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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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Tuesday
Dec082020

No soft balls here

• DateTuesday, December 8, 2020

Important cases from The Dart ... The law of cricket ... Adults using a proper cricket ball ... The defence of illegality ... Guns in court ... Leverhulme's tribute to lord justice of appeal Roy Beldam 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

Those wicked press lords

• DateTuesday, December 8, 2020

Critiquing Bathurst CJ on defamation law ... World view from the plaintiff's corner ... Large corporate media interests trying to set the reform agenda ... Meddling with the common law ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Friday
Dec042020

Close to home

, • DateFriday, December 4, 2020

Rumours scotched that Family Court CJ is shifting chambers to Hobart ... Wild oysters are calling ... Hobart docket ... Sheriff leaves a door open at Nowra Court House - receiving more severe punishment than the escapee ... Top sheriff birched ... Attorney General goes schtum ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Dec022020

Burley Griffin's notebook

• DateWednesday, December 2, 2020

Ohh, that judgment ... ACT Law Society asks, "where are the reasons?" ... Judge scrambles out of retirement to deliver another door-stopper ... Profuse apologies for the loose ends ... Sexual assault by law lecturer means he's not fit and proper ... In London fresh findings about drunken sex and professional misconduct 

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Monday
Nov302020

Back to a brighter yesterday

, • DateMonday, November 30, 2020

Ticket for change sets about scrapping the changes ... Jabots in a tangle at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Email meltdowns ... Burning questions ... No nous for Nous ... Blandification of the bar ... "World class" barristerial biffo ... Peach Melba explains what went down 

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Tuesday
Nov242020

Graduating in the time of Covid

• DateTuesday, November 24, 2020

The exams are complete ... The degree finished ... But where's the riotous fun? ... A modest valedictory event, without dancing ... Graduation ceremony in doubt ... Preparing for a "man's world" with "Women in Law" ... Barely Legal's Anna Kretowicz blogs from Queensland  

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Friday
Nov202020

Time to woke-up

, • DateFriday, November 20, 2020

Mystery of the kiddie court tours ... School students' exposure to dangerous notions ... Trump-loving academic's batty predictions ... Magic Circle's fee spree ... Toast of the town ... Theodora's Goings On 

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