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"True to form, the ACT corruption watchdog has put itself at the centre of perceptions of bias with a finding against eminent former Queensland judge Walter Sofronoff KC that serves only to debase the definition of serious corrupt conduct."

The Australian with its unique perspective on "bias" ... March 22, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Entries in Procrustes (99)

Wednesday
Mar262025

Party time for Dicey

Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud 

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Wednesday
Feb262025

Protection rackets

Saloon's immunity spree ... No liability for advocates, churches, and judges ... Ponderous analysis ... Equality of courts in the food chain ... Sal Vasta's tantrum ... Judicial thoughts off limits ... Poor Wiggers ... Latest from Procrustes 

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Wednesday
Feb122025

Wake up call for woke busters

National Party pollies ape Trump's binary sex agenda ... Plane crashes caused by transgendered air traffic controllers ... What happens to an Australian passport marked X (instead or F or M) at US immigration? ... High Court and gender reassignment cases ... Procrustes references Tiresias The Blind 

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Sunday
Jan192025

Catching the backpay gravy train

Flour and baccy ... What happened to WA's one percent? ... Settlement of stockmen's missing wages in Qld ... Stolen wages case in WA ... Litigation funding ... Lawyers' fees ... Peanuts for the deprived ...  Procrustes reports 

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Friday
Nov292024

Bird on the wing

Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP 

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Friday
Nov152024

Between a Rock Chopper and a Hard Place

Church abuse survivor given the Bird ... High Court and the "agency" of Catholic priests ... No liability for predatory clerics ... How did we get to this? ... What would Peter McClellan think? ... Procrustes on the latest loophole for the church 

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Thursday
Nov072024

Stockpiling debts to donors

Corruption and all that ... Buying politicians on the cheap ... What's the quid pro quo ... The absurdities of Bridget McKenzie ... Remembering Alastair McAlpine ... School cadets - Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell ... Inspector lifts the skirts ... Procrustes on the beat 

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Friday
Oct182024

Bring me the head of Diego Garcia

Chagossians and their lost homeland ... British courts fail to deliver ... Stolen rocks in the Indian Ocean ... Common law's inability to deal with state power ... Enter the ICJ ... Handover to Mauritius ... Septics rule the waves ... Ilois keep off ... Procrustes on the perils of piracy 

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Tuesday
Sep032024

A judge created fantasy

The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Sanctity of the monarch ... Procrustes inveighs 

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