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Back in the ring ... Rape on the minister’s couch … Cover-up … Of course, there was a cover-up … Bettina Arndt and the Institute for the Presumption of Bruce Lehrmann’s Innocence … Linda Reynolds needs sympathy and money … Justice Lee’s loose crumbs ... Read on ... 

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Plus ça change ... Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files ... Read more ... 

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Celebrations at the Lubyanka ... NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges ... Read more ... 

"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."

Rule of Law Institute plugging a forthcoming lecture by Walter Sofronoff with a quote from an editorial in The Australian. April 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


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Algorithmic injustices ... Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice ... Read more ... 


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Hoot ... Hoot ... No win, lots of fees – remembering Copper 7 … Conflicts and compromises ... Law and Social Work get cognate at U.Syd … Judge Felicity – feisty telly star … Wendler’s marmalade – by appointment ... From Justinian's Archive, July 30, 2010 ... Read more ... 


 

 

Wednesday
Sep012021

Dispatches from Kabul

Fear and uncertainty confront the Afghani legal profession ... Lawyers, law and chaos ... Kabul lawyer says his practice has been "suspended" ... Women judges ... Destruction of legal research work at the university ... Return of a Sharia legal system ... Lawyers and judges in flight 

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Wednesday
Sep012021

Send in the clowns

Curtains up for new court ... FCFCOA is now upon us ... A camel designed by Bookshelves Brandis ... What can go wrong? ... Two Wigs Willy down to one wig ... Limited input from lawyers in development of blockbuster rules and directions ... New titles ... New registrars ... A family lawyer writes 

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Monday
Aug302021

An appetite for malice

A primer on the rise and rise of actions for malicious prosecution - particularly in NSW ... Claimants taking on the state and AVO applicants ... Cases and causes ... What is this tort actually doing? ... Disgruntlement going nowhere ... Anna Kretowicz on the case 

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Friday
Aug272021

I Once Met ... Bob Hawke

Introducing I Once Met ... Readers' recollections about their encounters with the great, the good and the not-so-good ... First in a series ... Leverhulme has a brusque introduction to Bob Hawke in 1989 

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Friday
Aug272021

Old Bufferdom

Kipling on the British retreat from Afghanistan ... Jezails and tulwars win the day ... Lessons of history ... Premature Old Buffers in Oz - Canavan and Sheldon cross swords with the Wiggles ... Doc Evatt before his time ... The Chester case ... Seeing off Frederick Jordan ... Menzies - an artistic philistine ... Procrustes files 

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Tuesday
Aug242021

Who wants silk?

Scoop ... NSW's 2021 list of senior counsel hopefuls ... Annual festival plays out against wreckage wrought by the plague ... Despair - Depression - And everything in-between ... Exclusive ... Data and details 

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Monday
Aug232021

Stewardship of the revenue realm

High Court's tax guru overturned by the High Court ... The final word on tax intricacies ... Interests of justice and disclosure of assets ... Running balance accounts and curly questions ... Government looking for "reliability" 

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Sunday
Aug222021

Quash denied

Complaint about a lawyer's delays, fees and cost agreements ... Bureau de Spank finds complaint not entirely outside statutory limitation ... Tas CJ throws out judicial review ... Absurd situation ... Anonymity ... No contempt ... The Map ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Aug202021

The "academy" under assault

Book worm review by Anna Kretowicz... Who Gets to be Smart ... A broken education system propping-up the old world order ... The "truth" behind Rhodes and his scholars ... Production mill for elites ... Confusion and insecurities abound 

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