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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 >> 

 

 

 

Tuesday
Mar082022

Damp spirits

• DateTuesday, March 8, 2022

Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal 

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Thursday
Mar032022

Foreign affairs

, • DateThursday, March 3, 2022

News from far corners ... Western Australia and Tasmania ... SC agitation ... Finding the right appointment "process" ... Displaced Circus Court judge pops up in Hobart ... Outcry over fiddling with the law course at U Tas ... Theodora on the parapet 

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Thursday
Mar032022

Meretricious malarky

• DateThursday, March 3, 2022

The war in Ukraine crashes head-on into NSW's ICAC ... The Tamil on fire ... Analogies stretched ... Weird newspaper column ... Important bits missing ... The Law of Rulers goes troppo 

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Tuesday
Mar012022

There's sunshine in Queensland

• DateTuesday, March 1, 2022

Helen Bowskill ... The new chief justice of Queensland ... Biographical details ... Empathy and smarts ... From legal secretary to lead singer with the Supremes ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports from Brisbane 

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Saturday
Feb262022

Clueless judges 

• DateSaturday, February 26, 2022

Sleaze on the bench ... Wandering hands ... Half-baked apologies from sexually harassing judges ... Professional boundaries violated ... Claim that investigations not legitimate ... Hiding behind legal mumbo jumbo ... The penny that never drops 

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Tuesday
Feb222022

On a search for whimsy

• DateTuesday, February 22, 2022

What do law students do during the summer break ... Start a newspaper ... A counterpoint to the law's dry stuff ... First edition of Amicus Courier online now ... From Djokovic to haiku ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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Friday
Feb182022

Legitimate political discourse

• DateFriday, February 18, 2022

Net closing, all too slowly, on Trump ... Deserted by accountants ... Flushing papers ... Destruction and obstruction ... Supreme Court odds-on the uphold racial gerrymanders ... Voting rights for the chopper ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Feb152022

Birds on the wire

, • DateTuesday, February 15, 2022

God cancels judges' birthdays ... Freedom from religious violence ... Victorian barristers told to be nice to each other ... Pole positions for NSW CJ ... Judge whacks silk for unworthiness ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Feb152022

Quo Vadis, Aida?

, • DateTuesday, February 15, 2022

Bosnian war crimes ... The Srebrenica massacre ... The fruitless struggle to save a family ... Failure of the United Nations and NATO ... Europe's worst bloodshed since WW11 ... Miss Lumière at the cinema  

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