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      Prominent criminal barrister disbarred over false claims he studied at Oxford
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      Reasonable belief ... The first successful application of the public interest defence for defamation in Australia
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      Pam Bondi ... Trump's fixer ... Law bender ... And Attorney General
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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"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." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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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 >> 

 

 

 

Wednesday
Mar272024

Courtroom capers

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Trump ... Looking for the cash bond ... Lenders likely to be stiffed ... Supreme Court bends over for Trump ... Novel arguments for immunity ... Idiocy has its appeal ... From Washington, Roger Fitch reports 

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Wednesday
Mar272024

Happy ending?

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Thai massages ... Brittany Higgins private communications ... NACC looks at leaks to media hacks ... Contempt of court ... Hitting on Leon Zwier ... Vendetta ... New pastures for Whybrow ... The Federal Court and the defamation racket ... From our Chief City Correspondent 

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Sunday
Mar242024

It's customary

• DateSunday, March 24, 2024

Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files 

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Friday
Mar222024

Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

• DateFriday, March 22, 2024

Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Friday
Mar152024

Slumbering snails

• DateFriday, March 15, 2024

Judges and their delays ... Agonising cogitations ... Trials derailed ... Start again ... Dreamers awake ... Award time for the coveted Golden Snail 

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Wednesday
Mar132024

Solicitor's swan song sounds in contempt

• DateWednesday, March 13, 2024

Trading without a ticket ... Manager appointed ... Obstruction and hinderance ... "Medical issues" ... Contempt ... One month's prison - suspended ... Not sorry ... Anthony-James Kanaan reporting 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

University turns tail on Drumgold

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

University of Canberra wilts in the heat ... Drumgold's academic appointment cancelled ... Unrelenting and biased media attacks ... Lily-livered university administrators ... From the newsletter 500 Words, or thereabouts 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

Yarraside - fresh agitation

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

Skirmish over how to spend $600,000 of barristers' money sitting in Victorian CJ's piggybank ... Tightwads are opposed to the Owen Dixon Memorial Childcare Centre ... Alarming problem if nippers are located where criminals are visiting their briefs ... Woke Wars ... Peach Melba reports 

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Monday
Mar112024

Sofronoff scuppered

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland 

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