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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

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Wednesday
Nov272013

Noble sentiments bite lawyer on the bottom

Failure to follow one's own advice ... Adventures in Discovery Land ... High Court goes to town on failure to return privileged doscuments ... Bollicking for NSW Appeals and Marque Lawyers ... Marque's chieftan so eloquant on matters of principle ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Tuesday
Nov262013

Readers fees are reasonable, says Selth

Letter to Justinian from NSW bar 'n' grill ... In defence of readers fees ... Barrister's homophobic attack deplored ... Response to Dance of the sugar plum fairy 

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Friday
Nov222013

Dance of the sugar plum fairy

Anti-gay rant from barrister ... Upsetting bar election results ... The Page Boy to receive a good talking-to ... Bar's monopoly fees for readers ... Jarrod Bleijie is dancing rings around No Waves 

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Wednesday
Nov202013

Bully for you

Department of inhuman resources ... Question time ... WorkCover NSW in the dock over bullying ... The workplace health and safety enforcer with an unhealthy workplace ... Alix Piatek reports  

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Wednesday
Nov202013

Spanking with wet lettuce 

Defenestration of Qld's independent legal profession regulator ... Powerless to administer decent spanks ... The system was designed to be half-baked ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Monday
Nov182013

Whirlpool's reverse cycle

Clerkship candidates share law firm stories and advice online ... Networking and marks the key to getting a foot in the door ... Beware the perils of the cocktail party ... Paul Karp surveys the social media strategy helping students get past the spin 

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Monday
Nov182013

Am I missing something? 

Louis Brandeis J warned you about evesdropping ... Undercover work and the risk of paternity suits ... Queensland's VLAD law clearly aimed at criminal clubs such as the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches ... Well-educated Brit trooper shoots Taliban prisoner ... Procrustes opines 

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Wednesday
Nov132013

Say sorry

No costs when offer of compromise has grammatical errors ... Apologise to Wal, insists Antagonistic ... Clients get money back from national law shop 

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Monday
Nov112013

Bring on the cakes

Map of Tasmania ... Minimal laughter at editor's oration to magistrates ... Lingering questions unanswered ... Ellis case 

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Monday
Nov112013

Fresh phlegm

Expectoration in Phillip Street ... Keys hands in his key at St James Hall ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Thursday
Nov072013

From the bear pit

Labor barrister returns to NSW parliament ... Collier's by-election victory rescues Opposition Leader John Robertson from caucus coup ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell recalls Keating's anti-Robbo spray 

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Tuesday
Nov052013

Pineapple Pol

Updated on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Registered CommenterJustinian

Vroom, Vroom ... Qld magistrates go on red alert for bikie menace ... Court of Appeal to decide on separation of powers ... Or will appeal judges do "what the community wants"? 

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Tuesday
Nov052013

Operatic costume change 

Defamatorium ... Kim Williams lawyers-up against the newspaper his lawyers used to defend ... Opera House hissy fit denied ... Working both sides of Libel Street ... It's not over till the fat lady sings 

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Sunday
Nov032013

Vic Supremes bungy jump experiment

Out of the closet ... Vic Supremes showing its face to the world ... NSW CJ skeptical about social media ... Different approaches to handling spreading the rule-of-law message ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Wednesday
Oct302013

Terrorist haberdashers

Rich pickings to be had from new season at the Supremes ... All aboard for questioning on the high seas ... NY trials for alleged embassy bombers ... What to do with all the evesdropped information? ... IT problems for defence counsel at Guantánamo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports 

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Tuesday
Oct292013

Entertainment boutiques brace for the next act

Entertainment law field not crowded but full of "pretenders" ... Technology, not competition, the real game changer ... Paul Karp surveys the specialist firms with glamour-puss clients  

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Monday
Oct282013

All the Queen's horses 

The Wyles One touting new numbers favouring QC option for Yarraside bar ... Five percent speak ... Sydney barrister Greg Curtin issues bar election manifesto: solicitors can be bad for the administration of justice

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Sunday
Oct272013

On your bike

Foul mouthed Queensland lawyer sent, again, to the Bureau de Spank ... Doesn't care, as he says he's about the retire ... Doug and his Winning ways ... SA Supreme Court says public confidence in the legal profession is of the utmost importance ... Oops, they much have forgotten the hit-and-run case of Eugene McGee 

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Wednesday
Oct232013

Whyte man's burden

Unsatisfactory professional conduct … Delayed flight ... Trial missed … Trouble getting off sub-tropical island ... Conferenceville ... Rest and recreation ... Egregious error 

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Monday
Oct212013

Another date with The Sheik

Eddie (The Sheik) Obeid returns to ICAC on October 28 ... Circular Quay leases under the microscope ... Has Carl (Sparkles) Scully's payback time arrived? ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell exhumes the details  

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