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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>

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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 >> 


 

 

 

Thursday
Dec192024

Scratching fleas

Multiple references from their Highnesses didn't cut the mustard for silk applicant ... Behind the scenes with the selectors ... AAT visa decision scuttled because delegate's reasons were scissor and pasted ...  Looking for a new ICAC CEO ... Basement rendezvous at the Lubyanka ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Dec192024

Costly cockatiels

Perth's eponymous law shop's fat fees shaved ... Animal rights defamation case ... Nothing missing in tax returns from defendant's OnlyFans earnings ... Misuse of absolute privilege ... Sandy Groper reports 

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Friday
Dec132024

Scenes from The Map 

UPDATE ... FRESH NEWS ... New Tasmanian CJ meets strong headwinds ... Gunson withdraws ... Selection protocol ignored ... Apple Isle outsider foisted on the court ... Judges furious ... Agenda at play ... Guv'nor to hand out royal baubles to silks ... Trevor Quoll reports 

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Wednesday
Dec112024

Spotlight on McClintock

Former defamation silk takes the podium ... Speech and fielding questions in clubland ... Jabs at enemies ... Why fewer punters are suing ... Cross-examining journalists ... Fun cases ... When not to sue ... From Ginger Snatch at lunch 

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Tuesday
Dec102024

The relevant minister

Attorney General wanted INSLM report to be "clarified" ... Sheeting the blame ... Alleged ambiguity as to which minister was responsible for hiding evidence ... Political sensitivities ... Change of personnel responsible for monitoring national security laws ... Polly Peck reports 

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Friday
Dec062024

Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0

Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct 

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Friday
Nov292024

Bird on the wing

Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP 

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Thursday
Nov282024

Goths at the gate

Trump's narrow victory ... Gangsters, plunderers and incompetents ready to sack Washington ... Trump's narrow victory ... Dross on top ... Roger Fitch on America's kakistocracy 

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Wednesday
Nov272024

The great interceptor

Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments 

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