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Fishing for the good ones

Justinian — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:18:39 +0000

The trials and tribulations of law school lecturing ... Achievers, plodders and bottom dwellers ... University entry requirements lowered - a boon for bottom-dwellers ... Ten percent take up 25 percent of the time and effort ... Senior law lecturer Dr Criminale takes to his keyboard and blogs

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Nineteenth century man

Justinian — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:42:32 +0000

Dyson Heydon's top 10 books of the nineteenth century … From Memoires d'Outre Tombe to The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian … Dyse's faves from a golden time

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High class racketeering

Justinian — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:37:28 +0000

The personal injury racket ... The no win, no fee racket ... The after-the-event insurance racket ... The unauthorised practice of law racket ... Tulkinghorn examines the meaty bone and its associated lawyer rackets

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Bail out

Justinian — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:05:37 +0000

New South Wales' new bail legislation ... Presumption against bail still there in all but name ... Juveniles get one extra chance to reapply ... In last 30 years the proportion of the prison population on remand has doubled ... Legislation designed to please the police ... Former magistrate Max Taylor reports

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Fish shop phone furore

Justinian — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:54:35 +0000

Barrister and solicitor were parties to secret recording of mobile phone conversation while a trial was in progress ... Impropriety ... Application to tender recording rejected ... Breach of Surveillance Devices Act and Evidence Act ... Alix Piatek reports

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Queue See

Justinian — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:52:51 +0000

Qld gazettes arrangements for converting from senior counsel to queen's counsel ... Marketing ploy in a desperately needy climate ... Melbourne SC still pressing for the queen's counsel option while fighting off attacks on the "imponderables" of selection ... Warning: original notion of the QC had little to do with higher fees

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Legal Aid: pips are squealing

Justinian — Fri, 10 May 2013 06:18:06 +0000

Scoop ... Boning knife taken to NSW Legal Aid ... No money for Local Court trials, unless defendants face the "real possibility" of a gaol sentence ... Letter from director of the criminal law division ... Challenges in "managing the reaction from the bench" ... Massive resources for the coppers produces squeeze lower down the food chain

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US soldiers are special: they can shoot, but they can't be shot

Justinian — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:22:01 +0000

US government has its very own radical Islam website ... Judge overrules some of the FBI's denial of rights to Boston bombing suspect ... Canadian to appeal Guantánamo conviction ... Guilty plea to invalid charges ... Pentagon citing Civil War precedents in Bradley Manning stitch-up ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington

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Retrospective: Te Muna Road Pinot

Justinian — Wed, 08 May 2013 03:20:11 +0000

The frustrations of a pinot drinker ... With so many clones of the pinot vine, performance varies greatly ... "Fickle and troublesome" ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler finds some complex and brooding pinots among Craggy Range's Te Muna Road selection ... Taste-up at Chiswick Gardens

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Hiding under rocks

Justinian — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:20:30 +0000

Qld AG insists there's no rape of teenagers in Pineapple Land jails ... Silk's daily rate for the crown ... Canberra firm fails in early round to squelch picketing client's Mum ... Justice Bromberg's vital statistics

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Where are they now?

Justinian — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:42:11 +0000

The moving and shaking of a Law Society high-flyer … The Armidale connection … The University of New England and living in the shadow of Dickie Torbay

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Clutz blinks

Justinian — Wed, 01 May 2013 02:00:02 +0000

Big law shop drops its insistence on having Allan Myers for the Chris Dale case ... Appeal ditched ... No more mucking around

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Gentlemen, please

Justinian — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:35:01 +0000

Touchy war of words between the upper and lower stratas of the federal judiciary ... Raphael v Perram; Perram v Raphael ... It’s a matter of tone ... Alix Piatek reports

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The $1 billion judgment

Justinian — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:59:38 +0000

Compo lawyers will be paining the town red ... NSW Court of Appeal wipes out 25 percent of the government's proposed savings from the 2012 workers comp reforms ... Lump sums are back - at the old rate

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Government's bar bill

Justinian — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:25:44 +0000

Crown keeping a tight rein on barrister expenses in NSW ... Funding for the bar virtually unchanged for two-and-a-half years ... Top fee last year for Crown Solicitor's civil work was $1,054,501.25 ... Full list of fees paid ... Another scoop from Justinian

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