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Entries in Supreme Court of Queensland (10)

Friday
Nov212014

Carmody watch

Brisbane field agents keep an eye on the work of the learned Chief Justice of Queensland ... Knock About's sentencing error ... Blunders in contract land ... No complaints from lawyers, who are kept furiously busy with stay applications 

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Friday
Aug152014

The sound of one man bowing

Solo bows ceremony grips Molonglo Supremes ... Press releases flowing from the QE11 Cauldron ... Slater & Gordon minting it as acquisitions pile up 

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Friday
Aug082014

Brisbane notebook

Judges bite back at criticisms from The Government Gazette ... Shane Doyle wins prize for most complicated high-dive at Knock-About's welcome ... Someone messing with the Cossack's air machine ... Lord Eldon calls for chiro help ... Bizarre attack on Fitzgerald and Margaret McMurdo ... Lawn Order Week 

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Monday
Jul282014

News from the QE11 Cauldron

Knock About running onto the paddock ... Muir JA sends critical missive to Nudgee Old Boys ... CJ out of his league with civil work, now fresh blunder comes to light on sentencing ... Newman and the Conveyancer General try and mend fences with judges and lawyers ... Knock About on the speech circuit 

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Sunday
Jun222014

Carmody of Errors

Updated on Monday, June 23, 2014 by Registered CommenterJustinian

The politicisation of the Chief Justice ... Divisions deepen ... Lord Eldon's straddle ... Fresh round-up of The Carmody Capers ... From our Brisbane field agents 

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Tuesday
Jun102014

Carmody rising

The stage is set for Queensland government's favoured bovver boy of the bench to be legged-up to CJ ... Deep soundings with the bar and QLS ... "No criticism" undertakings have been extracted by the Conveyancer General ... Cossack says Tim Carmody is unsuitable to lead the judiciary ... Bar as good as endorses chief magistrate for CJ 

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Thursday
Feb272014

Line-up for new CJ of Queensland 

Names, form and potential ... Who's in contention for the chief's job ... Age and weight a factor ... Farewell Daphnis - it was great fun 

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Tuesday
Jan082013

Daphnis' new shed

Sir Terence O'Rort dismayed by the new, modern law courts in Brisbane ... Too way out for people of traditional values ... Puzzling artworks ... Punters and practitioners bewildered ... Massive judicial over-statement 

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Monday
Mar072011

Crack in glass ceiling

Increase in X chromosomes on Queensland Supreme Court ... Attorney General Dick's outgoing appointments ... Sir Terence O'Rort analyses the great social, cultural and gender shifts in the Queensland judiciary

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Tuesday
Jan252011

Her Roziness

The Kafkaesque world of case flow management ... Surviving the Intervention Notice pantomime ... Case management judge skewered by Qld CA ... Sir Terence O'Rort reporting from Brisvegas

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