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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 ... 

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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 ... 

"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 ... 


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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 ... 


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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 ... 


 

 

Sunday
May202018

All in the family

On the cusp of federal courts restructure ... Caustic advice to Thee-Wigs Willy Alstergren on how to run the Family Court's appeal division ... New head of the division has limited family law experience, as does the chief justice ... Recipe for unhappiness ... Rules, requirements and ruminations 

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Tuesday
May152018

The kindness of strangers

Qld CA clean bowls admissions board which got hung-up on graduate's trivial mistakes ... SA Full Court not so kind to solicitor who made false claims for legal aid funds ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Wednesday
May092018

Independence Day

The illusion of "independence" … Hayne royal commission brings new meaning to the word "independent" ... AMP, Clayton Utz, Catherine Brenner and the massaging of an independent report ... Clutz alumni Brian Salter is the fall-guy ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Monday
May072018

Chip off the old Brott

Benched solicitor out of time in defamation action ... Second bite of the defamation cherry with law firm and barrister in the frame ... Nick Bonyhady reports courtside  

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Monday
May072018

Misconduct case over scam and blackmail allegations

Conveyancing fracas and thunderous emails lead to misconduct proceedings ... Gadens' partner complains to VLSC ... Strike-out refused by VCAT ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Sunday
May062018

Dot and the dinosaurs

Barbie - the perfect spectator for carnivore battles ... Hubris and delusion ... How partners' meetings have changed ... Women don't talk like that ... Dorothy, our partner at big law, looks at evolutionary developments 

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Tuesday
May012018

Ahoy. Navigation assistance

Where are we with the ALRC inquiry into family law? ... Issues paper ... Access to justice ... Advocacy and support services ... Therapeutic justice ... Exploration of new modes of service delivery ... Peach Melba on the case 

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Tuesday
May012018

Dr Matt Collins QC

President of Vic's Bar n Grill on Justinian's Couch ... Matt Collins discusses the findings of the State of the Victorian Bar report ... Solicitors eating more of the bar's lunch ... Barristers not overpaid, considering ... Love of Paris, The Beatles, and Australian cinema ... The Hockey case ... Defamation laws unfit for purpose ... An impatient driver of change 

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Friday
Apr272018

The Lady of Shallot

Slipping on a shallot in Woolworths ... Weighing the free speech rights of litigants in person to indulge in threatening correspondence with insurers for defendants ... Courts and tribunals seeing a tide of over-wrought and menacing missives from angry parties ... Judges feeling edgy 

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