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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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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Mar292021

Border lockdown for unticketed brief

Unlicensed in Sydney ... Brief expunged from the jam roll while licensed in Victoria and Queensland ... Trying to get around bar exams failures ... Main place of business was NSW ... Tottering raft of constitutional arguments ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Mar292021

Letter from Blighty

Tories meddling with the wheels of justice ... Johnson government wants to bring the Supreme Court to heel ... Too much "judicial activism" ... Clamping down on judicial reviews of administrative decisions ... Increased statutory senility ... Lord Chancellor has strange thoughts about linchpins ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Mar232021

Free the people from their chains

Concerned lawyers in support of Craig Kelly and hydroxychloroquine ... Lockdown class action in the pipeline, somewhere ... Bill of Rights (1688) where are you? ... False medical advice ... State of non-emergency and other disturbances ... Burn your masks 

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Monday
Mar222021

Porter dives in

Porter v ABC and Louise Milligan ... Applicant's pleadings are a mess and will need considerable work to make the grade ... Complexities on identification ... Upper case imputations do not arise ... Truth the primary defence ... Maybe QP as well ... Difficulties for the ABC ... Surprise counsel selection ... Artemus Jones reads the tea leaves 

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Sunday
Mar212021

Law Council decapitated

Yarraside's "anti-woke" uprising ... Blandification of Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Difficulty stumping-up $110 per brief to fund lawyers' voice to the nation ... "Complicated issue" ... More responses to come ... Outcry over push to return to court ... Peach Melba reports 

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Friday
Mar192021

Newes from Scotland - A Fishy Tail

Salmond and Sturgeon thrashing around in hot water ... Sex scandal catches former and current First Ministers on the hook ... Judicial review ... Criminal trial ... Parliamentary review on how harassment complaints were handled ... Skewering political adversaries ... Procrustes gives us three lessons 

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Thursday
Mar182021

Out of the Blue

Victorian Supreme Court judge's silken advice in a property dispute was negligent ... Damages of $1.185 million to be shared with law shop ... Inadequate information to support advice ... Hopefully, insurers will save the judge's bacon ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Mar122021

Portergate

Lawyers have to be fit and proper - why not the attorney general? ... Schmo Morrison's crack legal team on hand ... Silk emails the PM to set him straight ... Where to now with Porter? ... Polly Peck in Canberra 

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Thursday
Mar112021

It's moments like these you need Minties

Piles of moolah at stake ... The Christian meddles in litigation with Minter's media clients ... "Purposes and values" gets rolled ... Onward march of the (Big) Swinging Dicks 

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