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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
Feb132020

What's on Porter's plate?

Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Feb122020

60,000 years later

The High Court grapples with the First Australians as aliens ... Legal minefield ... No joint judgments here ... Blood, country and belonging ... The unique position of Aboriginal Australians ... Section 51 ... Mabo (No 2) ... Powerful judgments ... Culture warriors on the ramparts ... Artemus Jones analyses each of the seven judgments 

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Friday
Feb072020

L'état, c'est Trump

Impeachment and acquittal ... Sham trial ... Dubious defence lawyers with incoherent arguments ... Constitutional nonsense ... A mess that John Roberts CJ helped create ... Torture lawyers still peddling their soiled wares ... Roger Fitch reports from the wasteland of Washington

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Friday
Jan312020

Dubious developments on the Torrens

Court of Appeal for Crow Eaters ... Flummery from a vacuous attorney general ... Judge shortage ... Secret report on botched Keogh trial ... Payouts piling up ... Justice becomes the plaything of politicians ... Procrustes writes from the nation's murder capital 

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Friday
Jan312020

Lifting the lid on Kerr's coup

Sir John Kerr's correspondence in the High Court ... Submissions in the Archives case ... Commonwealth property or personal property ... What is being hidden? ... Accessing governor general's letters about the sacking of the Whitlam government ... Bret Walker v Stephen Donaghue ... Alan Zheng sifts through the paperwork 

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Thursday
Jan302020

Crêpes Suzette

Bad tempered Madge ticked-off in the Queensland District Court ... Misunderstanding basic legal requirements on multiple occasions ... Fundamental errors ... Flawed costs order ... Inappropriate behaviour from the bench ... Petulant sprays ... Sucking eggs ... The works ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Jan282020

Circus Court's procedural snafu

Justice Debra Mortimer goes to town on "certain Federal Circuit Court judges" who make it a "common practice" to deliver written reasons after the appeal time has expired ... Canine court "interactions" ... Tasmanian briefs lured by the idea that life will be better if the royal trinket is reinstated ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Jan272020

Lynching by lawyers

Just Mercy ... Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative ... Saving the misrepresented from death row ... Black men presumed guilty in America's south ... Racist legal system ... Dirty prosecution tricks ... Frying flesh... Miss Lumière at the movies 

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Thursday
Jan232020

The poor must pay

Harsh life for struck-off solicitor ... A cult member who got onto pills and drugs ... Liquor store robberies ... A desire to return to prison ... Court of Appeal thinks robbery is incompatible with legal practice ... Forget rehabilitation, paying the Law Society's costs is more important ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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