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Thursday
Aug152019

Vlad gets battle axed

• DateThursday, August 15, 2019

Atanaskovic and his law shop take on their old client Bruce Gordon ... Vlad collects most of his fees and in the process is impaled ... The flames of Brodie Clarke's villainy are still brightly burning ... Massive judgment prepared, only for the dispute to settle days before it is due to be delivered ... Money remained the live issue ... Atanaskovic charged the client for investigating his employee's fraud ... Unflattering findings ... Janek Drevikovsky reports  

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Wednesday
Aug142019

Raring to go to Norfolk

• DateWednesday, August 14, 2019

Justice Rares tells the Crown not to bother him with trifles concerning the cost of hearing a case on Norfolk island ... Treating the Federal Court as a "small agency" of the Commonwealth ... "Interests of justice" ... Rant from the bench ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Wednesday
Aug142019

Beautiful Palm Beach ... don't go there 

, • DateWednesday, August 14, 2019
Palm Beach, directed by Rachel Ward and starring the usual suspects ... Sponsored by the NSW government, so you know what to expect ... The stars phone it in ... Miss Lumière hacks the celluloid to pieces 

Thursday
Aug082019

News from the Street of Shame

• DateThursday, August 8, 2019

Money, money, money ... Fat fees per day for Sydney silkies ... Tom Bathurst's looming departure ... Ka-ching - the governor's property clean-up ... High Court suppression tussle ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Aug082019

Poor old Davo

• DateThursday, August 8, 2019

The Bill Davidson story ... Another chapter in the bankrupt barrister saga ... Application to rejoin the jam roll rejected ... Failure to come to grips with past "moral" lapses ... Inability to manage income and tax ... Janek Drevikovsky reporting 

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Tuesday
Aug062019

Salutations

• DateTuesday, August 6, 2019

The Sal Vasta file ... A rummage through recent history ... Bombast and bulling  ... Lashings of contempt ... Errors of law ... "Mentoring" underway ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

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Sunday
Aug042019

Fuel fights

• DateSunday, August 4, 2019

The real world at variance with the claustrophobia of defamation proceedings ... Relevant facts missing from judge's reasons ... United Petroleum franchise distress ... Damages of $72,347.40 ... Default judgment entered and then court approves a warrant for the arrest of the missing respondent ... The missing backstory 

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Thursday
Aug012019

The future - it's horrible

• DateThursday, August 1, 2019

Future of Law and Innovation Conference struggled with the technology ... Plentiful lunch options ...  AI ... Kirby adjudicated debate on "Uberisation" of lawyers ... How to use LinkedIn ... Space law ... Techno fonts ... Lawyerly prospects when technology fails ... Justice in the era of "late capitalism" ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Jul292019

David Hunt remembered

• DateMonday, July 29, 2019

Former NSW defamation judge and chief judge at common law dies at age 84 ... The List with Socratic case management ... Defamation exotica ... Refinement of pleadings, perhaps over-refinement ... Prodigious worker ... International criminal law ... UN criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda ... A league of his own ... Tributes from Graham Hryce, David Rolph, Justice Mark Ierace and Judge Judith Gibson 

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