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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Bradley John Murdoch RIP ... Much more than the headlines ... Devoted family man ... Respected prisoner ... Great in the kitchen ... Generous and gentle ... Plus, the three missing KCs ... Former Law Institute President Christopher Dale issues a statement on behalf of the family ... More >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

"What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI."

Charlie Kirk, American conservative and conspiracy theorist on the Texas floods ... The Charlie Kirk Show, July 9, 2025  Read more flatulence ... 

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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Sep152017

Hearing aid goes deaf

• DateFriday, September 15, 2017

Experienced solicitor caught in hearing aid diddle ... Professional misconduct ... Falsifying workers compensation claim ... Concealing prior claim history ... Solicitor's actions driven by professional embarrassment or self-interest … Reporter Luan Whitworth at NCAT 

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Thursday
Sep142017

Northern Ireland, Australia's socially nervous cousin

• DateThursday, September 14, 2017

Leverhulme catches-up with Belfast lawyer Ciaran Moynagh ... Fighting the fight for minorities in Northern Ireland ... On the front line of the struggle for marriage equality ... Echoes of Australia 

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Monday
Sep112017

The Statue Wars - still life in action

• DateMonday, September 11, 2017

The Kirbster on body language and cultural norms ... Uncomprehending cultures ... Josh Frydenberg to the rescue ... Yagan's head and s.18C ... Procrustes on the ramparts 

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Sunday
Sep102017

Being 'un-Australian'

• DateSunday, September 10, 2017

Refugee Advice and Casework Service ... Setbacks, survival, evolution ... Legal work for refugees in a shifting policy environment ... Handling Peter Dutton's deadline ... Senior RACS lawyer Alison Ryan talks to Subeta Vimalarajah 

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Friday
Sep082017

The costly business of unitemised billing

• DateFriday, September 8, 2017

PI law shop's repeated failure to produce itemised bills ... The fine print is too fine ... Over briefing senior counsel ... Strange ruling from Legal Services Commissioner on junior counsel's fees ... Madeline White follows the action 

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Thursday
Sep072017

Viceworld

• DateThursday, September 7, 2017

Law Society of NSW ... Junior VP voted off the executive ... Desperate fight from marginal Catholic and evangelical lawyers to preserve marriage inequality ... Where to now with threats of an EGM and "legal action" against the law society? ... Civil and political rights in contention 

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Wednesday
Sep062017

Up for grabs

• DateWednesday, September 6, 2017

Crown appeals acquittal in sexual assault case ... Intoxication ... Consent ... NSW Court of Criminal Appeal ... Sophie Taylor courtside 

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Monday
Sep042017

High Court walks down the aisle on postal appropriation

• DateMonday, September 4, 2017

The High Court hearings on the same-sex marriage postal survey ... The subjective state of Mathias Cormann's mind comes under the microscope ... Whether the advance to the finance minister was "urgent" and "unforeseen" ... School Chaplains' case ... Plaintiffs' and Commonwealth's arguments ... Curtain raiser from Scott Young 

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Friday
Sep012017

Ms Wright versus The Zealots

• DateFriday, September 1, 2017

The councils of the Law Society and the NSW Bar are caught up in a backlash from a vocal fringe that wants them to abandon their support for same-sex marriage ... The usual suspects ... Where do these self-appointed guardians of virtue get off? 

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