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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
Jan212020

Morrison, God and Climate

• DateTuesday, January 21, 2020

Government makes climate change noises, but no pressing need for a more urgent policy setting ... Fools paradise persists ... God will show the way as science takes the backseat ... Miracles galore ... Inspiration from Trump ... The editor comments  

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Tuesday
Jan212020

The torpor twins

• DateTuesday, January 21, 2020

ACT Supreme Court's slow-coach judges ... Even in retirement the suffering continues ... Gone but not forgotten ... Delays wreaking havoc on litigants ... From Artemus Jones 

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Monday
Jan202020

Frost bite

• DateMonday, January 20, 2020

Liberal Party's misleading tricks in Kooyong and Chisholm ... Corflutes to heaven ... Full Feds finds the dodgy signage didn't swing enough votes to make a difference ... Fresh meaning for the phrase "likely to mislead" ... Judges tread wearily on political rorts ... Christmas Eve judgment that deserves attention ... Alan Zheng to the rescue 

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Friday
Jan172020

Courting climate intervention

• DateFriday, January 17, 2020

Can and should the courts intervene on climate policy? ... Gloucester Resources and the "first wave" of climate litigation ... Judicial delicacy about putting a toe on the legislative patch ... European Human Rights Convention applied in upholding government's duty for a stronger mitigation effort ... Intergenerational equity ... Nathan Twibill reports 

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Tuesday
Jan142020

Impeachment and other crimes

• DateTuesday, January 14, 2020

What about all the other impeachable offences? ... No immunity for impeachment crimes ... Trump remains unchastened ... Fair elections cauterised by the Supreme Court ... War criminals to the rescue ... Judgeships for ideologues and party hacks ... From Roger Fitch in Washington

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Friday
Jan102020

Myrmidons and dancing bears

• DateFriday, January 10, 2020

What is it about the Murdoch media and climate? ... Riding the tiger of denialism ... Margaret Thatcher, with her Oxford science degree, saw the problem ... Ruination of our rivers, air, crops, stock and reef ... The political power of coal and zero tax ... Doc Evatt showed how political courage worked ... Procrustes explains 

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Friday
Dec202019

A shaggy dog story

• DateFriday, December 20, 2019

A Christmas helping of apprehended bias from Judge Sal Vasta ... More shouting, rudeness, anger, and overbearing conduct ... Expense and delay as the case has to start again ... Transcript ... Judicial embarrassment ... Sal's sorry history 

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Friday
Dec202019

Decency in the counterfactual

• DateFriday, December 20, 2019

Life's tough at HWL Ebsworth ... Salary partner booted by Juan when billings dropped ... No need to have a meeting of equity partners ... Benefit of incumbency vanishes ... Court of Appeal chops the damages by 72% ... Happy Christmas ... Nathan Twibill reports on round two of the Martinez and Griffiths stoush 

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Thursday
Dec192019

Verdict from the prosecutor

• DateThursday, December 19, 2019

Former judge Greg Woods reviews Frank & Fearless a memoir by former NSW DPP Nicholas Cowdery ... Policy intervention on drugs and mandatory sentencing ... Prosecutor in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Lionel Murphy cases ... Symmetry with Murphy's progressive views ... Salvos from the mothball fleet ... The Gordon Wood case ... Law reform 

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