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      Hitler's final rise to power ... Germany a democracy that handed power to someone who could never claim a majority in an election and whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown
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"A Legal Braveheart who is a defender of the rule of law. Sofronoff had the courage to expose legal misadventure of the sort that must never be condoned. He deserves the nation's gratitude."

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Tuesday
Mar292022

Roberts-Smith VC and the perils of a truth defence

• DateTuesday, March 29, 2022

VC winner's defamation case not going well, at this stage ... Allegations of bullying, intimidation and murder ... Astronomical costs ... Kerry Stokes holds the purse strings ... Lessons from the libel cases of John Marsden and Oscar Wilde ... Artemus Jones comments

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Wednesday
Mar232022

Cancelling Dicey

• DateWednesday, March 23, 2022

Order of the Gilded Wombat ... Hands on the staff but keep your hands off the gongs ... What about Queen's Counsel? ... Campaign to confiscate honours from sexual offenders ... Comparison with the Einfeld case ... New discrimination and harassment rules for briefs ... Theodora on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar222022

Deadlines drop dead

• DateTuesday, March 22, 2022

Tax turmoil ... Computer problems ... Avoidance disorder ... Chronology of mistimed events ... Clinging to the jam roll ... Client work prioritised ... Distinction between personal and professional competence ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Monday
Mar212022

Danger ahead

• DateMonday, March 21, 2022

Bad news from SCOTUS ... Vaccines, climate and discrimination ... State secrets privilege applied in torture cases ... Partisan courts ... Forum shopping for flexible federal judges ... Political control of the state courts ... From Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Monday
Mar212022

A case of who you know

• DateMonday, March 21, 2022

Tom-toms from Brisbane's Bugle ... A story without context ... "ALP buddies on the bench" ... Mix-master on top speed ... The other side of politics even more culpable ... Merit and the Old Mates Act 

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Thursday
Mar172022

The ethnography of law school electives

• DateThursday, March 17, 2022

The subjects they choose ... Divining the character and culture of law students ... What becomes of them? ... Corporations and tax ... Labour law ... Sports law ... Antonin Scalia law ... Human rights .. Equity ... Philosophy ... The different choices are defining ... Barely Legal reports 

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Sunday
Mar132022

Матушка Россия 

• DateSunday, March 13, 2022

The Russian judiciary ... How the Kremlin tamed the judges ... Rule of the state is the same as the rule of law ... Artful selection of the "right" people ... The Kremlin always wins ...  Londongrad and rivers of looted rubles 

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Thursday
Mar102022

Executive overboard

• DateThursday, March 10, 2022

Another top flight management executive leaves the AAT ... Staff attrition ... Morale and harmony unravelled by political picks ... Review of selection process ... Accountability ... Polly Peck reports 

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Tuesday
Mar082022

Damp spirits

• DateTuesday, March 8, 2022

Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal 

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