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"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." 

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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 >> 

 

 

 

Saturday
May202023

The judicial conscience floats free

• DateSaturday, May 20, 2023

Recusal process splits the Saloon ... Who should consider a bias application? ... All over the shop on judicial "ethics" ... Challenge to the appearance of justice over its substance ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
May192023

Life in the chaos lane

• DateFriday, May 19, 2023

Mental ailments strike prominent crime solicitor ... Teeth and leg problems ... Unconvincing submissions from colourful medicos ... Staff claiming unpaid money ... Law shop disarray ... Public protection out the window ... Ostrich-like behaviour ... Inability to open emails 

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Thursday
May112023

Stone the Crow

• DateThursday, May 11, 2023

The sexual battery verdict against Trump ... Further peril pending ... Clarence Thomas in the pocket of reactionary benefactor ... Secret gifts sink the remnants of SCOTUS' ethical standing ... Ousting the veto power of state governors ... Voting limitations run riot ... Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Thursday
May112023

Laments from across the Nullarbor

• DateThursday, May 11, 2023

Solicitors and women surging onto the bench in Western Australia ... Old timers incandescent ... Claims of inadequate trial experience for Supreme Court appointment ... Male silks overlooked ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
May092023

Wither pro bono?

• DateTuesday, May 9, 2023

There's no such thing as a free lunch ... And free lawyers are just as scarce ... Pro bono arrangement scrapped by SA appeal court ... Disincentive for lawyers to do the hard yards on wrongful conviction cases ... Hugh Selby writes 

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Sunday
May072023

Law of dispossession

• DateSunday, May 7, 2023

Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at Yass ... An end to the grand piano ... An alternative consideration of New South Wales ... Review by Max Shanahan 

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Friday
Apr282023

We have Wood

• DateFriday, April 28, 2023

Vic's Bar struggles with the Voice ... Should there be a position at all? ... Financial Review'slegal affairs man ticked off ... Old grizzlies out of the cage ... NSW bar run by "woke" mullahs ... More kero on the flames ... Peach Melba with Yarraside Yarns 

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Friday
Apr282023

Window ledges crowded in Phillip Street

• DateFriday, April 28, 2023

Law Society staff and councillors jostle for space on the ledges as more flee the premises ... Regional Women Lawyers ruckus ... Concentration of power alienates young lawyers and smaller firms ... Escrow accounts for barristers create jitters ... Prospective streamlined discipline process ... Fresh hell ... From our intrepid reporter Theodora 

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Wednesday
Apr262023

Brandis era terror laws ripe for parody

• DateWednesday, April 26, 2023

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor urges abolition of continuing detention orders ... Risky risk assessment tool ... Critical review suppressed by Home Affairs ... Benbrika case ... Disproportionate Brandis-era terror laws ... Max Shanahan reports 

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