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Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>

 

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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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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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Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... 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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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Wednesday
May102017

A night out

The big night of bench and bar schmoozing interrupted by a call for gender equality ... "WTF" ... Many codgers not on the page ... Women briefs ecstatic ... Tweets galore ... Others roaming the alleyways ask, "where are the characters?" 

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Monday
May082017

Manus case goes upstream

Judge agrees to streaming for Manus class action against the Commonwealth ... Open justice ... Members of the group are widely dispersed ... Benthamites delighted ... Peach Melba with her latest Yarraside report 

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Friday
May052017

Rares as hens' teeth

Federal Court judge throws down the gauntlet ... Solicitors told to keep off the bar's patch ... Too many solicitors spoiling the broth ... Barristers are more efficient and cheaper! ... The client's "best interests" 

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Friday
May052017

Not so wonderful Copenhagen

Denmark ... Great at furniture design, but wanting in legal education ... Maybe it's because university education is free ... (N.B. Malcolm Turnbull) ... An LLM exchange student looks for the rigour ... Hygge more important than a high paying job ... Hannah Wootton files from Copenhagen 

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Tuesday
May022017

Nowhere land

Kafkaesque passport scenario ... New "effective and efficient procedures" ... Stuck in immigration detention while seeking to be removed to Pakistan ... Nauru or PNG would be better than Villawood ... Shades of Al-Kateb ... From Sohini Mehta 

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Sunday
Apr302017

Outwitted

Barely Legal hallucinates about the Witness Examination Competition ... Three rounds in a haze of Codeine ... The triumph of the inquisitorial learning process ... Winning, losing - who knows 

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Saturday
Apr292017

The search for Australian values

Driven by suspicion and fear ... The store detective cases ... The "intuitive" actions of the Border Protection brigade ... Persecution of artists ... Cases that reflect different traditions ... How broadminded and tolerant are we, Procrustes asks? 

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Wednesday
Apr262017

Gleeson's beach boy phase

Former solicitor general has city gaff on the market ... Allan Myers up close ... Drowsy procrastination out west ... Wooden hammers for British judges ... Tamil Watch 

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Monday
Apr242017

Black is the new black

New judges' robes for the VicSupremes ... Strength and modernity is the message ... History binned in move towards more modest judicial dress-ups ... From our Melbourne blogger Peach Melba 

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