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"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." 

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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 >> 

 

 

 

Thursday
Oct312024

In due course

• DateThursday, October 31, 2024

A toxic relationship ... A judge prone to boiling over ... Waxing ... Failure to get a grip on child-like temperament ... Pants on fire ... Some of the granular details ... Ginger Snatch reporting 

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Monday
Oct282024

Blue sky litigation 

• DateMonday, October 28, 2024

Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium 

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Monday
Oct282024

Vale Percy Allan AM

• DateMonday, October 28, 2024

Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art 

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Friday
Oct182024

Bring me the head of Diego Garcia

• DateFriday, October 18, 2024

Chagossians and their lost homeland ... British courts fail to deliver ... Stolen rocks in the Indian Ocean ... Common law's inability to deal with state power ... Enter the ICJ ... Handover to Mauritius ... Septics rule the waves ... Ilois keep off ... Procrustes on the perils of piracy 

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Tuesday
Oct152024

Where's Dwight Eisenhower when you need him?

• DateTuesday, October 15, 2024

Supreme Court's new term ... Judicial culture war ... Motions for Trump's immunity determinations ... Cognitive decline on the election trail ... Judges waiting to muddle the election results ... Election countdown ... Plans for a new Supreme Court ... Our US legal correspondent Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Oct152024

Balkan intrigues

• DateTuesday, October 15, 2024

Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Serried ranks of lawyers before Acting Justice Hulme ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports 

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Monday
Oct142024

Drumgold cleared 

• DateMonday, October 14, 2024

SCOOP ... Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council ... Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct ... Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons ... Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian 

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Thursday
Oct102024

All in good time ... 

• DateThursday, October 10, 2024

Fresh delays ... Slow boats ... Justice Jenni's benchmark for lateness ... Reynolds v Higgins - court says we can have a redacted affidavit but don't publish it ... Sandy Groper reports 

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Wednesday
Oct092024

Extra bread and dripping

• DateWednesday, October 9, 2024

Costs breakthrough for migration lawyers who labour against the odds ... Filing fees and professional costs ahoy ... Full Federal Court overturns minister's miserable approach to costs for successful applicants ... Minister's gilded team of briefs fail to move the Fulls 

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