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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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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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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Thursday
Mar042021

Porter in a storm

DateThursday, March 4, 2021

"It just didn't happen" ... But will it go away? ... Pushing through ... Holes in the case ... First law officer with an unresolved allegation of rape ... Career on hold, but ultimately kaput ... Polly Peck on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar022021

Alleged rapist on the cusp of a statement

• DateTuesday, March 2, 2021

Prêt à porter ... Horse in fetid stable ... Rule of Law ... Rule of the Jungle ... Political imperatives ... Statement expected in bold volte face ... Polly Peck reports

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Thursday
Feb252021

Beak bleat

• DateThursday, February 25, 2021

Madges under pressure ... NSW's chief beak Graeme Henson unhappy with slow government response to Local Court crisis ... Pleading for more resources on multiple occasions ... New appointments filling retirements ... 10 more Madges needed ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Feb232021

Appeal judges twiddle the knobs

• DateTuesday, February 23, 2021

Walter Mitty con artist gets lower sentence from the NSW CCA ... Ponzi schemer fleeced friends, lovers and whoever else he could get his hands on ... Deficient personality ... Original sentence excessive and the result of an unbalanced process ... Too much judicial emotion ... Pep-talk to the media on reporting sentences ... Victims still largely penniless ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Feb192021

Empty gaffs on Martin Place

• DateFriday, February 19, 2021

Covid puts a false gloss on chamber's accounts ... Directors in and out ... Explanatory memo to members ... Creative fiction and negative expenses ... Big pile of unpaid floor fees ... Refreshments cut 

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Thursday
Feb182021

Counsel's advice on spinach puffs

• DateThursday, February 18, 2021

Enduring a miserable scholarship ceremony ... How the victim of a Westpac bank robbery restored Barely Legal's faith in the pinstripe prison ... The informative Uber driver ... Two canapés too many 

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Wednesday
Feb172021

The three percent

, • DateWednesday, February 17, 2021

Easy leader ... Melbourne silk's dominant brain ... Thought processes divided into four categories ... Porter's ball management ... AG's top agenda items for 2021 ... The vision splendid ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Feb162021

High Ground

, • DateTuesday, February 16, 2021

If you occupy the high ground, you control everything ... A white man's war-time notion ... Colonial invasion in all its savagery ... The King's law confronts justice for the dispossessed ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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Thursday
Feb112021

Lunar New Year

• DateThursday, February 11, 2021

Grand Poobah judicial snog ... Thirst-quenching at fault ... Late night knee balancing routine ... News from The Map ... Photo in circulation ... From our Tasmanian affairs correspondent 

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