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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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      Israel's war in Gaza has undermined freedom of speech and the international rule of law
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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

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Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Zeitgeist 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 Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Saturday
Feb262022

Clueless judges 

• DateSaturday, February 26, 2022

Sleaze on the bench ... Wandering hands ... Half-baked apologies from sexually harassing judges ... Professional boundaries violated ... Claim that investigations not legitimate ... Hiding behind legal mumbo jumbo ... The penny that never drops 

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Tuesday
Feb222022

On a search for whimsy

• DateTuesday, February 22, 2022

What do law students do during the summer break ... Start a newspaper ... A counterpoint to the law's dry stuff ... First edition of Amicus Courier online now ... From Djokovic to haiku ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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Friday
Feb182022

Legitimate political discourse

• DateFriday, February 18, 2022

Net closing, all too slowly, on Trump ... Deserted by accountants ... Flushing papers ... Destruction and obstruction ... Supreme Court odds-on the uphold racial gerrymanders ... Voting rights for the chopper ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Feb152022

Birds on the wire

, • DateTuesday, February 15, 2022

God cancels judges' birthdays ... Freedom from religious violence ... Victorian barristers told to be nice to each other ... Pole positions for NSW CJ ... Judge whacks silk for unworthiness ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Feb152022

Quo Vadis, Aida?

, • DateTuesday, February 15, 2022

Bosnian war crimes ... The Srebrenica massacre ... The fruitless struggle to save a family ... Failure of the United Nations and NATO ... Europe's worst bloodshed since WW11 ... Miss Lumière at the cinema  

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Saturday
Feb122022

Great stinks

• DateSaturday, February 12, 2022

No planning, please, we're neoliberals ... Puerile advice from the AFR ... Forbidden ideas that have to be shot down by wizened press oligarch's dancing bears ... Morrison's leaden routine versus the spritz of Boris Johnson ... Procrustes files 

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Wednesday
Feb092022

A brief history of abortion reform in NSW

• DateWednesday, February 9, 2022

Campaigning barrister and politician ... The Heatherbrae case with Aaron Levine ... Meaning of unlawfully in the Crimes Act ... Arrangement between police and abortion campaigners ... In 2019 NSW became the last state to decriminalise abortion ... Tom Kelly writes 

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Tuesday
Feb082022

Glorious Accession Day

• DateTuesday, February 8, 2022

A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart 

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Friday
Feb042022

Fresh hell

, • DateFriday, February 4, 2022

Silk gets unreserved by Map eatery ... Brain drain at Syd's Bar 'n' Grill ... The ACT's reserve bin ... Theodora reports 

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