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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 Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ...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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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 Foreign Desk (9)

Friday
Jan312025

Rome is burning

• DateFriday, January 31, 2025

Giorgia Meloni's right-wing populist regime threatens judicial independence ... Moves to strip constitutional independence of La Magistratura ... Judges on the ramparts ... The Osama Almasri affair ... Silvana Olivetti reports 

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Monday
Nov252024

A trial for France

• DateMonday, November 25, 2024

French teacher beheaded after showing caricatures of Mohammed to the class ... Young student's false claim ends in tragedy ... Misinformation takes off on social media ... Media storm ... Religion infiltrates public life ... Trials unfold ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Wednesday
Nov062024

Huis clos

• DateWednesday, November 6, 2024

Public glare on rape trial in France ... Survivor demands the proceedings be open ... The spectacle of misery ... Unsettling details ... Traumatising complainants ... The case of Gisèle Pelicot ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Tuesday
Mar072023

Red Sea tempest

• DateTuesday, March 7, 2023

Legal eruptions in Israel ... Spurious justification for usurping the authority of the Supreme Court ... Judicial review rendered useless ... Bibi's "home free" card ... Neutering the constitution ... New mechanism for politicised judicial appointments ... Black Robes on the barricades ... Max Shanahan reports  

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Tuesday
Jan312023

Keane to serve

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

Former High Court justice Pat Keane takes up a spot on Hong Kong's final court ... British judges bail out ... Rule of law under constant assault ... Overseas judges excluded from sensitive security cases ... Political meddling with the HK legal profession ... Lawyers flee ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Dec292022

ICC defence lawyers revolt

• DateThursday, December 29, 2022

Defence counsel's shabby pay and conditions at the International Criminal Court ... Legal aid negotiations dragging on indefinitely ... Pay stuck at 2013 level ... An unbalanced system ... The bench decidedly frosty ... Silence in the court ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Dec022022

The captured court

• DateFriday, December 2, 2022

Corporate influence targets top US judges ... Dark Money funding access to SCOTUS ... Ethics violations undisturbed ... Federalist Society turnstile ... Feedback loop ... Hunting expeditions ... Leaks of conservative-religious court decisions ... Clarence & Ginni - nothing to see here 

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Wednesday
Nov022022

On the rack

• DateWednesday, November 2, 2022

UN's torture inspectors turn tail ... Rebuffed in Queanbeyan ... Snail like progress on compliance system ... Funding snafu ... Australia's new human rights agenda takes a hit ... Max Shanahan with the story 

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Friday
Sep302022

Down with the Magyar judges

• DateFriday, September 30, 2022

How Viktor Orbán and Hungary's right wing populists have choked the independence of the judiciary ... Legislative "reforms" ... Step-by-step creation of an "Illiberal-Christian Democracy" ... Constitutional Court neutered ... Roadmap to autocracy ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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