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      Corruption investigation launched into the Cossack and his relationship with the Planet
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      Grace Tame Foundation ... Half the donations paid out in legal fees to Marque Lawyers, whose managing partner sits on the foundation's board ... A matter of non-disclosure
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      US law firms in London splashing obscene amounts of money on new hires
    • Federal Court of Australia
      Justice Lee on costs in Lehrmann v Network Ten ... "There are no real winners in this litigation" ...
    • Financial Times
      Lunch with Stephen Breyer ... Pragmatism and textualism at the US Supreme Court ... The disaster of overturning Roe v Wade
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Dark and Stormy times in the US of A ... The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington ... Read more ... 

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Maintaining legal actions ... Maintenance and champerty ... The Lehrmann mess ... From Geoffrey Gibson, Melbourne barrister (retd.) ... More >> 

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Letter from London ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees ... Read more ... 

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Spokesman for Kerry Stokes explaining the reason for doubling the price of printing the Financial Review on Seven West presses in Perth ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Did Justice Lee get it wrong? ... More on the omnishambles ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points ... Read more ... 

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Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more ... 

 

 

Wednesday
Mar272024

Happy ending?

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Thai massages ... Brittany Higgins private communications ... NACC looks at leaks to media hacks ... Contempt of court ... Hitting on Leon Zwier ... Vendetta ... New pastures for Whybrow ... The Federal Court and the defamation racket ... From our Chief City Correspondent 

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Sunday
Mar242024

It's customary

• DateSunday, March 24, 2024

Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files 

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Friday
Mar222024

Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

• DateFriday, March 22, 2024

Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Friday
Mar152024

Slumbering snails

• DateFriday, March 15, 2024

Judges and their delays ... Agonising cogitations ... Trials derailed ... Start again ... Dreamers awake ... Award time for the coveted Golden Snail 

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Wednesday
Mar132024

Solicitor's swan song sounds in contempt

• DateWednesday, March 13, 2024

Trading without a ticket ... Manager appointed ... Obstruction and hinderance ... "Medical issues" ... Contempt ... One month's prison - suspended ... Not sorry ... Anthony-James Kanaan reporting 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

University turns tail on Drumgold

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

University of Canberra wilts in the heat ... Drumgold's academic appointment cancelled ... Unrelenting and biased media attacks ... Lily-livered university administrators ... From the newsletter 500 Words, or thereabouts 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

Yarraside - fresh agitation

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

Skirmish over how to spend $600,000 of barristers' money sitting in Victorian CJ's piggybank ... Tightwads are opposed to the Owen Dixon Memorial Childcare Centre ... Alarming problem if nippers are located where criminals are visiting their briefs ... Woke Wars ... Peach Melba reports 

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Monday
Mar112024

Sofronoff scuppered

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland 

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Monday
Mar112024

Dangerous concoctions

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

Fabricated cases cited to show instances where MinterEllison lawyers had been restrained from appearing ... AI possibly responsible ... Litigant fails in bid to block Minters and counsel from acting in long-running employment law battle ... Embellished misconduct claims ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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