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"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."

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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 ... 

 

 

Thursday
Apr182024

An omnibus of quotes

• DateThursday, April 18, 2024

Justice Lee and his Thesaurus ... Referencing the references ... Context and history ... The underlying warp and weft ... Words and meaning ... Byways of language ... Associate of judges Miss Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Apr122024

Merits review

, • DateFriday, April 12, 2024

AAT member's unzipped opinions ... Conservative elbows flailing in all directions ... Unrestrained by convention ... Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar ... Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs ... Fascination with gilded embroidery ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Apr112024

Celebrations at the Lubyanka

• DateThursday, April 11, 2024

NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges 

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Wednesday
Apr102024

News from the Rialto

• DateWednesday, April 10, 2024

A veteran litigant burning through solicitors ... Sydney barrister trading without a ticket ... A string of criminal accusations against the Victorian Supreme Court ... Latest in lamentable of legal follies and professional foibles ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Thursday
Apr042024

The greatest disaster since Oscar Wilde

• DateThursday, April 4, 2024

Unknown unknowns ... Known unknowns ... Where to next for Brucie Boy? ... Media mayhem ... Witness intimidation ... Hacks hacking at each other ... Harriet Harman and the world of implied undertakings ... From Ginger Snatch in the front row 

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Tuesday
Apr022024

Algorithmic injustices

• DateTuesday, April 2, 2024

Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice 

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Wednesday
Mar272024

Courtroom capers

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Trump ... Looking for the cash bond ... Lenders likely to be stiffed ... Supreme Court bends over for Trump ... Novel arguments for immunity ... Idiocy has its appeal ... From Washington, Roger Fitch reports 

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Wednesday
Mar272024

Happy ending?

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Thai massages ... Brittany Higgins private communications ... NACC looks at leaks to media hacks ... Contempt of court ... Hitting on Leon Zwier ... Vendetta ... New pastures for Whybrow ... The Federal Court and the defamation racket ... From our Chief City Correspondent 

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Sunday
Mar242024

It's customary

• DateSunday, March 24, 2024

Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files 

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