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A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ... 

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      Attorneys General considering High Court's Bird decision ... Bid to create retrospective vicarious liability for institutional abuse
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      John Roberts CJ and the continuing Trumpification of the judiciary
    • Commonwealth Attorney General
      The PwC fallout ... AGs and Treasury review the use of legal professional privilege in government invistigations ... Obstruction and misuse of LPP ... Discussion Paper
    • Prospect
      Criminality at the heart of the Murdochs' business model
    • Andrew Farran in Pearls & Irritations
      The release of the Iraq war papers and what we are not told ... Government decisions that endanger our national security
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Bird on the wing ... Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP ... Read more >> 

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Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0 ... Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct ... Read more >> 

"Today is about Dad's wishes and confirming all of our support for him and for his wishes. It shouldn't be difficult or controversial. Love you, Lachlan."   

Lachlan Murdoch's text message to his sister Elisabeth on the eve of a special meeting to discuss altering the family trust so that Lachlan would run and control News Corp and Fox News ... Quoted in the opinion of the Nevada Probate Commissioner who ruled against changing the terms of the trust ... The New York Times, December 9, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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The great interceptor ... Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments ... Read more ... 

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Litigation's artful delays ... From Justinian's archive ... April 22, 2014 ... Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case  ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Thursday
Jun302016

Term's up for the US Supremes

• DateThursday, June 30, 2016

US Supremes scraping along one judge down ... Clarence Thomas distinguishes himself ... The failed Guantánamo experiment ... Detainees banned from reading senate's Feinstein report ... FOI and the release of CIA torture documents ... Obama adopts slabs of Bush law ... Lawyer donors snub Trump ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Thursday
Jun302016

Keeping an eye on a future attorney general

• DateThursday, June 30, 2016

State politics ... Ambitious law and order barrister and MP making waves on the backbench ... Frontbench beckons ... The story of the missing fee agreement  

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Friday
Jun242016

Bill me, thrill me

• DateFriday, June 24, 2016

Another chapter in the colourful life and times of Sydney solicitor Leigh Johnson ... NSWCA knocks out her fees of $2 million plus ... Working for more than 24 hours a day ... Australian Institute of Music ... A "most unusual" bill of costs ... Estoppel, with "extremely unusual" facts ... Hannah Ryan reports 

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Friday
Jun242016

A monstrous monstrosity

, • DateFriday, June 24, 2016

Deliriums on the Derwent ... Fear and loathing at the Taswegian bar n' grill ... Terrifying missives ... Unauthorised threats ... Dealing with a "hive of Sydney insects" ... The Map all shook-up 

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Wednesday
Jun222016

Brandis and his "boutique controversies" 

• DateWednesday, June 22, 2016

Following his debate with George Brandis on Monday evening, shadow AG Mark Dreyfus QC gives an assessment of his opponent and reviews the damage wrought by the current attorney general ... "Not fit for office" 

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Tuesday
Jun212016

Murder into manslaughter, and maybe back again 

• DateTuesday, June 21, 2016

The Baden-Clay case in the High Court ... Artemus Jones claims that appeal courts have a history of handing out softer sentences to perpetrators of violence against women ... Populist outcry verses learned legal commentators 

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Saturday
Jun182016

Remain or Leave

• DateSaturday, June 18, 2016

David Cameron looking vulnerable ... European referendum a big miscalculation ... It didn't have to be like this ... There'll be a lot of sorting out if Britain leaves ... Hillary Clinton and Christopher Hitchens on the murder of Jo Cox ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Monday
Jun132016

A place in the community

• DateMonday, June 13, 2016

Barely Legal samples the delights of both community law and Big Law ... The canapés are better at Big Law ... Scuffed brown shoes confirm his place in the hierarchy ... Blog post 

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Friday
Jun102016

Brandis neuters the Solicitor General

• DateFriday, June 10, 2016

Attorney General Brandis asserts political influence over Solicitor General Justin Gleeson ... Government access to the Solicitor General to be controlled by AG ... More outsourcing of constitutional advise to the private bar ... Ideological agenda at play 

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