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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 ... 

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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
Mar222024

Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

• DateFriday, March 22, 2024

Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Friday
Mar152024

Slumbering snails

• DateFriday, March 15, 2024

Judges and their delays ... Agonising cogitations ... Trials derailed ... Start again ... Dreamers awake ... Award time for the coveted Golden Snail 

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Wednesday
Mar132024

Solicitor's swan song sounds in contempt

• DateWednesday, March 13, 2024

Trading without a ticket ... Manager appointed ... Obstruction and hinderance ... "Medical issues" ... Contempt ... One month's prison - suspended ... Not sorry ... Anthony-James Kanaan reporting 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

University turns tail on Drumgold

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

University of Canberra wilts in the heat ... Drumgold's academic appointment cancelled ... Unrelenting and biased media attacks ... Lily-livered university administrators ... From the newsletter 500 Words, or thereabouts 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

Yarraside - fresh agitation

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

Skirmish over how to spend $600,000 of barristers' money sitting in Victorian CJ's piggybank ... Tightwads are opposed to the Owen Dixon Memorial Childcare Centre ... Alarming problem if nippers are located where criminals are visiting their briefs ... Woke Wars ... Peach Melba reports 

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Monday
Mar112024

Sofronoff scuppered

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland 

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Monday
Mar112024

Dangerous concoctions

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

Fabricated cases cited to show instances where MinterEllison lawyers had been restrained from appearing ... AI possibly responsible ... Litigant fails in bid to block Minters and counsel from acting in long-running employment law battle ... Embellished misconduct claims ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Tuesday
Mar052024

Latest cancellations

• DateTuesday, March 5, 2024

Barrister skewered for taking a pro-Palestinian stand ... Referred to OLSC for "antisemitism" ... Lobby calls for deticketing ... The free speech brigade unhappy with free speech ... Sudden death syndrome ... Procrustes files 

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Tuesday
Mar052024

It was a dark and stormy night in the Shire

• DateTuesday, March 5, 2024

Throttling ... Cronulla love nest spirals out of control ... Qantas hostie overturns District Court findings on red neck injuries inflicted by a boozed solicitor ... Show cause ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Ginger Snatch reports  

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