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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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Saturday
Jul152017

New game of thrones

• DateSaturday, July 15, 2017

Allens says the NSW Law Society is on firm ground in moving to dump a member of its executive ... Demand for procedural fairness ... Motion to sack on hold until injunction resolved 

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Tuesday
Jul112017

Open and shut justice

• DateTuesday, July 11, 2017

Keeping the profession in good repute by covering-up the names of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings ... SA judge goes through the balancing act of deciding what's best - redaction or open justice ... Redaction wins 

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Tuesday
Jul112017

Costs immunity for court's little helper

• DateTuesday, July 11, 2017

Prez of the Qld CA explains the history of barristers, their admissions, the role of the court in the functions of the profession ... From pleaders, narrators, attorneys, benchers, serjeants-at-law, inns of court ... 800 years compressed into a blistering 46 paragraphs ... It's all about an application for costs ... Subeta Vimalarajah reporting 

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Monday
Jul102017

Shopping centre drug wars

• DateMonday, July 10, 2017

Shopping centre stoush over location of chemist shops ... Federal Court judge critical of dodgy plan to weave around the labyrinthine rules that apply to the location of pharmacies ... False and misleading information drafted by solicitor ... Peta Leigh reports 

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Monday
Jul102017

Competitive advantage is an illusion

• DateMonday, July 10, 2017

Barely Legal asks: why the resistance to typing exams on a computer? ... Student objections ... Fear of change ... Handwriting is better for the brain ... ExamSoft to the fore 

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Saturday
Jul082017

Soapy-at-large

• DateSaturday, July 8, 2017

Brandis with a pint near special spa establishment ... Serious crime prevention not so serious ... Tasmania looking for "layers" to serve on the Supremes ... Charles Waterstreet's celebrity press conference mysteriously cancelled ... Judicial misbehaviour ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Tuesday
Jul042017

The band that almost lost its disparagement

DateTuesday, July 4, 2017

In the era of disparagement, an "offensive" trademark gets a tick from SCOTUS ... Culture wars and the First Amendment ... KUNT ™ still too scandalous to register in Australia ... Subeta Vimalarajah on The Slant and "victims" reclaiming denigration 

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Tuesday
Jul042017

Who's next for flaying?

• DateTuesday, July 4, 2017

Procrustes lands blows on hapless hacks and pusillanimous politicians ... Bagging the unelected guardians ... Gillian Triggs ... Mark Weinberg ... Squelching Chris Kenny ... China looks to a new model: dictatorship plus the rule of law 

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Monday
Jul032017

Nuttall is lost

• DateMonday, July 3, 2017

Bribery of Queensland mines minister ... Solicitor not fit and proper to practice, but sufficiently fit and proper to stay on the jam roll ... The case of a high flying lawyer and banana bending businessman whose wax wings melted ... Lawyer who said he never wanted to practice again can now reapply after five years ... Sohini Mehta reports 

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