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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >> 

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      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
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      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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      Scathing report on the quality and rigour of PLT training for entrants to the legal profession
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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

• DateTuesday, January 12, 2021
Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports 

Sunday
Jan102021

Madcap election litigation spree

• DateSunday, January 10, 2021

Republican lawyers wreaking damage on the legal profession and rule of law ... President Trump and the violation of federal laws on electoral interference and extortion ... Late impeachment in the wind ... Rioters seeking martyrdom ... Whither the republic? ... Roger Fitch reports from a wounded Washington  

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Tuesday
Jan052021

Slip, slop, slap

• DateTuesday, January 5, 2021

Tasmanian brief and the "ethnically" charged threat to international students ... Threat withdrawn ... Multiple texts at strange hours demanding payment of $650 ... You can't take Ipswich out of the man ... 5G conspiracies ... The former MP's "distinguished" political career saved his bacon ... Unprofessional conduct ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Dec242020

Law actually

• DateThursday, December 24, 2020

COVID fallout ... Step-by-step ... State-by-state ... Anna Kretowicz takes us through a year of gyrations, fashions and fear of missing out ... Pork pies from the pizza shop ... Scotty's moment in the sun ... Lockdowns ... Goodbye section 92 ... 'Straya, we love you 

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Wednesday
Dec232020

Close to you

• DateWednesday, December 23, 2020

Border commissar Mark McGowan ... The politics of WA's secessionist fantasies ... Section 92 in play ... Waiting for Palmer ... Conservative ideas to tame the ABC ... In the car with the Carpenters ... Procrustes tunes into dead white males

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Not him too ...

, • DateTuesday, December 15, 2020

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape in New York's Sofitel ... Victim monstered by lawyers ... Elaborate conspiracy theories ... The same old story ... Director General of the IMF blows-up a beautiful political future ... Miss Lumière on a peculiar French penchant 

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Tale of two cities

• DateTuesday, December 15, 2020

Nicola Gobbo and the wreckage in her wake ... Corruption of the criminal justice system not confined to Victoria ... Tom Kelly traces the recent history of graft and corruption that flowered in New South Wales ... Police, lawyers and crims in cahoots ... Evolutionary differences - Sydney and Melbourne ... Different categories of criminal defence lawyers ... The role of public lawyers in NSW 

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Monday
Dec142020

Clochemerle-sur-Torrens

• DateMonday, December 14, 2020

South Australia magistrate locked-up after doing an Einfeld ... Briefs told by SA bar president to keep quiet ... Speaking out on sexual harassment and other unpleasantness found to be unprofessional ... Appeal in the wings ... Curtain rises on a new court of appeal 

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Friday
Dec112020

Last days of Nero

• DateFriday, December 11, 2020

Pardon me ... Trump's Dolchstosslegende ... Republicans' strong electoral showing down ballot ... Tejano vote ... Victory for Koch candidates ... Census case in Supreme Court ... The wreckage continues ... Oil leases in Alaska ... Last minute federal executions ... Roger Fitch, our man in Washington, reports 

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