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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 >> 

 

 

Sunday
Aug082021

Shrill senator in meltdown over Burnside blitzkrieg

, • DateSunday, August 8, 2021

UPDATE ... WA bar president pens feisty free-speech letter to preposterous backbench noise machine ... Demands that silk be stripped of gongs ... Loose thinking ... WA bar reaches out in support of the right to express offensive views ... Groper reports 

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Sunday
Aug082021

Redaction report - latest

• DateSunday, August 8, 2021

What's going on? ... Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side ... Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues ... Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues ... Doom beckons if identity is revealed ... Hanging by a threat ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Aug062021

Letter from Blighty

• DateFriday, August 6, 2021

Anti-woke "ice-breakers" land solicitor in the freezer ... Postman's trespassing fingers and liability for a Boxer bite ... Snicker munching Syrian cooks up a storm in London ... Leverhulme reports 

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Thursday
Aug052021

Put and call

• DateThursday, August 5, 2021

Expensive family law shop divorce ... Negligent advice to stroke partner unable to work ... Incomplete advice ... NSW CA shaves nearly half-a-million from Rothman J's award of damages ... Commercial law firm still up for about $1 million in damages ... Misery ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Aug052021

Hal Wootten

• DateThursday, August 5, 2021

Obituary for Hal Wootten AC QC ... 1922-2021 ... Barrister - Law dean - Judge - Law reform commissioner - Royal commissioner - Press Council chairman - Environmentalist ... Indigenous rights and protections ... The cause of Palestinians ... Lawyer with a wide reach  

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Monday
Aug022021

In the Lee of the spoken word

• DateMonday, August 2, 2021

Don't bring your affidavits to Justice Lee ... Federal Court judge delivers a bollicking ... In remembrance of Lord Buckmaster ... Witnesses statements by affidavit ... Herbert Smith Freehills in the frame ... Inauthentic accounts of evidence ... Leaky wells ... Legal drafting supplants "real words" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Sunday
Aug012021

Uncivil disobedience

• DateSunday, August 1, 2021

Window into a weird world ... Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers ... Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information ... Harassment ... Media lawyers at 10 paces ... Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks ... Crowdfunding for High Court challenge ... Whether funds held in trust ... Alan Zheng reporting 

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Saturday
Jul312021

Clerkship chaos

• DateSaturday, July 31, 2021

Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line 

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Friday
Jul302021

Solicitor seeking closed shop treatment

• DateFriday, July 30, 2021

Suppression order sought but not granted ... Legal Services Commissioner's jurisdictional drama ... Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal ... Application to suppress details rejected ... Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed ... Feelings of despair ... Less work ... Snubbed ... Huge expense ... Law Reform Commission ... Alan Zheng reports 

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