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Time's Up for Naughty Nathan ... Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled ... Misuse of online funding campaigns ... Spraying ripe and abusive language ... Trolling Robert Beech-Jones ... So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... Read more >>

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Perils of the Defamatorium ... Lovely Linda Reynolds’ “victory” leaves her underwater … Politics, sex, law, and money … Injuries galore … The art of Tottling … Where’s the serious harm? … Trust me … Jurisdictional backwater ... Read more >> 

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      Speech by Andrew Bell CJ at ABA knees up ... Changes at the bar and the challenge of Gen AI
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      Wednesday (Aug 27) set for judgment in Reynolds v Higgins defamation ... WA Supreme Court
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      Stephen Gageler urges judges to stay in line in order to protect the community's trust in the courts
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Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >> 

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End of the road ... No special leave for Roberts-Smith ... More >> ... Media respondents secure lump sum costs order for Roberts-Smith's fruitless Full Feds appeal ... Is it Gina's turn to cough up now that Stokes has pulled the plug? ... More >>

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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Where are the glossy magazine spreads traversing what Reynolds and Brown went through? Where is the march for justice in support of these two brave women? Where is the apology from Gallagher and Wong? Where is the inquiry into the $2.4m of taxpayer money we now know was paid by the Department of Finance on the basis of false statements?"

Linda Reynolds is the victim here, not Brittany Higgins who was raped on Reynold's ministerial couch ... From Janet Albrechtsen, leader of the Reynolds' cheer squad ... The Australian, August 29, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and Betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... Plenty to think about ... Court reporter Ginger Snatch files ... Read more >> 

 

 

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The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Monday
Jul222024

More fun with costs

• DateMonday, July 22, 2024

Motor car accident ... No real challenge as to liability ... $1,699.69 in dispute for rear end repair bill ... Plaintiff ordered to pay 95% of the legal costs - currently at $150,000 ... Prize for astounding damages to costs ratio ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Saturday
Jul202024

Something for true believers

• DateSaturday, July 20, 2024

Things you should know about the Australian Labor Party Nick ... History ... Tensions ... Triumphs ... Splits ... Where are the working class MPs? ... Braham Dabscheck reviews Dyrenfurth & Bongiorno's A Little History Of The Australian Labor Party ... Rats in the ranks 

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Friday
Jul122024

Planet's pin-up girl

• DateFriday, July 12, 2024

Linda Reynolds' pleadings ... Brittany Higgins' defence is yet to appear from behind the curtain ... Slow process at the WA Supremes ... High drama over a few social media posts ..."Plan" to bring down the government ... Selective reporting from the usual suspects ... Pointers to the cover-up ... Sandy Groper reports from Perth 

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Wednesday
Jul102024

Jail lingo

• DateWednesday, July 10, 2024

Prison patois ... Underworld lexicography ... Important contribution to Australian English ... Wordologists' delight ... Bruce Moore's The 1972 Parramatta Jail Glossary ... Reviewed by Linda Funnell 

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Tuesday
Jul092024

Epistle from Torrenside

• DateTuesday, July 9, 2024

Latest additions to the Federales ... Breeding ground for the Saloon ... Needham and McDonald JJ ... South Australian CJs who spurned the High ... John Bray CJ - selected poems and ornamental bird bath ... Crow Eaters ... Procrustes files  

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Friday
Jul052024

Reign of Terror

DateFriday, July 5, 2024

SCOTUS ... Shocker decisions from the latest term ... The Trump Docket ... Presidential immunity ... Gratuities and bribes ... Obstruction ... Admin law trashed ... Criminalising the homeless ... Espionage Act - two sides of the coin for Assange and Trump ... At last, someone convicted at Guantánamo of a real war crime ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Jul022024

The election season

• DateTuesday, July 2, 2024

The case for compulsory voting ... Pity the Brits, French and Americans where politicians have to "get out the vote" ... Nathan Twibill on the advantages of the "median voter" strategy ... Vote early, vote often 

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Tuesday
Jul022024

Vic brief in trouble, again

• DateTuesday, July 2, 2024

Unsubstantiated claim of "false document and fraud" ... Barrister sent off the track ... Upheld by Vic appeals ... Immunity principle applying to costs orders ... Multiple run ins ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Tuesday
Jul022024

Anything goes

• DateTuesday, July 2, 2024

Solicitor changes lanes ... Warned client of possible conflict ... VicSupremes says "go ahead" ... Legal Services Commissioner on standby ... Plus ... Plundering clients' estates for personal expenses ... More than $2 million AWOL from Wollongong law shop ... Derolling after time served ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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