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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
Oct252022

Furious activity

, • DateTuesday, October 25, 2022

Vic's bar in ructions over election ticket ... NSW bar loses another fine old hand ... Bookshelves Brandis - a threat to the rule of law ... Alarm on appeal filing fees ... KC ordered out of court ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Oct232022

Marijuana mañana

• DateSunday, October 23, 2022

The ins and outs of cannabis legalisation ... Proposals from Greens senator David Shoebridge ... Constitutional possibilities ... Forget the states ... Let the Commonwealth light-up ... External affairs ... Patents ... Referral powers ... Max Shanahan takes a puff 

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Friday
Oct212022

Vote early, vote often

• DateFriday, October 21, 2022

Law Society of NSW ... Election watch ... Vote for a revamped council ... Proxies and pressure ... Lack of transparency on expenditures ... Consultant babble ... Other reforms are more pressing ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Oct142022

The Large Firm Society

• DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Sweeping constitutional change for the Phillip Street lawyers' temple ... Handing control to the top dogs ... Resistance mounts ... AGM looms ... Patronage possibilities ... NZ Law Society loses a president ... Cultural review ... Theodora files 

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Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

, • DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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Wednesday
Oct052022

Exceptional circumstances

, • DateWednesday, October 5, 2022

Where's the sunshine? ... Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks ... Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings ... The hurdle is already unnecessarily high ... What reputational damage? ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct042022

Jayne gets High

• DateTuesday, October 4, 2022

Jayne Jagot ... A humble non-silk ... She reached for the stars ... A serious case of the smarts ... Identified by Mark Dreyfus at least seven years ago ... Significant judgments ... High Court test in Chelmsford looming ... Rarely without trousers ... Theodora reports 

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Saturday
Oct012022

The Mason-Katz Doctrine

• DateSaturday, October 1, 2022

Appointments to AAT ... Questions of constitutional invalidity ... Pre-election Coalition gifts ... Unsuitable appointments ... Dreyfus responds ... Former judges raise issues of legitimacy ... Extended and overlapping terms ... Theodora reports 

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