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Entries in Apprehended bias (3)

Thursday
Oct102013

Pride and Prejudice

Failed application to remove Justice Kate McMillan from Victorian damages case against The Age ... Lengthy regurgitation of transcript ... Trying to get focus ... Failure to make notes ... Lack of judicial eye contact ... Misapplication of the word "garlic" ... Curt and non-embracing ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Friday
Feb032012

Keddies stuck in the stalls

Updated on Friday, February 10, 2012 by Registered CommenterJustinian

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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Tuesday
Aug312010

The appeal of a silk's purse

From across the ditch comes the sulphurous whiffs of judicial impropriety ... New Zealand appeal judge's conflict of interest ... Justice Bill Wilson failed to give full, open disclose about his financial involvement with senior counsel for litigant ... Traffic of distressing emails 

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