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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Sunday
Apr232017

Taxes and professional death

• DateSunday, April 23, 2017

No tax returns for 11 years sees shyster struck off the jam roll ... Driving and practising law without licenses ... Which is worse? ... Underworld connections  

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Thursday
Apr202017

The persecution of Kate McCann

• DateThursday, April 20, 2017

The media has been at its salacious worst in the case of missing child Madeleine McCann ... Kate McCann given the Lindy Chamberlain treatment ... Tabloid and broadsheets alike questioned her authenticity ... "Yummy mummy and neurotic recluse" ... Social media trolls the least of it ... The tragedy made worse by bungling Portuguese police and judiciary ... From Sohini Mehta 

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Monday
Apr172017

The post-Warren world - nominations and odds

• DateMonday, April 17, 2017

New CJ for the Vic Supremes ... Field set for the Warren Replacement Stakes ... Contenders nominated by Justinian's readers ... Curious odds being offered ... Names most frequently mentioned: Doyle, McLeod and Maxwell 

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Sunday
Apr162017

The wrong right

• DateSunday, April 16, 2017

Student gloom ... The injustice of multiple choice exams ... Degrees of rightness ... The hard art of law ... Law school admission and PTSD ... Predicting the examiners thought processes ... Barely Legal picks the "wrong" right answer 

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Thursday
Apr132017

The Tamil Times

• DateThursday, April 13, 2017

Readers taken on a wild trip with The Australian's legal affairs coverage ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C go nowhere ... However, a journalist on a mission doesn't give up, despite the loss of limbs 

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Tuesday
Apr112017

Unpacking the legal assistance numbers

• DateTuesday, April 11, 2017

The uproar over the funding of community legal centres ... Less money, more work ... A constituency of disinterest to Brandis ... the ABA says, "let's get creative" 

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Friday
Apr072017

Questioning the Socratic method

• DateFriday, April 7, 2017

Cold calling by the professor ... The terror ... Students freeze under interrogation ... Socratic teaching under fire at Harvard Law School ... White men pipe-up most ... Hot topics under threat ... From Hannah Ryan 

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Monday
Apr032017

Scoping the advocates' immunity

• DateMonday, April 3, 2017

Immunity from suit ... High Court has another stab at it ... Oxford's Professor of Obligations in the driving seat ... More loose threads appear ... No finality in sight for the quelling of immunity cases 

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Saturday
Apr012017

Russian takeover

• DateSaturday, April 1, 2017

Judicial movements ... Sofronoff appointment seen as a strong move ... Will Timbo send flowers? ... Earl Warren calls it a day ... Contenders polishing their whiskers 

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