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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

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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 ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 


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The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Sunday
Oct252020

The strange case of Julian Assange

Pressing questions ... Is Assange a journalist, a publisher, a combatant in information warfare, a tool of Russia? ... Do journalistic standards apply? ... Does it matter? ... The superseding indictment ... The Espionage Act and the First Amendment ... Lacunae in the law ... Janek Drevikovsky explains 

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Tuesday
Oct202020

Deconstructing the form guide for High Court contenders

Names on lists ... Jonathan Beach, Jayne Jagot and Janine Pritchard ... Speculative scribblings ... Cabinet contemplations underway ... Opinions aplenty from the commentariat ... The sound of axes grinding from within the law caper ... Appointments imminent 

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Friday
Oct162020

Shutdown at the bauble factory

UPDATE ... New Yarraside QCs on hold ... Plague stifles letters patent ... In South Australia, legislation passes to permit new branding ... Fluffier status ... The great hurtle backwards 

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Friday
Oct092020

The Comey Rule

Streaming now ... Based on the former FBI director's book ... An insight into America's trauma ... A president hell-bent on suborning the bureau to his will ... A mafioso in the White House ... Hillary's emails and the 2016 election ... The Russia investigation ... Everyone is compromised ... Miss Lumière dips her toe into the swamp 

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Thursday
Oct082020

Unjust, slow and expensive

Law Society of NSW lashed by Court of Appeal ... Failure to ensure just, quick and cheap litigation ... Another jurisdictional calamity ... Earlier decision not brought to the attention of NCAT ... Requirement for model litigant ... Application for suppression order rejected ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Oct062020

Trumplandia

The Reichstag is burning ... Delegitimising an election ... Covid-ridden presidential candidate ... Trump's debts pose security problems ... Stacking the Supreme Court ... An unhinged assault on the Affordable Care Act ... Judicial showdown looms ... Latest report from Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Friday
Oct022020

Masterful Sanderson

Requiem for a company ...  Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full 

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Thursday
Oct012020

Glue sticks

Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, et al, eat their words as they scramble to replace RBG ... Voters cast aside ... Ungluing the institutions of government ... Border wars in Oz and the meaning of s.92 ... Law making by ministerial fiat ... Old buffers come to the party ... Procrustes opines 

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Monday
Sep282020

Silken wannabes

At last ... The steel box at the bottom of the sea has been burst open and the names of the 2020 NSW silk applicants have floated to the surface, where they bob around waiting for the sharks ... Here they are ... Old favourites aplenty ... Bar's difficulty with transparency ... Silk purse ... Sow's ear 

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