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Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >> 

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An Australian Abroad ... An essay with pictures … Egypt and the Grand Museum … No end to the antiquities … Down the Nile on a dahabiya … Tombs and temples … Paris and industrial-scale tourism … The Yarts & Kulture ... Read on >> 

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Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >> 

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Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Most important of all, in addition, we have the World Cup and we have the Olympics. Can you imagine [if] I missed that four years? And now look what I have. I have everything - amazing the way things work out. God did that, I believe that too." 

Donald Trump in a speech at Arlington National Cemetary, noting that he will be president for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ... May 26, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Zeilgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 


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The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Aug012023

The common law needs a backbone

Out, not out ... Broad strokes ... Limits of the common law when it comes to trust in government ... Robodebt shows how ... Cases reveal the futility of the law ... Weakness of the judicial branch in setting standards for the State ... Procrustes on a mission 

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Tuesday
Jul252023

AI. Oi, Oi, Oi

Artificial intelligence as a transaction monitoring tool ... Getting to grips with the money laundromats ... The algorithm is king ... Machines are better than humans at risk identification ... What could possibly go wrong? ... Ariana Haghighi on the technological edge 

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Friday
Jul212023

Loitering on the bench

Time's up ... Lengthy cogitation ... Delays at the judicial mill ... Justice Jackman birches slow coach judge Kathleen Farrell ... Delays at the AAT ... Old laggards from WA Supremes ... Favourites and new entrants to the club ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jul192023

Tassie Tiger's Last Stand

Peter Lyons RIP ... Leverhulme's trackside send-off ... "Advokkacy forever" ... York as Shangri La ... Racehorses ... Training lawyers ... Poetry ... A huge fan club at the parade ring... Funeral notes from Simon (Capability) Brown KC 

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Monday
Jul172023

How to Kill a Client

Big Law ... Murder, money and misogyny ... Dealing with an unspeakable client ... Too much testosterone ... Crime thriller from Joanna Jenkins - someone who knows where the bodies are buried ... Book review from Anna Kretowicz  

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Tuesday
Jul112023

The infallibility of SCOTUS

US Supreme Court makes it up as it goes along ... Contrived cases to fit a reactionary agenda ... Plaintiffs with no standing ... Further indulgence for religious discrimination ... Under-equipped judges on a rampage ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Jul112023

Letter from London

Getting up to speed with Prince Harry's hacking litigation ... Spare me ... The Duke of Sussex tangles with the notion of privacy ... Press regulator IPSO makes a shock finding against the press ... Grovel from The Sun over Clarkson column ... Thamesside tales from Floyd Alexander-Hunt 

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Friday
Jul072023

Speech day

Yarraside briefs ... Sam Hay's weekly bulletins ... DPP Judd v Nettle ... A standoff beyond words ... Agonising judgment delay in visa case ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jul052023

Leon Zwier

Melbourne lawyer Leon Zwier On The Couch ... Honouring the legacy of a former partner ... The hour of need - assisting Brittany Higgins and Eryn Jean Norvill ... The misuse of documents obtained coercively in litigation ... Grudges ... Racism ... Plaited loaves 

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