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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." 

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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 >> 

 

 

 

Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

, • DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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Wednesday
Oct052022

Exceptional circumstances

, • DateWednesday, October 5, 2022

Where's the sunshine? ... Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks ... Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings ... The hurdle is already unnecessarily high ... What reputational damage? ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct042022

Jayne gets High

• DateTuesday, October 4, 2022

Jayne Jagot ... A humble non-silk ... She reached for the stars ... A serious case of the smarts ... Identified by Mark Dreyfus at least seven years ago ... Significant judgments ... High Court test in Chelmsford looming ... Rarely without trousers ... Theodora reports 

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Saturday
Oct012022

The Mason-Katz Doctrine

• DateSaturday, October 1, 2022

Appointments to AAT ... Questions of constitutional invalidity ... Pre-election Coalition gifts ... Unsuitable appointments ... Dreyfus responds ... Former judges raise issues of legitimacy ... Extended and overlapping terms ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Sep302022

Down with the Magyar judges

• DateFriday, September 30, 2022

How Viktor Orbán and Hungary's right wing populists have choked the independence of the judiciary ... Legislative "reforms" ... Step-by-step creation of an "Illiberal-Christian Democracy" ... Constitutional Court neutered ... Roadmap to autocracy ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep232022

Recusal report

• DateFriday, September 23, 2022

Department of bad looks ... Defamation judge in WA refuses to step aside from a trial in which she had previously worked for the plaintiff's counsel ... Non-disclosure of prior working relationship ... Cherry picking ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep222022

News from on High

• DateThursday, September 22, 2022

Latest Simon Steward reversal ... 6-0 finding by the High Court ... Fourth time on the outer ... What went wrong? ... Selection process not up to scratch ... Plus, the inquiry into Brother Scott's multiple ministries ... Fortunately, a retired member of the Saloon is available for the heavy lifting ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep212022

Round up the usual suspects

• DateWednesday, September 21, 2022

Lifting a necklace and $20 ... High risk detention swings into action ... High Court sprinkles more fairy dust on executive imprisonment ... Alarming rate of Indigenous incarceration in WA made worse ... Political populism ... Procrustes examines the "feel safe" factor 

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