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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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      Another report from Brian Leveson ... The way judge and jury trials are organised is unsustainable ... If allowed to continue criminal justice in Britain will collapse
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      A special report on lawyers' assessments on whether to build or buy AI tools
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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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      Israel's war in Gaza has undermined freedom of speech and the international rule of law
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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Saturday
Nov052016

Don't mention it

• DateSaturday, November 5, 2016

Barrister wants his name and critical paragraphs removed from FCC judgment ... Donors' Day ... Application for suppression of the juicy bits ... Sperm donor parenting dispute ... Naaman Zhou reports 

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Friday
Oct282016

Octopuses on the loose

• DateFriday, October 28, 2016

High levels of groping and sexual harassment in the legal caper ... Female lawyers speak out in public about their experiences ... "Go to my chambers, take off your clothes and wait for me" ... Protected species ... Clarence Thomas ... SA District Court judge ... Randy law firm seniors ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Thursday
Oct272016

Philip Selth

• DateThursday, October 27, 2016

The retiring Philip Selth ... Long haul boss of the NSW bar bows out to write biographies and history ... Former bureaucrat who knows where a lot of bodies are buried ... He's fidgety but has succumbed to the couch 

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Wednesday
Oct262016

Panel beating

• DateWednesday, October 26, 2016

Tony Mason, Bob Ellicott, Gavan Griffith, David Bennett and Stephen Gageler shoot the breeze with Assoc Prof Gabrielle Appleby ... Life in the solicitor general lane ... Coping with mad attorneys general ... Odds on favourites to replace Justin Gleeson  

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Monday
Oct242016

Wot's going on?

• DateMonday, October 24, 2016

Theresa May on Boris Johnson ... IPSO rules on headscarf journalism ... Exploding child sex inquiry ... Tory paedo scares ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Friday
Oct212016

Judges behaving badly

• DateFriday, October 21, 2016

Global round-up of judicial misbehaviour ... The USA, Canada, Nigeria, UK and Brazil ... Judges indicted, expelled and sent to the star chamber ... Money, sex and stupidity the main cause of judicial ruin ... Justin Pen reports 

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Wednesday
Oct192016

The Misleader-General

• DateWednesday, October 19, 2016

Brandis trying to remember whether he got a fee discount from his AAT selection ... Grim reaper sweeps up George Masterman and former forensic medicine man ... Tickets for Sydney Grill Room elections ... Can former judges still be QCs? ... Proper finery for attendees at Melbourne jamboree ... And for High Court judges 

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Sunday
Oct162016

Gleeson ahead on points, but not enough to sink Brandis

• DateSunday, October 16, 2016

Attorney General Brandis is likely to survive this latest manifestation of his ineptitude ... Control freak attorney general damaged ... Parliamentary committee a circus ... Solicitor General Gleeson assisted by the performance of Coalition warthogs ... Legal Services Direction faces revocation ... SNAFU 

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Saturday
Oct152016

Mental as anything

• DateSaturday, October 15, 2016

Pleb-O-Cite ... Same sex marriage ... The debate has already attracted some pretty nasty and hurtful comments ... A campaign could get quite lunar ... But media lawyer Graham Hryce argues that using the mental health argument to close off discussion is a step too far 

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