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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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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 >> 

 

 

 

Thursday
May262022

More time with the family

• DateThursday, May 26, 2022

Craig McLachlan's defamation calamity ... Bad time at the reputation repair shop ... Why on earth did he sue? ... Huge bills and a big blot on the escutcheon ... Crowing on Channel 7 did not help ... Significant outcome for journalism and the #MeToo movement ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Wednesday
May252022

The money grab for new grads

• DateWednesday, May 25, 2022

Top tier law shops ... Soaring pay packets for law graduates ... Salaries hit $100k for fresh recruits ... Instagram survey ... Pay secrecy and inequality ... Social media collects the numbers ... Henry Chen has the data 

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Tuesday
May172022

Wyvill's war

• DateTuesday, May 17, 2022

Darwin's close-knit law and justice patch ... Leading Darwin silk complains to the Judicial Commission about the conduct of a NT Supreme Court judge ... Finding that it was reasonably open to suspect the judge of being "politically partisan" and bearing malice ... Role of chief justice ... Fallout from flawed Stella Maris investigation ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Monday
May162022

Ding Dong

• DateMonday, May 16, 2022

Chief Justice Andrew Bell ... Urging an end to remoteness ... At loggerheads with Victorian counterpart ... Profession in peril ... Conviviality is king ... Trouble padding-up ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Sunday
May152022

The cuckoo's nest

, • DateSunday, May 15, 2022

Authorities back off newspaper ban for Crow Eating prisoners ... Madam Cash stars in ABA divine comedy ... Court orders law shop to pay the money back ... Vic's new silks required to keep their hands to themselves ... Job swap in Phillip Street ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
May122022

Anyone for soup?

• DateThursday, May 12, 2022

A Witness of Fact, reviewed by Procrustes ... The shocking case of the under-qualified chief pathologist ... A trail of flawed evidence and miscarried justice ... The dangers of the impregnable loner 

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Wednesday
May042022

Curb your rights

, • DateWednesday, May 4, 2022

Human rights are far too flakey for this regime ... Captains' picks undermine the independence of the Human Rights Commission ... Global assessment body asks for a proper selection process ... Shameful B-status looms ... Labor Party changes shoes on the Collaery case ... Affront to the rule of law ... Lectures burned at UTas law school ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
May022022

Tribulation at the tribunal

, • DateMonday, May 2, 2022

AAT ... Liberal appointment makes a hash of it ... Failed to engage with submissions ... Misapplication of the law ... Start again ... Pre-election festival of appointments ... 12 years after a compensation claim was filed there's still no final determination ... Obstruction and errors 

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Friday
Apr292022

Getting kids to school

• DateFriday, April 29, 2022

NSW ... March of the state ... Regulatory paralysis of the right to protest ... Law n' Order ... Roads, bridges, tunnels, smelters, steelworks, ports, coal-fired power stations - all out of bounds ... Perrottet and pals take on the activists ... Max Shanahan reporting 

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