Say sorry

No costs when offer of compromise has grammatical errors ... Apologise to Wal, insists Antagonistic ... Clients get money back from national law shop 

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Bring on the cakes

Map of Tasmania ... Minimal laughter at editor's oration to magistrates ... Lingering questions unanswered ... Ellis case 

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Fresh phlegm

Expectoration in Phillip Street ... Keys hands in his key at St James Hall ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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From the bear pit

Labor barrister returns to NSW parliament ... Collier's by-election victory rescues Opposition Leader John Robertson from caucus coup ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell recalls Keating's anti-Robbo spray 

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Pineapple Pol

Updated on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Justinian

Vroom, Vroom ... Qld magistrates go on red alert for bikie menace ... Court of Appeal to decide on separation of powers ... Or will appeal judges do "what the community wants"? 

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Operatic costume change

Defamatorium ... Kim Williams lawyers-up against the newspaper his lawyers used to defend ... Opera House hissy fit denied ... Working both sides of Libel Street ... It's not over till the fat lady sings 

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Vic Supremes bungy jump experiment

Out of the closet ... Vic Supremes showing its face to the world ... NSW CJ skeptical about social media ... Different approaches to handling spreading the rule-of-law message ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Terrorist haberdashers

Rich pickings to be had from new season at the Supremes ... All aboard for questioning on the high seas ... NY trials for alleged embassy bombers ... What to do with all the evesdropped information? ... IT problems for defence counsel at Guantánamo ... Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch, reports 

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Entertainment boutiques brace for the next act

Entertainment law field not crowded but full of "pretenders" ... Technology, not competition, the real game changer ... Paul Karp surveys the specialist firms with glamour-puss clients  

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All the Queen's horses

The Wyles One touting new numbers favouring QC option for Yarraside bar ... Five percent speak ... Sydney barrister Greg Curtin issues bar election manifesto: solicitors can be bad for the administration of justice

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On your bike

Foul mouthed Queensland lawyer sent, again, to the Bureau de Spank ... Doesn't care, as he says he's about the retire ... Doug and his Winning ways ... SA Supreme Court says public confidence in the legal profession is of the utmost importance ... Oops, they much have forgotten the hit-and-run case of Eugene McGee 

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Whyte man's burden

Unsatisfactory professional conduct … Delayed flight ... Trial missed … Trouble getting off sub-tropical island ... Conferenceville ... Rest and recreation ... Egregious error 

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Another date with The Sheik

Eddie (The Sheik) Obeid returns to ICAC on October 28 ... Circular Quay leases under the microscope ... Has Carl (Sparkles) Scully's payback time arrived? ... Macquarie Street gumshoe Alex Mitchell exhumes the details  

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Corporal punishment

Rough end of the pineapple ... Queensland government binging on bikie laws ... Chief Madge herding his flock on bikie bail ... Boy attorney general's VLAD legislation … Peanut gallery for Tasmanian DPP's negligent driving hearings 

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Soapy Watch

New AG to protect judges from free speech attacks ... Silence on announcements should not detract from exciting policy initiatives ... Polly Peck reports 

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Salon de Refusés

Selection of new silks ... An odd arrangement that rewards and divides the bar ... The relative importance of popularity and outstanding achievement ... A fresh round of humiliation ... Ginger Snatch reflects  

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Out in the midday sun

Things can only get worse ... Courts in a muddle about technology ... Dame Heather Hallett on Australian subtlety ... Parliament Hall, Edinburgh ... Professional liability barrister authors recipes for Proper Puddings ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Pride and Prejudice

Failed application to remove Justice Kate McMillan from Victorian damages case against The Age ... Lengthy regurgitation of transcript ... Trying to get focus ... Failure to make notes ... Lack of judicial eye contact ... Misapplication of the word "garlic" ... Curt and non-embracing ... Alix Piatek reports 

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By George

A rorters catalogue ... RIP "Sir" Arthur George ... Soapy George Brandis and his slippery expense claims ... Wedding business and a sense of entitlement ... New attorney general crippled at the start

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More blockbusters coming to you

Israel given unfiltered NSA data ... All phone calls in the US are "relevant to terrorism" ... Defence contractor successfully sues torture victims for costs ... NY designates city mosques as "terrorism enterprises" ... US Supremes in need of a code of conduct ... Nixon on judicial appointments ... Roger Fitch files from the town in the process of shutting down  

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