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Entries in Michael Kirby (11)

Tuesday
Jan282025

A life in Commonwealth cars is not a good look

Scene beside the lake ... Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon ... A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good ... Taxi driver's failure to lament ... From Justinian's Archive, February 2, 2009 

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Friday
Dec162022

Roddy Meagher's book gets the Kirby treatment

Book review ... Portraits on Yellow Paper by P.R. Meagher and Simon Fieldhouse reviewed by Michael Kirby ... The reviewer sprinkles caustic comments about former appeal justice's character assassinations ... From the archives ... April 7, 2004

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Friday
Nov212014

Shake, rattle and roll 

Rose Bay real estate ... Brilliant suggestions for the High Court ... ICAC's special memories ... WCC appointment ... Knock About's liberal sprinkling of Gemmellisms

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Monday
Jul152013

Guilty and/or Not Guilty

Updated on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by Registered CommenterJustinian

Cracked trials ... Last minute change of plea from guilty to not guilty ... Consequences for the financial interests of lawyers ... Judges know about lawyers' financially driven shenanigans, but they keep shtum ... Tulkinghorn on how the system is mulcted 

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Tuesday
Nov202012

Sex and death

Shades of a torrid time in Townsville ... Media inquiries about Dyse ... Competition for Kirbs ... Slater & Gordon's referral fees ... How Queensland dropped out of the national profession reforms 

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Tuesday
May152012

A lustrous place in the sun

The "rule of law" drum is repeatedly beaten as a way of reinforcing the great importance of lawyers and judges ... Yet, if the going got tough would lawyers, at risk to themselves, really stand-up for the rule of law? ... Or would they look the other way if faced with tyranny? ... Tulkinghorn provides an answer  

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Tuesday
Apr122011

The ambivalence of friendship

Michael Kirby's monarchist mates rarely lent a hand to help him during the great crises of his life ... Tony Abbott was a royalist chum, but did nothing to stop Heffernan's onslaught ... The High Court was paralysed ... Gleeson and Gaudron shouting match over whether to support Kirby ... Review of impressive new biography, Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles

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Friday
Sep032010

Tulk would hire Kirby at the Pearly Gates

Michael Kirby swaps horses on our justice system ... When it operates, it operates very well ... How often might that be? ... Former High Court judge says there are not enough lawyers in politics ... Tulkinghorn thinks Kirby might have lost it

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Wednesday
Sep152004

With great respect

Warfare on the High Court ... McHugh and Kirbs go hammer and tongs on argument about "indefinite detention" for aliens ... Boys. Boys. That’s quite enough ... From Justinian's archive, September 15, 2004 ... Ouch 

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Thursday
Jun052003

Peasants and the monarchy

David Flint's correspondence hacked ... Kirbs keeps his money to himself ... More media grumps to NSW Court of Appeal ... Federal Court judges go feral over ALJ assault ... Hulls tearing at the exquisite finery of the law ... High Court travel "splurge" ... From Justinian's archive, June 5, 2003 

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Saturday
Jan012000

Forty nine years ago ... 

Move over Roddy Meagher, Michael Kirby is snapping at your heels ... From 1962 comes this attack in Honi Soit ... The brutality of student politicians ... From Justinian's bulging archive ... Déjà Vu

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