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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 >> 

 

 

 

Tuesday
Nov032020

Leverhulme in lockdown

• DateTuesday, November 3, 2020

The legacy of womanising prime ministers ... Leverhulme seeks to put Boris in context, while others rage ... A new work explains the damage wrought by the PM's feckless father ... The void within ... Disease, death and lockdown ... Lord Sumption on his libertarian soapbox 

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Friday
Oct302020

Drama at the Sandgropers' grill

, • DateFriday, October 30, 2020

New procedures to deal with groping grievances ... Outcry at the WA bar over the president's ham-fisted message on sexual harassment ... Female barristers incandescent ... CJ drawn into the fracas ... History of sex-pest judges in Perth ... Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations ... Grievance stewards ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Oct292020

Behind the scenes at the selection cabal

• DateThursday, October 29, 2020

High Court appointments ... Endorsements and disappointments ... What now for the Last Chance Saloon? ... Justices Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson ... Background to selections ... Politics and the process ... Where's the excellence? ... Knock on Wood ... Beach beached ... Associate of judges, Ginger Snatch, reports 

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Tuesday
Oct272020

The Trial of the Chicago 7

, • DateTuesday, October 27, 2020

Brutal America ... March 1969 and the trial of seven anti-war protesters ... Yippees ... Chicago police riot ... Biased and incompetent judge ... Contempt in all its many guises ... Miss Lumière reviews Aaron Sorkin's take on a stormy, shambolic trial

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Monday
Oct262020

Bubble, bubble

• DateMonday, October 26, 2020

Sandgropers and the value of Aboriginal heritage ... Jane Halton and directors' duties overboard ... Fallen Crown ... Bursting the Trans-Tasman Travel Bubble ... Contenders for vacancies at the Last Chance Saloon ... Procrustes on the current state of governance 

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Sunday
Oct252020

The strange case of Julian Assange

• DateSunday, October 25, 2020

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

• DateTuesday, October 20, 2020

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

• DateFriday, October 16, 2020

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

, • DateFriday, October 9, 2020

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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