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Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>

 

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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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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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Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... 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 >> 

"What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI."

Charlie Kirk, American conservative and conspiracy theorist on the Texas floods ... The Charlie Kirk Show, July 9, 2025  Read more flatulence ... 


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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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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Jan212020

Morrison, God and Climate

Government makes climate change noises, but no pressing need for a more urgent policy setting ... Fools paradise persists ... God will show the way as science takes the backseat ... Miracles galore ... Inspiration from Trump ... The editor comments  

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Tuesday
Jan212020

The torpor twins

ACT Supreme Court's slow-coach judges ... Even in retirement the suffering continues ... Gone but not forgotten ... Delays wreaking havoc on litigants ... From Artemus Jones 

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Monday
Jan202020

Frost bite

Liberal Party's misleading tricks in Kooyong and Chisholm ... Corflutes to heaven ... Full Feds finds the dodgy signage didn't swing enough votes to make a difference ... Fresh meaning for the phrase "likely to mislead" ... Judges tread wearily on political rorts ... Christmas Eve judgment that deserves attention ... Alan Zheng to the rescue 

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Friday
Jan172020

Courting climate intervention

Can and should the courts intervene on climate policy? ... Gloucester Resources and the "first wave" of climate litigation ... Judicial delicacy about putting a toe on the legislative patch ... European Human Rights Convention applied in upholding government's duty for a stronger mitigation effort ... Intergenerational equity ... Nathan Twibill reports 

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Tuesday
Jan142020

Impeachment and other crimes

What about all the other impeachable offences? ... No immunity for impeachment crimes ... Trump remains unchastened ... Fair elections cauterised by the Supreme Court ... War criminals to the rescue ... Judgeships for ideologues and party hacks ... From Roger Fitch in Washington

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Friday
Jan102020

Myrmidons and dancing bears

What is it about the Murdoch media and climate? ... Riding the tiger of denialism ... Margaret Thatcher, with her Oxford science degree, saw the problem ... Ruination of our rivers, air, crops, stock and reef ... The political power of coal and zero tax ... Doc Evatt showed how political courage worked ... Procrustes explains 

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Friday
Dec202019

A shaggy dog story

A Christmas helping of apprehended bias from Judge Sal Vasta ... More shouting, rudeness, anger, and overbearing conduct ... Expense and delay as the case has to start again ... Transcript ... Judicial embarrassment ... Sal's sorry history 

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Friday
Dec202019

Decency in the counterfactual

Life's tough at HWL Ebsworth ... Salary partner booted by Juan when billings dropped ... No need to have a meeting of equity partners ... Benefit of incumbency vanishes ... Court of Appeal chops the damages by 72% ... Happy Christmas ... Nathan Twibill reports on round two of the Martinez and Griffiths stoush 

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Thursday
Dec192019

Verdict from the prosecutor

Former judge Greg Woods reviews Frank & Fearless a memoir by former NSW DPP Nicholas Cowdery ... Policy intervention on drugs and mandatory sentencing ... Prosecutor in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Lionel Murphy cases ... Symmetry with Murphy's progressive views ... Salvos from the mothball fleet ... The Gordon Wood case ... Law reform 

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