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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 >> 


 

 

 

Wednesday
Dec222021

It's Christmas for sexually harassing brief

NSW Court of Appeal protects offensive barrister ... Identity kept under wraps for 20 years ... Resignations and redundancies at the bar association, the law society and the AAT ... Judge denounces boring dinner parties ... Political hacks seeking credit for judicial appointment ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Dec212021

Exquisite finery and dirty linen

The High Court in the 1930s ... Judges bickering and distrustful of each other ... Drawing on dairy notes, Gideon Haigh details the disharmony ... Was this a period of peak judicial unhappiness ... Justice in the hands of riven justices ... C.N. Brown reporting 

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Monday
Dec202021

Vasta sued for misconduct - trial adjourned

Judge on trial ... Federal Court proceedings against Salvatore Vasta ... Poor judicial conduct runs in the blood ... Ancient cases examined during trial of the FCFC judge for abuse of process ... Max Shanahan reports on the hearing 

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Friday
Dec172021

The Bigots' Bill

Religious Discrimination Bill ... The entire history of discrimination law and rights ... Context included ... Unintended and intended consequences ... Equality and liberty ... The shield and the sword ... Race and religion ... Bogging down the courts ... Conceptually incoherent legislation ... External affairs power ... Alan Zheng's significant report 

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Wednesday
Dec152021

A few rights short of the common law

Buckley gets a chance ... Law Society required to cough-up more documents in disciplinary case ... Extra material would not be too much of a distraction for NCAT ... Challenge to public health orders by anti-vaxxers thrown out by NSW judges ... Arguments "blunt and unnuanced" ... Crowdfunded litigation and a lawyer's fiduciary duties ... Alan Zheng reports

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Thursday
Dec092021

Charging towards total victory

Employment lawyer loses latest round in employment case ... Lengthy struggle ... Nor much resolved ... No deceit by Norton Rose ... Self-serving puffery ... Big law firm not deceitful ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Dec082021

Women rule

Gender quotas ... Solicitors elect NSW Law Society Council with an 82% female majority ... Retired judge wants more litigation to bring the ABC to heel ... Questionable evidence to parliamentary committee on litigation funding ... Premier has confidence in conflicted AG after no confidence motion ... Time stretched allows for extra careful detailed review of evidence in a copyright case ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Nov302021

Temby's Tales

The arc of life ... A memoir from the former inaugural Commonwealth DPP ... The foundation ICAC commissioner ... Momentous decisions ... Searing fallouts ... C.N. Brown reviews With Conviction 

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Monday
Nov292021

Gorgeous George comes to town

Letter from the Dreaming Spires ... High Commissioner to the UK speaks at the Union ... A sprinkling of rapt Young Tories ... Car alarm competing for attention ... Jolly John Kerr told him Betty Windsor was in the clear ... Later rooftop revelries ... Barely Legal reports 

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