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Clutz perfects media management

Justinian — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:19:00 +0000

Nailing down questioning reptiles ... Painful extraction of information about overseas excursions by prez of the NSW Law Society ... Vacancies looming on the Tasmanian Supremes (update) ... The Smage lives to fight another day as $1 billion Indonesian class action thrown out

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Pass the source to Helen Liu

Justinian — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:26:04 +0000

The Age ordered to cough-up journalists sources for Joel Fitzgibbon exposé ... Tidal wave of cases dismantling free speech ... Liu v The Age ranks as one of our most important constitutional free speech cases ... The newspaper must fight on ... Artemus Jones on the junking of the newspaper rule

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Drones are taking over

Justinian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:43:10 +0000

European governments oppose US claim to impose liability for overseas wrongs of foreign corporations ... Legal professional privilege threatened at Gitmo ... Congress wants drones buzzing around US skies ... Is conspiracy a war crime? ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, files this report

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Barbarians at the gates

Justinian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:11:35 +0000

Lawyers Full-Employment Act revs-up as Rinehart rides to town … 11 Wentworth snaffles the Iron Lady's work … Five months of suppression orders secured by rosters of silks and limitless money

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Journalism's dark arts

Justinian — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:12:06 +0000

Phone hacking and intercepts - the early days ... Intercepted phone conversation between Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise ends-up in New Idea ... Australian media's bugging heritage ... (corrected)

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It's February already

Justinian — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:30:51 +0000

Ruthless competition at the readers' bar ... Emptiness and despair ... Funds dry up ... Then, as if by magic, a crumb falls from the table and everything is brilliant ... Junior Junior on how January turned into February

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Weather report from Blighty

Justinian — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:43:59 +0000

Snowball chase on main street ... Free speech a danger for football manager ... Top Totty beer off in Commons' bar ... Knife victim stitched-up over trauma of giving testimony against boyfriend ... Sligo council's bullying monitor ... Leverhulme's London Calling

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Life at the top

Justinian — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:32:55 +0000

Judicial style ... The genteel, pukkah approach of the UK Supreme Court or the Assyrian assaults of the High Court ... At least in Australia you get a sense of where to pitch an argument ... Please welcome Abel Magwitch to Justinian's expanding fold of analysts and commentators

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When you wish upon a Tarr

Justinian — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:11:46 +0000

Tony Tarr's long and bumpy ride through academe and business ... Gravitating from one ivory tower to another ... Bridging the gap between money and scholarship ... From the Queensland Law Society to a global recognition ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports on a remarkable career

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Keddies stuck in the stalls

Justinian — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:42:11 +0000

Judge decides no reasonable person could think he was prejudiced against former Keddies' partners ... Stay also refused ... Contempt hearing against Keddies boys now set for February 16 ... Brigit Morris reporting from the NSW Supremes

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Barristers required to divulge fees for Hong Kong "sittings"

Justinian — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:28:06 +0000

Two Sydney barristers required to reveal their fees in overcharging case against Keddies … Allegations of multiple billing for the same work … Excessive charges and over-servicing

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News from the broom cupboard

Justinian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:19:06 +0000

Shake-out of former Keddies' partners at Slater & Gordon … ACT bar breaches suppression order

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A view from the East

Justinian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:36:09 +0000

In Hong Kong Percy Lo-Kit Chan watches on television the melee outside the Lobby restaurant on Australia Day and reflects on what happened when three students got close to the Vice Premier of the PRC ... Civil discourse also at a low ebb in the HKSAR

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Biography underway for lion of the bar

Justinian — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:28:03 +0000

Tom Hughes to be profiled in detail and at length in new book by Canberra historian ... Keddies still ducking and weaving - application for judge to step aside ... Barristers ordered to reveal their billing in Hong Kong PI cases ... Smallbone boned by bar 'n' grill ... Ashton v Pratt - Madison flirts with an appeal

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Rayney daze in Perth

Justinian — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:23:52 +0000

Pillsbury Flom in Australia for his hols, where he picks up the latest on the Lloyd Rayney case, gives his thoughts about Julia Gillard and her forbearance of radio ranters and her hypocrisy on gay marriage ... Plus, the Viagra patent case

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