Congressional fallout

A Republican majority in the House likely to end in usual bout of resentment for the GOP ... Election threw up a few crooks and charlatans ... An American soldier can shoot in the battlefield, but it's a war crime if someone shoots back ... Review into whether charges against David Hicks were defective ... Wheels fell off Ghailani trial in Manhattan because the CIA tortured the accused ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington

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I Spry

Ian Spry's application to rejoin Victorian bar has been met with a lengthy "please explain" ... Bar Council concerned about allegations of inappropriate behaviour ... Money to burn

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Bloody Mary

Cigarette smoking, champagne swigging Mary Gaudron brought much needed gusto and bluntness to the phlegmatic males who inhabited the High Court ... Sir Anthony Mason was one of those males and this week he launched a biography of Gaudron by the Canberra lawyer Pamela Burton - From Moree to Mabo ... Theodora reports 

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Making the law fit

J.J. Spigelman says it's easy for judges to make the law fit the result they want ... Plenty of froufrou can be conjured to enhance the judicial image ... Tulkinghorn opines on the secret lives of judges ... The curtain opens for a minute

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Clutz case done in Styles

Mediation to commence in the sexual harassment case brought by solicitor Bridgette Styles against the big law shop Clayton Utz

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Departing judge flings CJ into Rich Hill horse manure

Justice Bill Wilson saved himself and the NZ judiciary further embarrassment when last month he resigned from the Supreme Court ... On the way out he dumped the country's chief justice Dame Sian Elias in the horse merde

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Mrs Kissel stirs debate on foreign barristers

Murder by milkshake ... Foreign counsel to the fore in retrial of rich banker's wife for murder of control freak husband ... Overseas barristers can help develop the local bar - but only in moderation ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong

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Leverhulme at Chatsworth

Health & safety music hall jokes under review ... "Ginger Rodent" insult from former equality priestess ... Lady Dorothy's mother ... Holed-up in the Hunting Tower at Chatsworth ... London Calling

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Beware of barristers bearing free rooms

Uproar in Martin Place as a third of 15 Wardell peels off  ... ACCC wants to know more about clerks for Vic barristers ... French CJ, the lady in green and Grecian 2000 on display at the Art Gallery of NSW ... Theodora reports

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The constipated ostrich and the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal

Percy is waiting to try a dish of ostrich ... Sir Anthony Mason is the bright star of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ... The most prolific of the non-permanent judges

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Worst of the worst

Boy soldier Omar Khadr pleads guilty before Guantanamo Military Commission ... Plea deal saves the US the  embarrassment of conducting the "trial" of a boy soldier ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree report

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Seizing control of the politburo

New Supreme Court term … Political gold rush flows from Citizens United … Tea Party nutters … Government plan to assassinate US citizen goes to court … Torture case against Boeing subsidiary overturned ... Roger Fitch files from Washington

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Serious injury and issue estoppel

Vic Parliament rides to the rescue to save the VWA's bacon ... No more issue estoppels for you ... Juries to be mushroomed ... Barry Lane reports on the latest from accident compo world

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Bloody Sunday

Evan Whitton advises on how to run a commission of inquiry ... Special prosecutor absolutely essential ... Voices from the past - Mike Ahern and Doug Drummond ... Lord Widgery's cover-up ... Saville The Stonecutter

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One nation under God

The Pledge ... Blogging judges ... Three strikes ... And other lunacies of the US justice system ... Pillsbury Flom reports 

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Judges open their veins

Much ado stirred by Sydney Morning Herald's series on judges at work and play ... On the record and unexpurgated ... How will we ever shut them up now?

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Criteria for silk still unfair

NSW silk selection reforms have not gone far enough, says Alexander Street SC ... The process still needs fundamental reform  ... Just when the bar council was patting itself on the back for a job well done, along comes a fresh broadside from an insider

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On the Road to Damascus

New-old stuff from Spiggsy Spigelman CJ ... The four categories of judicial personalities ... Introducing the Vincent Index ... Soapy Brandis conjures some constitutional thoughts

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Judicial flat earthers clinging to the edge

There is more litigant satisfaction in Baden-Württemberg than in New South Wales ... Cases are conducted more quickly and at less cost ... The Marfording report on civil litigation picks-up where the ALRC failed to take off ... Tulkinghorn reports

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Lawyers, guns and wildlife

Map of Tasmania ... Huge damages threatened against police for refusal to allow famous Tasmanian barrister to shoot animals from his Porsche ... Excrement on golf course fairways ... Native hens don't scare easily - they will need to be shot

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