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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"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." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

 

Saturday
Jul252020

A beastly time

Collapse of the world order ... Yet, the annual round of law firm clerkship applications proceeds unabated ... Zoomathons without tasty sandwiches ... The pitches ... The critical questions ... The psychometric tests ... The online interviews ... Barely Legal jumps through hoops to land a poorly paid plum job 

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Tuesday
Jul212020

The great and the not-so-good

The Kerrs ... Lady Peggy ... Lady Anne ... Fancy Nancy ... Lady Macbeth ... Margaret Whitlam ... The Robsons "Reno-ed" in private ... Dyse thunders about the decline in "mutual respect" ... Overblown moralising ... Procrustes on hypocrisy and the governing class 

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Tuesday
Jul212020

Litigations in Queanbeyan

Kerr's correspondence with the Palace on the Loans Affair prosecution ... Shifting claims of Crown privilege ... Resignation of attorney general Ellicott ... The GG away at the opera when the executive council agreed to raise $4 billion in petrodollars ... The Queen didn't much like Alan Reid's unbalanced opinions ... Send me another book, please ... Kerr's views on Neville Wran ... Stephen Murray delves into remote corners of the Palace Letters 

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Saturday
Jul182020

Missing the mark

Apple Isle confusion over pleadings in a negligence claim ... The potting machine out of action after a power surge ... Poles and wires ... How much pleading is necessary? ... Only the facts, not the legal arguments ... The Judicature Act ... The common law in play ... The Map ... Janek Drevikovsky reveals all  

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Friday
Jul172020

Could your honour pardon me one moment?

MH17 class action ... Plane shot down over Ukraine ... Non-resident cannot sue under Montreal Convention ... Family should not have been barred from the proceedings ... Failure to inform ... Insouciance ... Conduct of lawyers fell "well short" of their obligations ... Show cause why the lawyers should not pay the appellants' costs ... Mea Culpa ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Jul172020

Faster than a speeding snail

Bottled Law ... Students and tech whizzes design life in the law of tomorrow ... NewLaw versus BigLaw ... Arming and training young lawyers with tech skills ... Removing the slog and having a better life ... From our tech rounds-person, Wallace Cloud 

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Wednesday
Jul152020

A gangster in the White House

SCOTUS rules on Electoral College voting ... Sexual identity and civil rights ... Native-American reservations ... Dreamers ... Presidential tax records ... The power of theocrats and churches ... Some helpful rulings, others less so ... Justice Department habitually supporting Trump's personal battles in court ... Curious belief that a mentally unfit president could be reelected ... Maybe it is possible ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Wednesday
Jul152020

Crisis in clubland

Yarraside furore ... Essoign Club clinging on in stressful times ... Bar Council not booking enough functions ... Uncertain future ... Rent ructions ... Frosty relations ... Facilitated discussions ... Last bastion of the rear guard ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Jul102020

Sore and sorry Salvatore

Latest from Circus Side ... Sal Vasta's written judgment recast from the original oral version ... Threat of imprisonment hits the cutting room floor ... Family Court appeal judges regret having to admonish the Circus judge ... Sigh ... Another burdensome remitted hearing ... Janek Drevikovsky reports  

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