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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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Mar112021

Happy families

Judges bailing out of the family courts at an alarming rate ... Delirium over merged courts fiasco ... No sign of a functioning attorney general ... Two Wigs Willy running the shop from Hobart ... Depleated appeal division ... New FCFCA bureau de spank for judges ... Still no certainty for an ancient "black hole" case  

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Monday
Mar082021

Biloela family - a timeline

Time doesn't fly in immigration detention ... A tortured path through Australia's visa regime for refugee applicants ... It's anything but Christmas ... A nine-year fight against cruelty and the law ... Janek Drevikovsky reviews the cases 

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Thursday
Mar042021

Porter in a storm

"It just didn't happen" ... But will it go away? ... Pushing through ... Holes in the case ... First law officer with an unresolved allegation of rape ... Career on hold, but ultimately kaput ... Polly Peck on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar022021

Alleged rapist on the cusp of a statement

Prêt à porter ... Horse in fetid stable ... Rule of Law ... Rule of the Jungle ... Political imperatives ... Statement expected in bold volte face ... Polly Peck reports

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Thursday
Feb252021

Beak bleat

Madges under pressure ... NSW's chief beak Graeme Henson unhappy with slow government response to Local Court crisis ... Pleading for more resources on multiple occasions ... New appointments filling retirements ... 10 more Madges needed ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Feb232021

Appeal judges twiddle the knobs

Walter Mitty con artist gets lower sentence from the NSW CCA ... Ponzi schemer fleeced friends, lovers and whoever else he could get his hands on ... Deficient personality ... Original sentence excessive and the result of an unbalanced process ... Too much judicial emotion ... Pep-talk to the media on reporting sentences ... Victims still largely penniless ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Feb192021

Empty gaffs on Martin Place

Covid puts a false gloss on chamber's accounts ... Directors in and out ... Explanatory memo to members ... Creative fiction and negative expenses ... Big pile of unpaid floor fees ... Refreshments cut 

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Thursday
Feb182021

Counsel's advice on spinach puffs

Enduring a miserable scholarship ceremony ... How the victim of a Westpac bank robbery restored Barely Legal's faith in the pinstripe prison ... The informative Uber driver ... Two canapés too many 

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Wednesday
Feb172021

The three percent

Easy leader ... Melbourne silk's dominant brain ... Thought processes divided into four categories ... Porter's ball management ... AG's top agenda items for 2021 ... The vision splendid ... Theodora reports 

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