merry Men ... Rule of law gets a libertarian makeover ... Theodora reports 

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