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Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank ... Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... Read more ...

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Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ... 

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No more KCs for South Australia ... Legislation passed the Legislative Council and on its way to the Assembly ... "Socialist" CJ to blame ... Fury and tears  ... 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 ... 

"It was a commercial decision ... To suggest anything else would be inaccurate and disingenuous." 

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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Justinian Featurettes

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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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 ... 


 

 

Monday
Aug092021

Winter Wonderland

Life in lockdown proving perilous for parties in Willy Alstergren's speedy callover regime for the Family and Circuit Courts ... Callovers for cases already resolved or in their final stages ... Pandemonium 

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Sunday
Aug082021

Shrill senator in meltdown over Burnside blitzkrieg

UPDATE ... WA bar president pens feisty free-speech letter to preposterous backbench noise machine ... Demands that silk be stripped of gongs ... Loose thinking ... WA bar reaches out in support of the right to express offensive views ... Groper reports 

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Sunday
Aug082021

Redaction report - latest

What's going on? ... Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side ... Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues ... Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues ... Doom beckons if identity is revealed ... Hanging by a threat ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Aug062021

Letter from Blighty

Anti-woke "ice-breakers" land solicitor in the freezer ... Postman's trespassing fingers and liability for a Boxer bite ... Snicker munching Syrian cooks up a storm in London ... Leverhulme reports 

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Thursday
Aug052021

Put and call

Expensive family law shop divorce ... Negligent advice to stroke partner unable to work ... Incomplete advice ... NSW CA shaves nearly half-a-million from Rothman J's award of damages ... Commercial law firm still up for about $1 million in damages ... Misery ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Aug052021

Hal Wootten

Obituary for Hal Wootten AC QC ... 1922-2021 ... Barrister - Law dean - Judge - Law reform commissioner - Royal commissioner - Press Council chairman - Environmentalist ... Indigenous rights and protections ... The cause of Palestinians ... Lawyer with a wide reach  

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Monday
Aug022021

In the Lee of the spoken word

Don't bring your affidavits to Justice Lee ... Federal Court judge delivers a bollicking ... In remembrance of Lord Buckmaster ... Witnesses statements by affidavit ... Herbert Smith Freehills in the frame ... Inauthentic accounts of evidence ... Leaky wells ... Legal drafting supplants "real words" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Sunday
Aug012021

Uncivil disobedience

Window into a weird world ... Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers ... Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information ... Harassment ... Media lawyers at 10 paces ... Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks ... Crowdfunding for High Court challenge ... Whether funds held in trust ... Alan Zheng reporting 

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Saturday
Jul312021

Clerkship chaos

Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line 

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