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      NSW District Court judge makes a formal complaint to the OLSC about DPP Sally Dowling ... Witnesses required to present their phones and passwords in criminal trials
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      Reynolds v Higgins ... Defamation claim ... Senator Reynolds' tear stained statement of claim
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      Costly tax advice from Brisbane brief ... Eye popping $50,000 a day
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      South Australian CJ stands firm against bar's request that he withdraw comments about the motivation opf people who want to be KCs
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      The role of chimpanzees in the development of the rule of law ... Walter Sofronoff's discursive speech ... One hour and 26 minutes ... Law of Rulers Institute
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It's too late for the thylacine ... Procrustes closely analyses recent Justinian reports ... The Ippster and Stella Liebeck ... Tort law reform that went beyond the Pale ... In Tassie, no one is allowed to speak for the forests ... Standing up against State rule of the trees ... Where's Syd Shea when you need him? ... Read more ... 

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Courtroom capers ... Federal Court's digital hiccups ... Principal Registrar in home run ... Pronunciation requirements for names and pre-nominate ... Elocution audit ... Common law shuffle in New South Wales ... Vicki Mole reports ... Read more ... 

"I think it's madness to change it. If you walked into a McDonald's hamburger restaurant and they started serving you seafood, you'd be very confused if you were a customer."

Newington College old boy Peter Thomas arguing against the school admitting female students ... Reported in Guardian Australia, June 21, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ... 

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The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Tom Hughes KC ... Choice cuts from Ian Hancock's biography of Tom Hughes, A Cab on the Rank ... A painful move from 11 Selborne ... Skyrocketing fees ... Great cases ... Lionel Murphy - "not an easy client" ... Diary observations of judges, barristers and bar etiquette ... From Justinian's Archive, August 11, 2016 ... Read more ... 

 

 

Friday
May102024

Strikings off

• DateFriday, May 10, 2024

Fit and proper ... Latest rulings from WA and NSW ... Solicitors attraction to other people's money ... Abject departure from the gold standard ... Anthony Kanaan looks at how unfit and improper you have to be in order to get de-rolled  

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Tuesday
May072024

Dark and Stormy times in the US of A

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Tuesday
May072024

Did Justice Lee get it wrong?

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

More on the omnishambles ... Holes in Justice Lee's Lehrmann findings on truth ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points 

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Thursday
May022024

Around town

, • DateThursday, May 2, 2024

Punctuation advice from Vic's bar ... Feds throw the book at library marriage ... Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation ... Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime ... Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil ... Hands up for silk in Aotearoa ... Theodora's latest rounds 

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Tuesday
Apr302024

Other Voices, Other Rooms

• DateTuesday, April 30, 2024

Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board 

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Friday
Apr262024

Great contributions to litigation

• DateFriday, April 26, 2024

Tribute to the hopeless litigant ... Vito, vitare, vitavi, vitatus ... Vexatious fighter moves to another jurisdiction ... Trail of exasperation and failure ... End of a headache ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Wednesday
Apr242024

Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank

• DateWednesday, April 24, 2024

Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Friday
Apr192024

Judges on the tear

• DateFriday, April 19, 2024

Priceless ... District Court chief judge takes a bow on the way out ... Leading lights of the law clamouring for bottles of Chateau d' Price ... Justice David Hammerschlag goes to the movies ... New release out now ... Theodora does the rounds 

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Thursday
Apr182024

Plus ça change

• DateThursday, April 18, 2024

Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files 

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