Back in the glare

Updated on Friday, February 15, 2013 by Justinian

It's a pity the denizens of Sydney were deprived of reading many of the details of criminal proceedings involving the Ibrahim family ... Heavy-handed court suppression orders effectively shut-off news reporting of a conspiracy to murder case against Michael Ibrahim ... John Ibrahim's name also ordered to be unmentionable 

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Sexual identity, prison and the law

Court ordered sex reassignment surgery for convicted murderer ... Transsexuals' rights to medical treatment in prison ... Cruel and unusual punishment ... 8th amendment ... Political and media storm over judge's decision ... Reassurance for Bradley Manning's female alter-ego ... Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne report 

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The nourishment of babes

Artemus Jones bemoans the descent into acrimonious attacks on those who express unpopular views ... Wither free speech? ... Channel 7 "personality" and the manufactured hoopla on breast-feeding in public 

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Back into it

Some barristers have to slink back to work because of their shameful antics at the end-of-year chamber's party ... Junior Junior is not one of them ... She stayed late at the party and now has something up her sleeve that may prove useful on a rainy night 

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A glimpse of the future

ASIO and refugees' security assessments ... The High Court trod gingerly in the M47 case ... Now its earlier finding on permanent detention is up-for-grabs by a differently constituted court ... Lawyers for asylum seekers will be back for another round 

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Motherhood at the bar

There are rules for women who have children while at the bar ... No space for joys of motherhood ... Junior Junior unmoved by WBF instructions 

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Misinformation and the law

The editor of Justinian tells the AGS information law conference in Canberra that if freedom of the press allows for the protection of a certain amount of misinformation, it should also do more to protect the truth ... The dangers of a statutory tort of privacy ... Speech ... Speech ... Speech

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Morsi crosses a great river

Egyptians (some of them) vote to ratify a flawed Constitution ... Grab to entrench Islamist power ... Pluralism unlikely to succeed ... More for Morsi ... Background to Egypt's convulsion from Stephen Keim and Mary Ayad 

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Cartoonist in hot water

Storm on social media and the blogosphere over Jenny Coopes' cartoon ... When is enough, enough? ... Community outcry forces cartoonist into hiding ... Democracy at work 

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Seamless expressions of empathy

The evolution of human rights to animal rights ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski trace the movement from Pythagoras to vegetarian monsters to William Wilberforce ... Animal rights and vegetarianism  

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Tobacco wars

The recent High Court ruling on the the packaging of cigarettes is not the last word ... The tobacco companies have turned to international fora in three parallel proceedings ... Potential downside is huge ... Mary Ayad argues that the Australia's sovereign interests should trump an argument about intellectual property rights 

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Alannah Hill, barrister

Junior Junior is not a lesbian ... She wears pink heels and still wins in the traffic court ... Two types of women barristers ... Both lethal 

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Patel trial - what went wrong

Community pressure and the justice system ... Frenzied media storm ... Prosecution shifted from a wide case to a narrower one ... Earlier evidence prejudicial ... Mud slinging exercise ... Stephen Keim and Salwa Marsh report

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Psycho or psychic?

Six qualities that law firms really need in a new graduate ... Psychic powers are a job-clincher ... Draft letter from student-at-large 

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Leg break

Extracting overdue money from a solicitor while still being smarmy enough to get further briefs ... The waiting game ... So sorry to bother you ... Junior Junior thinks it time to break some legs 

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