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Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >> 

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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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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 ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

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 ... 


 

 

Tuesday
Jul092019

Blessings from the Murray

Religious freedom to discriminate on disability grounds ... Anglicans in court ... Illness has no place in God's design, especially when money is involved ... Diocese of the Murray ... Allegations of bullying ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from the City of Churches 

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Monday
Jul082019

Reds in the bed

Unreal events rendered lifeless in Red Joan ... The chutney-making housewife who passed on atomic research secrets to the Soviet Union ... A nice job at the Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association ... The true story of the spy Melita Norwood is yet to come ... Miss Lumière is deeply unmoved with this version 

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Sunday
Jul072019

Panda claws solicitor 

Panda politics at USyd's Student Representative Council ... Student politicians terminate the SRC's long-standing lawyer ... More lawyers enter the melee at 10 paces ... Allegations back and forth on Facebook ... Lawyer refuses to act for SRC president in defamation case ... Barely Legal sums up the issues 

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Wednesday
Jul032019

SCOTUS rescues the gerrymander

US Supreme Court washes its hands of election rigging ... Redistricting ... Trump lawlessness ... The president losing droves of court cases ... Financial irregularities ... Cosmetic inquiries guarantee that no one is responsible for war crimes ... Persecution of migrant children ... Roger Fitch reporting from Washington 

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Sunday
Jun092019

Acid-green is the new black

Style notes ... Lord Eldon adorned in shimmering robes ... Special occasion ... Loopholes in the dress code ... Historical research ... Splendid raiment comes out of the closet ... Queen Anne and Charles 11 mourned for too long ... Lady Eldon's elevation ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Jun072019

The business of Chapter 15 

Writing reports for the family courts ... Private consultants and their advice in custody disputes ... Parenting plans and abused children ... Contentious recommendations which sway courts with limited resources ... Lack of alternative "independent" advice ... Harrowing submission to parliamentary inquiry alleging misplaced professional advice about child abuse ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Jun052019

Ming the Merciless

Menzies: The Art of Politics ... Placing material success at the centre of things ... Vision of a bigger future goes missing ... Egon Kisch, H.V. Evatt, Petrov ... Politics of Australia and the sad state of now ... Procrustes ferments 

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Monday
Jun032019

The "sleek kangaroo" of Bangalow

He thought it was romance ... She believed it was sexual harassment ... Sal Vasta gets to work on law firm principal's over-wrought advances ... $170,000 awarded to female solicitor trapped at Bangelow law shop with predatory pest ... The perils of trying to stop smoking ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
May312019

Judgment of the week

Piper Alderman's kitchen sink drama ... Who's bullying whom? ... Injunction preventing meeting to sack property partner discharged ... Human rights complaint against law shop still on foot ... The workplace and women lawyers ... Allegations at 10 paces ... Insulting emails ... The works 

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