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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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"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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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
May302021

Celebrity Sue

• DateSunday, May 30, 2021

Ultimately, being a celebrity silk does not save the day ... Chrysanthou out of the Christian Porter battle ... Where now for the case? ... Rising costs, delays ... Financial vulnerability ... Unhelpful media commentary from the applicant ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Wednesday
May262021

Time flies when you're having ... 

• DateWednesday, May 26, 2021

Freshly minted from university ... Associateship beckons ... Interim job bailing water out of the leaky parole boat ... Delays and judicial reviews ... Barely Legal finds out about stuff never taught at university 

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Sunday
May232021

Porter's case runs amok

• DateSunday, May 23, 2021

Dyer v Chrysanthou ... Porter stands by his brief as case gets bogged in interlocutory disputes ... Trouble for client when the lawyers become the main story ... Expense and delay do not assist Porter ... "Infection" of the legal team ... September trial date looking wobbly ... Defamation trial could clash with the electoral cycle ... Observations from Artemus Jones 

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Thursday
May202021

Onward Christian Soldiers

• DateThursday, May 20, 2021

The Christian's defamation campaign has been sidetracked ... Now he's a respondent fighting to keep one of his barristers on the ticket ... Risk of misuse of confidential information ... Discovery ordered ... Who told others of concerns about potential conflict? ... Layer upon layer of contention before we get to D-Day 

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Wednesday
May192021

Wet lettucing for racist, homophobic vilification

• DateWednesday, May 19, 2021

NCAT hands out paltry penalty for "vile" tirade ... Distressing assault in Taree ... Vilification delivered from private property but held to be a "public act" ... Adverse psychological effect on Aboriginal elder ... No order for an apology because it would not be "sincere" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
May192021

Report from Hong Kong

• DateWednesday, May 19, 2021

What's going on with law and justice in Hong Kong ... Large number of accused in democracy clamp-down ... Special judges who accept subservient role ... Preliminary election regarded as subversion ... Legislative Council expected to be "patriotic" ... Newspaper proprietor in prison ... Text books being re-written ... Exodus accelerates ... From Our Man Clinging On In Hong Kong 

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Monday
May172021

Noteworthy decision

• DateMonday, May 17, 2021

Billing ... Ebsworth refused to hand over file notes to client ... Client's bills paid by bank ... Property of the file notes ... For whose benefit were the file notes created? ... No charge code in billing system for file notes ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
May172021

Accessory to the swordsman

• DateMonday, May 17, 2021

Prosecutor on the ropes ... Court finds murder prosecution was unreasonable ... Unstable witness the basis of "case theory" ... Witness alleges mistreatment by DPP ... Evidence withheld ... Offender recovers legal fees ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
May142021

RBG reincarnated

• DateFriday, May 14, 2021

Insights into the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Towards a More Perfect Union ... The great sex discrimination abolitionist ... A supreme intellect at work ... Braham Dabscheck reviews a collection of RGB's speeches and key cases ... Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue 

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