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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
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      The PwC fallout ... AGs and Treasury review the use of legal professional privilege in government invistigations ... Obstruction and misuse of LPP ... Discussion Paper
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      Criminality at the heart of the Murdochs' business model
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      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
Oct152015

Remembering Andre Simon

• DateThursday, October 15, 2015

Gabriel Wendler on Andre Simon ... Founder of the Wine and Food Society ... Prolific author on grape related matters ... Champagne aficionado ... Expert witness in wine litigation ... One bottle left in his cellar at time of death 

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Friday
Sep252015

Dear barrister - why don't you toss out the toffs at the top?

• DateFriday, September 25, 2015

NSW bar elections loom and Margaret Cunneen is out of the blocks early with a campaigning missive ... Letter to members attacking bar leaders ... Unheard of politicking ... Council disfunction ... Vote for ME, I share your distress ... Mother Margaret will look after you 

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Friday
Sep252015

The Wolf of Phillip Street

• DateFriday, September 25, 2015

Drugs and lawyers ... Lawyers and drugs ... Getting busted while on the roll ... The stories that 'come up' at lunch ... Don't forget the CCTV cameras ... From our baby barrister blogger, Unrobed 

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Thursday
Sep242015

Humans want their rights

• DateThursday, September 24, 2015

Queensland on high alert as human rights bandwagon starts to roll ... Eight year review of Vic's Charter of Rights calls for more teeth, less gum 

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Thursday
Sep242015

Moot point

• DateThursday, September 24, 2015

Barely Legal does his first moot and has an out-of-body realisation ... Of course, it's about the "experience" - never mind the winning ... Breathe in, breathe out ... Our student-at-law blogs 

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Wednesday
Sep232015

Fit and proper

• DateWednesday, September 23, 2015

Discipline & Bondage ... From Queensland to NSW, appeal judges have been scratching their noggins trying to work out what's fit and proper ... The extent to which past misconduct affects current properness ... A practitioner who, as a teenager, accessed child porn is F&P, while a solicitor who helps himself to a temporary loan from his clients' pool of cash, is not ... Emily Meller and Kate Lilly reporting 

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Sunday
Sep202015

Advocaat's immunity - shaken and stirred

• DateSunday, September 20, 2015

Advocates immunity up for review in the High Court ... Justice John Byrne challenges his mother's $17 million estate ... Carol Cunneen has her say about sister Margaret 

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Thursday
Sep172015

The salad days of Malcolm Turnbull

, • DateThursday, September 17, 2015

The new prime minister's celebrated missteps and misjudgments ... Blunderbuss ... Overplaying his Costigan hand ... Trauma at Tourang ... Goldman Sachs and FAI ... Not-so-ancient history 

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Wednesday
Sep162015

Love letters to a cat

• DateWednesday, September 16, 2015

Love in the seventies ... A young Malcolm Turnbull warns his ex-girlfriend’s cat about the treachery of new boyfriends ... Cat asked to intercede in broken romance drama ... A Justinian exclusive ... From the archive, June 17, 2009 

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