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Friday
Mar082019

Dietrich still alive and kicking

• DateFriday, March 8, 2019

The money spigot turned off ... Legal Aid comes to the party after Supreme Court temporarily halts the Family Court bomber trial ... Available dollars all spent before the massive trial began ... Puzzle over transfer of property to accused's wife ... Gabrielle Hunter reports 

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Friday
Mar082019

Adelaide's QC rupture

• DateFriday, March 8, 2019

South Australian bar and CJ at loggerheads on new queenies ... Judges opposed to appointment of new QCs ... Adoption of the Victorian model ... Court likely not to participate in the selection process ... Unilateral government appointment of QCs ... "Political silks" 

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Thursday
Mar072019

Letter from Sal

• DateThursday, March 7, 2019

Hello Everyone ... Sal Vasta writes to the judges of the FCC ... Two Wigs Willy is back ... Sal steps down as acting chief judge ... Sense of duty and service ... Court in a sorry state, but don't despair ... Work ethic of the Full Family Court ... "Bombardment" of criticism, some of it gratuitous ... Darkest of times ... Sal slowing down 

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Friday
Mar012019

AAT selections with Liberal gold star ratings

• DateFriday, March 1, 2019

Appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ... System of preferment and patronage ... The Christian Porter's stack is the most audacious in living memory ... Merit missing in action ... Party hacks come home to roost ... Where's Tubby Callinan's report? ... Janek Drevikovsky goes through the list, name by name 

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Thursday
Feb282019

Sal sitting on the sorry stool

• DateThursday, February 28, 2019

Senior judges concerned over suggestion that Judge Vasta of the Circuit Court would be promoted to sit in the Family Court ... Concerns may have prompted early circulation of appeal judgments all highly critical of Vasta's judgments ... To cap it off, Sal is now a defendant in a Queensland defamation case 

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Tuesday
Feb262019

Wrestling with the rudeness rule

• DateTuesday, February 26, 2019

The long-running rude letters case ... Calling another solicitor "fundamentally dishonest" ... Is this a breach of professional standards? ... Has the exquisite finery of the legal profession been sullied? ... Judges are having trouble making up their minds ... Is the rule against rudeness a threat to free speech? ... Everyone hoped Yarraside appeals had the last word ... Now a special leave application looms ... Janek Drevikovsky follows the long and winding trail 

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Friday
Feb222019

Too much mush

• DateFriday, February 22, 2019

James Baldwin doused in a layer of syrup ... US justice ... Where's Atticus Finch when you need him? ... Black lives, white injustice ... Love, politics and melodrama ... Miss Lumière reviews If Beale Street Could Talk  

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Thursday
Feb212019

Salutary lesson

• DateThursday, February 21, 2019

UPDATE ... Porter wants Vasta for the Family Court ... Standby as more critical judgments about Sal are in the appeal pipeline ... Two-Wigs' special envoy for case management has trouble managing his own cases ... Not only Stradford & Stradford, now there's Navarro & Navarro ... The terrible legacy of Soapy Brandis 

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Monday
Feb182019

Strange sightings

• DateMonday, February 18, 2019

Ghostly apparition of shuffled off chief justice ... Federal Court vacancy in Perth ... NT's family friendly ICAC ... "The troubles" are over for former Clutz warrior ... Election deadline for appointments ... Lawyer sacked over boozy partner allegations ... Theodora reports 

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