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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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Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 


 

 

 

Monday
Dec182023

Grant Donaldson SC

High profile Sand Groper from the WA bar n' grill is On the Couch ... Films, music, books ... Cases and crimes ... Preventative detention in migration cases ... Closed courts ... Eyes shut yet still awake 

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Friday
Dec152023

Big week with the zombies

High Court and UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration detainees ... Fear and loathing ... Remembering Gerry Hand ... Parliament's pre-Christmas meltdown ... Judiciary to sprinkle magic water over re-incarcerations ... Procrustes on the creeping encroachment of the State  

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Thursday
Dec142023

AI and its hallucinations

Generative AI is particularly counterproductive for the legal profession ... Rubbish in ... Rubbish out ... Mistakes and confirmation bias ... Precision and consistency under assault ... Veronica Lenard reports 

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Friday
Dec082023

Close to the source

The Map - Cowboy judge knocking over the china - One man's judicial rodeo, with leaks ... Mess-O-Potamia - Big Middle Eastern river system has court watches intrigued ... Justice Jenni slows down to set a new record ... Leading law academic shakes-up procedural fairness at the AAT ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Dec052023

The History Boys

ASIC v CBA ... "Grandfathering" and its origins ... Exposition by Justice Jackman ... An unfortunate connection to race-based voter restrictions in the US of A ... Inappropriate use of the word in legal jargon ... Other judicial history detours ... Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports 

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Sunday
Dec032023

Federal judge gets to grips with the fair minded observer

Bar career acting for the government in migration cases ... Multiple recusal applications ... Googling from the box ... Novel approaches ... Ducking the High Court's Bromwich decision 

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Friday
Dec012023

Moneybags update

Correction ... Willy Alstergren's pay day ... Plus, the AG's Department showers money on private law shops and counsel ... Steady annual increases on outlay for lawyers ... Happy days ... Ginger Snatch reruns the numbers 

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Friday
Nov242023

Julian Burnside

A barrister, much of whose career has been in the public eye ... Counsel to the rich and the deprived ... Flirting with politics ... Career change ... Retirement ... Relaxation and writing await ... On The Couch 

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Friday
Nov242023

Sandgroping Out West

Solicitor takes to the airwaves to defend client's toothbrush technique - Disciplinary proceedings and costs - Unhappy silk ... Fed Ct judge cleans the bottom drawer in readiness for departure ... Temper tantrums and bias - Difficult litigant ... Departure from appropriate judicial standards ... Groper files from Perth 

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