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Ann Cunningham, commissioning editor of The Federation Press, has assembled a list of this year's best and least loved books, chosen by a hand selected pool of legally inclined people ... Plenty of ideas and inspiration
Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle ... 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 ... Read more ...
Pastoral care ... The money issue … Tiddlywinks young man … Private school goes public – courtesy of the ABC … Cranbrook’s latest expulsions … The Billionaires’ Bible … Fairy dust for unrest in Gaza … Ruth Bader Ginsburg spinning in her crypt … Fresh interpretations for the rule of law ... Read on ...
It's customary ... 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 ... Read more ...
Gageler CJ cuts the ribbon ... Austlii embarks on massive High Court digitisation ... Early unreported judgments ... Transcripts ... Submissions ... Motions ... The works ... Plus 37 seminal High Court cases ... Eight available in the first tranch ... More >>
Letter from London ... Brits obsession with the Royals ... Staffers in the frame for attempted theft of Princess Kate's medical records ... Bitcoin liberated from false claims by Satoshi Nakamoto ... Struck off for inflated time records ... Rwanda - plain sailing ahead ... From our correspondent in Blighty, Floyd Alexander-Hunt ... Read more ...
"Dr Emma J. Jones from the University of Sheffield in the UK was pleased to see that the dialogue had moved on from ways to ensure lawyers survived amidst problems with wellbeing. She noted that the focus had gone beyond that - to being about thriving and flourishing."
Message to the legal profession from the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner Fiona McLeay, following a Wellness for Law Forum, March 21, 2014 ... Read more flatulence ...
Sofronoff scuppered ... 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 ... Read more ...
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 ...
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Ann Cunningham, commissioning editor of The Federation Press, has assembled a list of this year's best and least loved books, chosen by a hand selected pool of legally inclined people ... Plenty of ideas and inspiration
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