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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Thursday
Sep152016

Further unintelligible conundrums

• DateThursday, September 15, 2016

Gerard Baden-Clay tried a new angle on appeal ... The Qld Court of Appeal swallowed it ... The High Court didn't ... Lingering shadows of R v Kear ... Multiple case concepts ... Allowing an accused two bites of the cherry ... Barry Lane on appellant jiggery-pokery 

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Tuesday
Sep132016

TPP heads towards the ditch

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2016

Voting in Republican states is a daunting ordeal ... Staff-to-prisoner ratio at Guantánamo stands at 33:1 ... Finding new jurisdiction for a war crime ... The TPP - a charter allowing badly behaved US companies to behave badly in other countries ... Star Chambers staffed by corporate lawyers ... Roger Fitch rails against "free trade" initiatives 

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Tuesday
Sep132016

David Lemmings

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2016

On The Couch with Professor David Lemmings ... Exploring the life and times of the English bar in the eighteenth century ... He has also studied the early role of the press in reporting criminal trials and the part it played in forming public opinion about justice and the courts 

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Thursday
Sep082016

Vixit sees the rise of a new Boris

• DateThursday, September 8, 2016

Victorian bar council plotting to pull out of the Law Council of Australia ... Gentle academic enters the Phillip Street hornets' nest ... Timbo Carmody in Brisbane ethics fest 

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Thursday
Sep082016

Brandis' disclosure phobia

• DateThursday, September 8, 2016

Full Federal Court decision in Brandis v Dreyfus FOI case explained by Alexi Polden ... Brandis said it is a matter of principle to explore the "proper application" of the FOI Act ... However, his case varied between the tribunal and the court ... Full Feds not impressed with AG's case 

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Wednesday
Sep072016

Investigation into prosecution conduct at murder trial

• DateWednesday, September 7, 2016

Murder conviction quashed ... Acquittal verdict by CCA in the case of a refugee where vital evidence was not disclosed at trial by the prosecution ... DPP orders an investigation into prosecution failures ... Justin Pen reports from ringside 

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Tuesday
Sep062016

A (Senior) Policeperson's Lot is not an 'Appy One

• DateTuesday, September 6, 2016

Rebuke for top coppers over failure to direct proceedings at Lindt Café siege is overblown and misplaced ... Different objectives for police and standing armies ... Arresting constables and the common law ... Family connections in South Australia's silk trade ... Procrustes offers a wine tip 

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Sunday
Sep042016

Jockeying for silk in Queensland

• DateSunday, September 4, 2016

QC season underway in Qld as barristers rush for royal bling ... Sadly, the Queens Counsel bauble has failed to lift business at the Brisneyland bar  

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Tuesday
Aug302016

Poms take the online English Reports back to the bosom

• DateTuesday, August 30, 2016

Talk about disruption ... Council of Law Reporting sends divorce papers to LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for publication in Australia, Canada, NZ and USA ... The old law publishing world coming apart ... End of the oligopoly in sight 

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