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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
Mar012022

There's sunshine in Queensland

• DateTuesday, March 1, 2022

Helen Bowskill ... The new chief justice of Queensland ... Biographical details ... Empathy and smarts ... From legal secretary to lead singer with the Supremes ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports from Brisbane 

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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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