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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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Costs blowouts ... Lehrmann wants $100,000 from Corruption Concealment Commission - The Australian >> ... Brittany Higgins ordered to pay 80% of Linda Reynolds' defamation costs which are in excess of $1 million - ABC >> ... Kerry Stokes required to pay $13.5 million for Nine's legal costs in the Ben Roberts-Smith case - AFR >>

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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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News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... 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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Nov152022

RBG: Of Many, One

• DateTuesday, November 15, 2022

Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Heather Mitchell as "Notorious RBG" ... Review by Braham Dabscheck 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

Western Mail

• DateTuesday, November 15, 2022

Judgment delivered in another Lloyd Rayney defamation case ... Two years gestation ... Recusal application denied ... Appeal pending ... Another Perth supermodel not getting up for under $10,000 a day ... Appeal judges ask for more details of work done ... Groper reports  

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Monday
Nov142022

Election deniers get elected

• DateMonday, November 14, 2022

Roger Fitch in Washington takes a close look at the mid-term results ... Abortion probably played a bigger role than the Big Lie ... Pre-election meddling by the Supreme Court ... Not all the crazies lost ... The Republican House has inquisitions planned ... Voting rights and abortion protected in some state ballots 

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Friday
Nov112022

The Restoration

• DateFriday, November 11, 2022

RIP Bob Ellicott ... Former solicitor general, MP, attorney general and judge ... Contention dogged his political career ... "Bullshit" advice about the governor general's power to remove a government ... In the thick of November 11, 1975 

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Wednesday
Nov092022

Lunar event

• DateWednesday, November 9, 2022

An exam paper with built-in "reputational damage" ... University grovels to upset law student ... Same scenario used in earlier exams ... Extension of time granted for stress ... Max Shanahan reports on an awful calamity 

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Sunday
Nov062022

Scandalum magnatum

DateSunday, November 6, 2022

Murdoch v Crikey ... Round one ... Public interest defence holds up ... Application to strike out the pleadings rejected ... Case management ... Public interest defence has legs and arms ... Why do titans need to crush their critics? ... Another blockbuster  

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Thursday
Nov032022

Heaven's gateway

• DateThursday, November 3, 2022

Vic Bar readers' course and exam ... Monstrously hard exam with high failure rate ... Clogged course ... Bulging waiting lists ... Skewed demographic of bar entrants ... The overflow ... Barriers to entry ... Joseph Friedman reports 

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Wednesday
Nov022022

On the rack

• DateWednesday, November 2, 2022

UN's torture inspectors turn tail ... Rebuffed in Queanbeyan ... Snail like progress on compliance system ... Funding snafu ... Australia's new human rights agenda takes a hit ... Max Shanahan with the story 

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Monday
Oct312022

Recklessly different

• DateMonday, October 31, 2022

NSW Law Society swaps sides to support the solicitor it had wanted struck off ... NCAT out of line in trust account case ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Law Society's original complaint lacked clarity ... Max Shanahan reports 

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