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"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." 

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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
Mar312021

A passionate Scot

• DateWednesday, March 31, 2021

Top End capers ... NT judge says she was defamed by silk in an article in which she wasn't named ... Article said to be indefensible ... Judge threatens to take it further ... History of bad blood ... Journalist complains about ripe language from barrister ... Another first ... Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin 

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Tuesday
Mar302021

Scratching for $110

, • DateTuesday, March 30, 2021

Showdown at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Yarraside bar's crablike crawl away from Law Council divorce ... Rethinking the options ... A large group of concerned barristers circulate objections to executive decision ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Mar292021

Border lockdown for unticketed brief

• DateMonday, March 29, 2021

Unlicensed in Sydney ... Brief expunged from the jam roll while licensed in Victoria and Queensland ... Trying to get around bar exams failures ... Main place of business was NSW ... Tottering raft of constitutional arguments ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Mar292021

Letter from Blighty

• DateMonday, March 29, 2021

Tories meddling with the wheels of justice ... Johnson government wants to bring the Supreme Court to heel ... Too much "judicial activism" ... Clamping down on judicial reviews of administrative decisions ... Increased statutory senility ... Lord Chancellor has strange thoughts about linchpins ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Mar232021

Free the people from their chains

• DateTuesday, March 23, 2021

Concerned lawyers in support of Craig Kelly and hydroxychloroquine ... Lockdown class action in the pipeline, somewhere ... Bill of Rights (1688) where are you? ... False medical advice ... State of non-emergency and other disturbances ... Burn your masks 

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Monday
Mar222021

Porter dives in

• DateMonday, March 22, 2021

Porter v ABC and Louise Milligan ... Applicant's pleadings are a mess and will need considerable work to make the grade ... Complexities on identification ... Upper case imputations do not arise ... Truth the primary defence ... Maybe QP as well ... Difficulties for the ABC ... Surprise counsel selection ... Artemus Jones reads the tea leaves 

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Sunday
Mar212021

Law Council decapitated

• DateSunday, March 21, 2021

Yarraside's "anti-woke" uprising ... Blandification of Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Difficulty stumping-up $110 per brief to fund lawyers' voice to the nation ... "Complicated issue" ... More responses to come ... Outcry over push to return to court ... Peach Melba reports 

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Friday
Mar192021

Newes from Scotland - A Fishy Tail

• DateFriday, March 19, 2021

Salmond and Sturgeon thrashing around in hot water ... Sex scandal catches former and current First Ministers on the hook ... Judicial review ... Criminal trial ... Parliamentary review on how harassment complaints were handled ... Skewering political adversaries ... Procrustes gives us three lessons 

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Thursday
Mar182021

Out of the Blue

• DateThursday, March 18, 2021

Victorian Supreme Court judge's silken advice in a property dispute was negligent ... Damages of $1.185 million to be shared with law shop ... Inadequate information to support advice ... Hopefully, insurers will save the judge's bacon ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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