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Entries in Eddie Obeid (7)

Friday
Aug222014

Don't Hazzard a guess on Queen's bauble for NSW bar

• DateFriday, August 22, 2014

Rotten clients ... Pulp mill ... Brown stuff ... Fresh rallying call for NSW to appoint QCs 

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Wednesday
Apr232014

The men from Colin Biggers & Paisley

• DateWednesday, April 23, 2014

Colin Biggers & Paisley has spent plenty of time getting acquainted with the ICAC ... Law firm by appointment to the Obeids ... Former managing partner Nick Di Girolamo is the hottest potato around town ... Transcript heaven 

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Monday
Oct212013

Another date with The Sheik

• DateMonday, October 21, 2013

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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Aug302013

Basten Chambers

• DateFriday, August 30, 2013

High-rise glamour for new chambers ... Looking at lawyers' productivity ... Inner sanctum for LegalSuper ... Ornaments of parliamentary democracy  

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Wednesday
Aug072013

Appendix 3

• DateWednesday, August 7, 2013

Last minute desperation ... After the ICAC hearing concluded, lawyers for the baddies wheel out a barrow-load of issues ... ICAC investigation should have been run more like a trial ... Ipp squelches Hale and Littlemore ... Gratuitous complaints about counsel assisting dismissed 

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Tuesday
May282013

More front than Mark Foys

• DateTuesday, May 28, 2013

Slender line-up of MPs put the lie to Obeid's ICAC evidence ... The requirement to notify commission of corrupt conduct has been ignored for years ... Hence Eddie and others have thumbed their snouts at the corruption fighting body ... Alex Mitchell reports 

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Friday
Nov302012

The art of the menacing letter

• DateFriday, November 30, 2012

Lawyers' threatening letters ... Heavy handed attempts to get the media or campaigning activists to back-off ... Spectre of defamation proceedings and aggravated damages ... Huffing and puffing that goes nowhere 

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