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News from the Rialto ... According to our sources a TV series called Defo, starring Rachel Griffiths, is in development ... About a lawyer who sets up an all-female set of barristers' chambers in Melbourne specialising in defamation and media misbehaviour ... 

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Letter from London ... Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

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Elon Musk on the importance of the outcome of the vote to fill a judicial vacancy on the Wisconsin Supreme Court ... Musk and his affiliated groups sunk $US21 million into supporting the unsuccessful conservative candidate ... April 1, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >> 


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The dark art of sham litigation ... Fraudulent litigation ... Bodgy debts to circumvent real creditors ... Defamation actions to wash money ... Moldovan courts to the rescue of Russian gangsters ... Italian divorces in Maidenhead ... From Justinian's Archive, January 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Entries in Books (11)

Wednesday
Feb192025

Daddy Dearest

Life at home with Chester Porter ... Great silk in Gutsy Girls revelation ... An unpredictable family story ... Love, poetry and sisterhood ... Behind the monkey mask ... Book review by Worm 

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Saturday
Jul202024

Something for true believers

Things you should know about the Australian Labor Party Nick ... History ... Tensions ... Triumphs ... Splits ... Where are the working class MPs? ... Braham Dabscheck reviews Dyrenfurth & Bongiorno's A Little History Of The Australian Labor Party ... Rats in the ranks 

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Wednesday
Jul102024

Jail lingo

Prison patois ... Underworld lexicography ... Important contribution to Australian English ... Wordologists' delight ... Bruce Moore's The 1972 Parramatta Jail Glossary ... Reviewed by Linda Funnell 

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Tuesday
Apr022024

Algorithmic injustices

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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Monday
Nov062023

Blood and greed

Book review ... Killing for Country: A Family Story ... The colonial land grab ... Entitlement capitalism and the transformation of Australia in the 19th century ... The killing fields of the Native Police ... Failure of the law ... The foundations of a nation's character ... Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck   

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Friday
Aug202021

The "academy" under assault

Book worm review by Anna Kretowicz... Who Gets to be Smart ... A broken education system propping-up the old world order ... The "truth" behind Rhodes and his scholars ... Production mill for elites ... Confusion and insecurities abound 

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Friday
May142021

RBG reincarnated

Insights into the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Towards a More Perfect Union ... The great sex discrimination abolitionist ... A supreme intellect at work ... Braham Dabscheck reviews a collection of RGB's speeches and key cases ... Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue 

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Monday
Mar122018

Hit the books 

Law librarians and knowledge gurus being retrenched across the industry ... DPP libraries not exempt from disruption ... The Archbold v Blackstone's stoush in the UK over criminal law services used at crown courts ... Jade goes it alone ... Nick Bonyhady reports from the silence of his law library 

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Monday
Jun052017

Publish and perish

The big law book publishers get a blast from author and editor Hugh Selby ... Overpriced products poorly marketed ... Impenetrable websites ... Connecting perfunctorily with authors and customers 

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