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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Aug082022

We'll have a barrel of fun

Roll out the barrel ... What to do about pork-barrelling ... aka misuse of public money ... NSW's ICAC makes suggestions ... Report inspired by Aunty Glady's fund for securing marginal seats ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Sunday
Aug072022

Fees please

Medical negligence case sees extraordinary pre-trial bill ... Solicitor-client costs ... Compromised settlement before trial ... Judge asks for details ... Trustee to look carefully ... Plus news from WA on judge deciding a case on grounds that had not been pleaded ... Court in the Act 

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Friday
Aug052022

Secret Seven Go Back to Work

High Court's work rate ... Productivity drops in recent years ... Annual report ... Hefty expenditures on "workplace issues" ... Interesting items of expenditure ... From our High Court watcher Misty Malone 

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Monday
Aug012022

Too much information

Worldly Salvatore Vasta delves into the rich crevices of the English language ... Special translation confined to an appendix ... Boggo Road drama ... Insults ... Pete, Pete pumpkin eater ... Special from the FCFC 

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Friday
Jul292022

The Sandyman Cometh

Up the Street ... Bend over ... FCFC judge birched (again) by the Federal Court ... More interruptions ...Taking over the case ... Findings that were not made in submissions ... Go back start again ... Costly and inefficient process ... Judicial mentoring goes astray ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Jul292022

Desires of the flesh

Remote vs in-the-flesh hearings … Split bench of Allsop, Bell, and Ferguson CJs… Less Q & A … More flexibility … Less humanity … More efficiency … Judicial hits on YouTube … Coat of arms not just a piece of artwork …Winds of conservatism blow briskly through the legal world … Margery Ai reports 

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Thursday
Jul282022

Balkan intrigues

Miscarriage of justice ... Justice Robertson Wright, Julius Caesar expert, to examine the 1981 Croatian Six trial ... Third time lucky ... Prosecution failed to disclose conflicted role of chief crown witness ... From our Balkan affairs correspondent 

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Wednesday
Jul272022

A thing or two

NSW government goes softly-softly on anti-corruption ... AG from a crooked era nominated for chief commissioner ... South Australian magistrate loses conduct appeal ... Red wine snifters to raise funds for Queensland legal aid ... President of Vic Appeals hangs up his wig with a shot at mandatory sentencing ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Jul212022

Corrs blimey

Bollicking for large law shop over "independent" witness report ... Drafting assisted by lawyers ... Breach of expert witness code of conduct ... Law firm knew in advance what the findings would be ... Misleading the court ... Max Shanahan files 

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