Appendix 3

Last minute desperation ... After the ICAC hearing concluded, lawyers for the baddies wheel out a barrow-load of issues ... ICAC investigation should have been run more like a trial ... Ipp squelches Hale and Littlemore ... Gratuitous complaints about counsel assisting dismissed 

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Is this the best defence, ever?

Defence pleadings of an exceptional quality in Queensland District Court case ... Notice of intention to defend ... Abuse of process ... The Vibe ... Defamation ... The works ... There should be more pleadings in this style 

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So long Laurie

Updated on Thursday, August 1, 2013 by Justinian

Little Laurie Glanfield out of favour with Barry O'Farrell ... Top bureaucrats reshuffled ... Not long before Laurie shuffles off to Buffalo ... Greg Pearce ponging badly ... Updated with latest development on Pearce sacking ... From political reporter Alex Mitchell 

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Unearthing the Delilah Syndrome

Judging Gov. Arthur Phillip ... Spiggsy comes out for a book launch ... Law Society farewells the Legal Servo Commish ... Remembering a dotty crown psychiatrist ... The Delilah Syndrome 

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Sex, married bliss and the Constitution

Gay weddings and the state ... Is the law leaving Abbott behind? ... A flurry of opinionistas on whether the John Howard version of marriage is the end of the matter ... Whether State law would be inconsistent with the Commonwealth's ... Constitutional hanky-panky

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Ghostly confusion over authorship

Wrong byline on Law Society prez's article in the Fin Review ... Seeking the "number one" barrister in the land ... Lionel Murphy's ALAO anniversary celebrated in enemy territory 

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Wymyn-in-Law

Another step in the search for gender equality in legal practice ... "Thought leadership" from the NSW Law Society ... More of the same ... Inquiries needed into the role of men and the management of law firms ... Attrition and reengagement ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Guilty and/or Not Guilty

Updated on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by Justinian

Cracked trials ... Last minute change of plea from guilty to not guilty ... Consequences for the financial interests of lawyers ... Judges know about lawyers' financially driven shenanigans, but they keep shtum ... Tulkinghorn on how the system is mulcted 

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Party Party

Justice Virginia Bell explains some of the tensions in contemporary art movements as she opens stylish exhibition ... Official launch party for Guardian Australia ... Sharp elbows at Carriageworks

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Straying from the rightful path

Corporate mercenaries settle with Iraqi victims ... While Abu Ghraib contractor ducks liability for torture ... Corporates and conservatives generally pleased after Supreme Court's latest term ... British newspaper scoops US media on major security story ... Spying on attorneys at Gitmo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports 

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Mark: his words

Steve Mark, chief of the Bureau de Spank, says goodbye ... He believes the OLSC's handling of Keddies was "a major success" ... Cultural Regulation v Behavioural Regulation 

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Reclaiming history

New record for Roughshagger … Law Society goes the extra mile for an old mate … Defenders grapple with "evidence of silence" … The Australian's bereft partnership survey … Malcolm Turnbull's marvellous air-brushing machine … Soapy out of the shadows 

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Cover-up capers

Critical findings on critical incidents ... In a scathing report the NSW Police Integrity Commission comes down against the coppers and their blundering cover-up of the Adam Salter shooting ... Flawed internal reviews ... Recommendation for police to be charged with perjury ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Personal disruptions

Solicitor off the track over "voidness" scam … The Keddies wash-up - no professional misconduct for $215,000 over-charge … Depression and despair win the day for solicitor in dysfunctional partnership ... Bureaux de Spank spanked 

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Sunland and Sunshine State shenanigans

Allegations of witness tampering and falsified evidence in the Sunland case ... Matthew Joyce caught in the desert of Dubai ... Sunland v Prudentia ... Devastating judgment from Vic Supremo ... What next? ... Surely the stipes should probe ... Sir Terence O'Rort on the warpath 

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High Court goes down the primrose path

Where else but Queensland? ... The monarchist puppy disguised as an attorney general ... QCs ... Why not do it properly and bring back serjeants-at-law, coifs and heraldic devices? ... Plus, the High Court leaves us ever more exposed to executive action, without a shield ... Procrustes on his high horse  

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High Court shuffle

Not only will the treasury benches be rejigged after September 14, so too will the High Court ... Soapy Brandis' vanity bauble ... Legal outsourcing in Van Diemen's Land ... Homework for litigants ... Love at the Lubyanka ... Stand-off between Wayne's World and the WA AG ... Oz legal affairs section wilting ... Meritorious appointment caught-up in Pearce attack ... Courts discuss social media policy, but keep the twitterers at bay 

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Takes one to know one

Over-billing in PI cases rears its unattractive head, again, as wounded Keddies partner takes on his nemesis, Stephen Firth ... Battle of the big billers ... Mounting claims against hero of the overcharged ... Stinger stung 

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CJ's opinions collide with the law

Speechifying and the creation of new law ... Queensland CJ de Jersey at it again ... Personal views differ from what the law says ... Beyond reasonable doubt ... Right to silence ... Prior convictions ... All up for grabs in Queensland ... What's a juror to think? ... From Peter Callaghan QC 

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Forster hit midships

All at sea ... Latest round in VicAppeals on the David Forster disaster ... HMAS Voyager tragedy ... Explanations about double payments of disbursements "unsatisfactory" ... "Unorthodox" rectification ... Funds from law firm property sale stay frozen ... Receivers chasing $2.72 million 

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