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Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ... 

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    • Supreme Court of Western Australia
      Nine new senior counsel appointed in WA
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      Rebecca Solnit ... The US election outcome ... "Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do"
    • Robert Beech-Jones
      High Court judge on lawyers who stood in the path of tyrants ... A grim speech for grim times
    • Judicial Commission of NSW
      Complaint by NSW DPP about the conduct of Judge Peter Whitford DCJ ... Findings by the NSW Judicial Commission in full ... Falling short of the standards required of a judicial officer
    • NACC Inspector's Report
      Report into failure of procedural fairness and natural justice by MACC commissioner Paul Brereton ... Apprehension. of partiality

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Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >> 

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The government wants to publish the secret chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission ... If someone who is yet to be appointed gives permission ... More >>

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London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Mistakes of law or fact are a professional inevitability for judges, tribunal members and administrative decision makers."  

Paul Brereton, Commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission, downplaying the Inspector's finding of bias and procedural unfairness with his conflicted involvement in the decision making about Robodebt referrals ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Monday
May252020

Janek goes gonzo

• DateMonday, May 25, 2020

What has been the fate of open justice during a time of closed courts? ... Remote access for reporters ... Technical issues ... Costumes and clothes ... Freezing video links ... Wrong names ... Twiddling of thumbs ... Smooth operators at the Fed ... Nail bars, beauty salons and courts slowly open their doors, yet e-justice is here to stay ... Janek Drevikovsky explores 

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