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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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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 >> 

"This is not a workplace event ... It's not workplace sexual harassment ..." 

Martin Bennett, lawyer for Senator Linda Reynolds, seeking to put distance between his client and Brittany Higgins' office rape ... Reynolds v Higgins, September 3, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Winners and grinners ... Smiling policy for lawyers ... Better coordination required ... When smiling runs amok ... Happy lawyers and glum clients ... Delighted clients and anxious lawyers ... Moments of intense seriousness ... Delirious money shots ... From Justinian's Photographic Editor ... 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 ... 

 

 

Thursday
Dec122019

Britannia votes

• DateThursday, December 12, 2019

Leverhulme wraps-up a nasty election campaign ... Too much spin while proper information got suppressed ... Voters divided in untraditional ways ... Tactical voting ... Farage slump ... Unreliable polls ... Media players seething ... The country is begging for a result  

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Wednesday
Dec112019

How to ask a question

• DateWednesday, December 11, 2019

Peter Lyons book Advocacy - A Practical Guide ... Reviewed by Paul Hardman ... Helping judges come to the right decision ... Loved by Lord Pannick ... Techniques from the leading lights ... Presentation skills ... Preparation ... From the author of the best-selling Not One Jot 

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Tuesday
Dec102019

Post-boom fallout

• DateTuesday, December 10, 2019

WA barrister cannot represent his brother and their company in a fee dispute ... Potential conflict of interest ... Solicitor chasing money from counsel ... Solicitor-barrister duo the team of choice for sub-contractors on many major projects in WA during the boom times ... Sadly, now in court wresting over money ... Jenek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Dec062019

Clive calling

, • DateFriday, December 6, 2019

Clive James bird's-eye view from London on Marcus (The Mensch) Einfeld ... The prisoner and the judge - repartee in the NSW Supremes ... New silk by the yard ...Master of the Rolls reflects on Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane ... Policing NSW-style - "pull over driver" ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Dec032019

Bulletin from the Bureau de Spank

• DateTuesday, December 3, 2019

Department of Wet Lettuce ... Barrister lightly birched for overcharging ... Unsettling fee collection methods ... Fee refund ... And that old hearing aid case resurfaces ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Dec022019

Try not to plead guilty

• DateMonday, December 2, 2019

The Map ... Glacial development of new justice measures for Van Diemen's Land ... The slow gestation of Magistrates Court reforms ... Defendants no longer required to stump-up fees to see the prosecution's evidence ... Ancient rites and rituals of Tasmanian police ... Reforms that should make proceedings less efficient ... Greg Barns comments 

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Thursday
Nov282019

The triumph of tribal epistemology

• DateThursday, November 28, 2019

Roger Fitch examines where Congress is heading with its impeachment investigation ... Factoids and the Republican defence ... Picking-up where Mueller left off ... The impeachable provision of bribery ... False equivalence narratives from the media ... New distractions from Bill Barr ... And Trump sanctions war crimes 

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Wednesday
Nov272019

Spilling the beans

, • DateWednesday, November 27, 2019

Official Secrets ... Whistleblowing at its finest ... The GCHQ operative who got a memo from the NSA into the hands of The Observer ... The right to know about the invasion of Iraq and its illegality ... Coalition of the Willing and the missing weapons of mass destruction ... Miss Lumière enjoys a high-minded leak in the public interest 

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Tuesday
Nov262019

Don't mention it

, • DateTuesday, November 26, 2019

Stop the presses - the WCC has made a decision ... QCs and the crown's work ... Taxi! ... Invalid disciplinary cases validated ... Public purpose fund raided ... Tasmanian judge tongue-lashes Sydney lawyer ... Theodora sniffs around the traps 

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