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"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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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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Friday
Jun102016

The waiver that never was

• DateFriday, June 10, 2016

Lawrie v Lawler ... Case that has riven the Top End legal community ... Foreign judges brought in for appeal that basically clears the former president of the NT bar of misconduct findings ... Commission of inquiry set up by political opponents of former minister ... Full examination of the judgment from Hannah Ryan 

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Wednesday
Jun082016

Tales from a small triangular island

• DateWednesday, June 8, 2016

The Murray Scheme ... Trust account interest for unemployed lawyers ... Cocktails on the pier ... Judge's gastronomic experiences in Manchester ... Notes from The Map 

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Monday
Jun062016

Ian Hancock

• DateMonday, June 6, 2016

Ian Hancock is the biographer of Tom Hughes QC, a hero of the Sydney bar ... He has submitted to Justinian's probing, intimate questions on the eve of the book's publication ... Biographing a biographer  

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Friday
Jun032016

Treats from the Top End

• DateFriday, June 3, 2016

Wyvill gets a breather from NT appeal court ... Grant Samuel rejigs Slater & Gordon ... Barrister suggests that if his client had more money someone else would have been briefed ... Bluto Watch 

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Thursday
Jun022016

Wagnerian opera goes centre stage in Brisneyland

• DateThursday, June 2, 2016

Big defamation action grips Banana-Benders ... Concrete Kings v Mouth from the South ... Big Al Jones doubles down ... Taxpayers pick up the tab for Can Do's and Jiving Jarrod's apology-free zone 

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Saturday
May282016

All stand

• DateSaturday, May 28, 2016

Special law to enforce respect for judges ... Legislative loopiness ... Closing the gap between contempt and disrespect 

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Thursday
May262016

Stick it up your briefs

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Queensland bar council says national equitable briefing policy is potentially "divisive" ... BAQ won't play along with Law Council's plans to improve the lot of women barristers ... Qld. is different, says bar prez, Christopher Hughes ... Lofty correspondence 

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Thursday
May262016

Wiggy conniptions

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Dewigging transcript ... An uplifting piece of transcript from May 24 is doing the rounds of Vic's Bar n' Grill ... Justice Kevin Bell gets serious about wigs' policy ... Turning up wearing a wig is an insult to Earl Warren CJ ... Briefs grovel and remove their hairpieces ... Wig protocol a matter of law ... Judge expresses his profound disappointment 

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Friday
May202016

Yarraside's fragrant delights

• DateFriday, May 20, 2016

Marketing breakthrough as barrister appears on the side of trams ... Reptiles of the media warned not to connect coke sniffing associate with Federal Court judges ... Hands up for deputy NSW DPP ... Gilbert + Tobin spruces its image but keeps the plus ... Industrial action - how the Poms campaigned effectively against Cameron government's legal aid cuts 

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