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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 for legal costs arising from raid by the Corruption Concealment Commission - The Australian >> ... Brittany Higgins ordered to pay 80% of Linda Reynolds' defamation costs - Judgment >> ... Kerry Stokes required to pay $13.5 million for Nine's costs in the Ben Roberts-Smith disaster - 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
Sep132022

Constitutional crisis among the atolls

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2022

Throttling the judiciary in Kiribati ... Appeal decision in favour of Justice David Lambourne ... Open ended term not unconstitutional ... Judicial "coup" ... "Fraud upon the court" ... High Court judges suspended ... Role of China ... Riley Brown reports 

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Friday
Sep092022

Critics Corner

, • DateFriday, September 9, 2022

History of the Victorian bar in a nutshell ... 350 pages ... Highs and lows ... The insistence on being separate ... Great cases ... Big personalities ... Melbourne Grammar takes over from British briefs ... White bread and orthodoxy ... Hugh Vullier reviews Vic Bar 

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Wednesday
Sep072022

Khan caught behind

• DateWednesday, September 7, 2022

From cricket hero to alleged terrorist ... Imran Khan's alleged speech offences under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act ... Political opponents sidelined as terrorists ... Where the judiciary plays a political function ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep022022

Students are revolting

• DateFriday, September 2, 2022

Lawyers of tomorrow ... Malcolm Turnbull draws law student protest at his alma mater ... Campus chaos  at University of Sydney ... Students see in Turnbull what they'll be when they grow up ... The unbearable smugness of being ... Max Shanahan reports from the front line 

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Friday
Sep022022

The state of surveillance

• DateFriday, September 2, 2022

Rolling police surveillance at Risdon Prison ... Lawyers and other visitors illegally recorded for over two months ... Case dropped against lawyer on charges of perverting the course of justice ... Trouble at The Map 

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Tuesday
Aug302022

Palletable blueberries

• DateTuesday, August 30, 2022

Fresh waywardness from Circuit Court ... Bankruptcy petition over blueberry pallet bills ... Shortcomings in reasons ... Failure to go behind the judgment debt ... Was money actually owed to the creditor? ... Back it goes for rehearing 

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Thursday
Aug252022

Murdoch v Crikey

• DateThursday, August 25, 2022

Starting gun fired ... Ticklish media baron sues independent news publisher ... "Unindicted co-conspirator" in Trump's crimes ... No-one likes to be pushed around by a billionaire bully with an overblown sense of entitlement ... News from The Defamatorium 

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Thursday
Aug252022

The judge in an unstable world

• DateThursday, August 25, 2022

Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the Taliban 

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Wednesday
Aug242022

Dreyfus' affairs

• DateWednesday, August 24, 2022

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and his agenda ... Massive reform agenda after years of neglect and paralysis ... Overtones of Lionel Murphy's busy era as AG ... National security ...Whistleblowers ... Human rights ... Max Shanahan reports 

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