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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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      Greg Barns SC ... The Segal report on combatting antisemitism is Trumpian ... It should be ignored
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      Another report from Brian Leveson ... The way judge and jury trials are organised is unsustainable ... If allowed to continue criminal justice in Britain will collapse
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      A special report on lawyers' assessments on whether to build or buy AI tools
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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 ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Oct132021

The Toll of an intimidating legal threat

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Hobart law shop issued disgraceful defamation letter to young victim of sexual harassment ... Defamation bluster ... Abuse of power imbalance ... Effect on emotional wellbeing ... Aggravated damages ... Max Shanahan reporting 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

Ominous agenda of SCOTUS' supermajority

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Stonewalling the January 6 investigation ... Obstruction of justice is flavour of the season ... Midterm dangers ... Huge report on attempted subversion of the DoJ ... Supreme Court docket ... "State secrets" ... Legal theory in support of election heist ... From Washington Roger Fitch reports 

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Tuesday
Oct122021

MPs clip SA ICAC in record time

• DateTuesday, October 12, 2021

The integrity wars continue ... ICACs everywhere under assault ... South Australian politicians eviscerate the state's anti-corruption body ... Strange timing ... Looking after the patch ... Attorney General investigated over possible conflicts ... Max Shanahan reporting

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Wednesday
Oct062021

Bar's health report

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

NSW bar ... Covid creates a different world for barristers ... Can it ever be the same again? ... Clinging on ... The chambers model's uncertain future ... Expenses trimmed ... Curate's egg ... Some parts thriving ... Younger briefs need helping hands ... JJJ hearings 

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Wednesday
Oct062021

I once met ... Arnold Schwarzenegger

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

Communications and branding guru and former ABC producer Julian Canny met Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s ... The briefest interview that ever made it to air ... Arnie at "optimum extension" ... Aunty's scratched footage 

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Wednesday
Oct062021

Warning - Danger Ahead

, • DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

NSW goes back to the future ... Cabinet shuffle looming ... Anti-corruption firebrand chafing in the nether region ... Judicial recognition of the Taliban ... New eftpos machine arrives in Hobart ... Angelo Vasta RIP ... Rule of law hysterics about ICAC ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep302021

Everyone's revolting

• DateThursday, September 30, 2021

Leverhulme on bloody activists ... Motorway blockages ... Labour conference at Brighton ... Lord Brown has  Second Helpings ... Barry Humphries' book of revenge ... Soaring gas prices, petrol shortages ... Turner Art Prize goes dark and mumbly ... London Calling 

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Monday
Sep272021

Police causing death in "good faith"

• DateMonday, September 27, 2021

NT policeman charged with murder of Indigenous man ... High Court to hear special leave and appeal together ... Core functions of police force ... Protection for civil or criminal acts committed by police ... How far does police protection run? ... "Unjustified" trial delay ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Sunday
Sep262021

I Once Met ... Margaret Thatcher

• DateSunday, September 26, 2021

David Bennett QC had an encounter at the House of Lords ... Former PM Margaret Thatcher on the supremacy of parliament ... Frosty view on Australian constitutional checks and balances 

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