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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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Dec082020

No soft balls here

Important cases from The Dart ... The law of cricket ... Adults using a proper cricket ball ... The defence of illegality ... Guns in court ... Leverhulme's tribute to lord justice of appeal Roy Beldam 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

Those wicked press lords

Critiquing Bathurst CJ on defamation law ... World view from the plaintiff's corner ... Large corporate media interests trying to set the reform agenda ... Meddling with the common law ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Friday
Dec042020

Close to home

Rumours scotched that Family Court CJ is shifting chambers to Hobart ... Wild oysters are calling ... Hobart docket ... Sheriff leaves a door open at Nowra Court House - receiving more severe punishment than the escapee ... Top sheriff birched ... Attorney General goes schtum ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Dec022020

Burley Griffin's notebook

Ohh, that judgment ... ACT Law Society asks, "where are the reasons?" ... Judge scrambles out of retirement to deliver another door-stopper ... Profuse apologies for the loose ends ... Sexual assault by law lecturer means he's not fit and proper ... In London fresh findings about drunken sex and professional misconduct 

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Monday
Nov302020

Back to a brighter yesterday

Ticket for change sets about scrapping the changes ... Jabots in a tangle at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Email meltdowns ... Burning questions ... No nous for Nous ... Blandification of the bar ... "World class" barristerial biffo ... Peach Melba explains what went down 

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Tuesday
Nov242020

Graduating in the time of Covid

The exams are complete ... The degree finished ... But where's the riotous fun? ... A modest valedictory event, without dancing ... Graduation ceremony in doubt ... Preparing for a "man's world" with "Women in Law" ... Barely Legal's Anna Kretowicz blogs from Queensland  

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Friday
Nov202020

Time to woke-up

Mystery of the kiddie court tours ... School students' exposure to dangerous notions ... Trump-loving academic's batty predictions ... Magic Circle's fee spree ... Toast of the town ... Theodora's Goings On 

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Friday
Nov202020

Solicitors can do no wrong

Disciplinary apparatus found wanting … Law Society in Phillip Street goes down three times in one week … Lawyers off the hook at the Bureau de Spank … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Nov192020

Tasmanian affairs

Clarification on bestiality, Apple Isle style … A "specie" of buggery … Penetration essential … And, no opportunity for defence counsel to make submissions on sentencing … Finding of apprehended bias against Supreme Court judge … Janek Drevikovsky has news from The Map 

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