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      Brittany Higgins appeals Justice Tottle's defamation findings ... Hold on Reynolds' bankruptcy manoeuvres
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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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      Pam Bondi ... Trump's fixer ... Law bender ... And Attorney General
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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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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 >> 

 

 

 

Wednesday
Oct062021

Warning - Danger Ahead

, • DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

NSW goes back to the future ... Cabinet shuffle looming ... Anti-corruption firebrand chafing in the nether region ... Judicial recognition of the Taliban ... New eftpos machine arrives in Hobart ... Angelo Vasta RIP ... Rule of law hysterics about ICAC ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep302021

Everyone's revolting

• DateThursday, September 30, 2021

Leverhulme on bloody activists ... Motorway blockages ... Labour conference at Brighton ... Lord Brown has  Second Helpings ... Barry Humphries' book of revenge ... Soaring gas prices, petrol shortages ... Turner Art Prize goes dark and mumbly ... London Calling 

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Monday
Sep272021

Police causing death in "good faith"

• DateMonday, September 27, 2021

NT policeman charged with murder of Indigenous man ... High Court to hear special leave and appeal together ... Core functions of police force ... Protection for civil or criminal acts committed by police ... How far does police protection run? ... "Unjustified" trial delay ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Sunday
Sep262021

I Once Met ... Margaret Thatcher

• DateSunday, September 26, 2021

David Bennett QC had an encounter at the House of Lords ... Former PM Margaret Thatcher on the supremacy of parliament ... Frosty view on Australian constitutional checks and balances 

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Sunday
Sep262021

Stuck in the mud

• DateSunday, September 26, 2021

Shocking case of protracted lying to a client ... Tasmanian misconduct ... Unconscionable delays ... Failure to commence workers compensation proceedings for five years ... Elaborate pretence ... Desperation ... Other troubles ... Farewell to the jam roll 

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Wednesday
Sep222021

I Once Met ... Paul Keating

• DateWednesday, September 22, 2021

Prime Minister Keating arrives at a Labor Party fundraiser in Darwin where he meets a star-struck Buffalo Bruce ... 1994, a time of harsh CLP criminal justice laws ... Native Title Act and the reconciliation movement also at work ... Synchronistic forces at play 

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Wednesday
Sep222021

Lessons learned, but no SIGAR

• DateWednesday, September 22, 2021

Report by Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction extracted by FOI ... Truth about the prospect of victory withheld ... Misleading accounts retailed to the public ... Consequences for refugee applicants ... Onwards to Tasmania and the good boat Four Winds ... Appeal misadventure in the Neil-Fraser case ... Second appeal falters ... Awaiting judgment ... Procrustes files from the ramparts  

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Thursday
Sep162021

I Once Met ... Lionel Murphy 

• DateThursday, September 16, 2021

The editor meets Lionel Murphy for the first time ... But not the only time ... Unfolding the Whitlam government's agenda in the senate leader's office ... New wallpaper ... An unexpected interruption ... Interview with cub reporter 

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Thursday
Sep162021

Trust me - I'm blind

• DateThursday, September 16, 2021

An abundance of caution ... Porter sunk and lost on the "fit and proper" standard ... The politician who shot himself in both knees ... End is nigh ... Previous explanations full of holes ... More about the trust 

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