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A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ... 

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      The Commission has finalised its investigation into Walter Sofronoff's disclosures to Janet Albrechtsen and the leaking of the Drumgold report ... Procedural fairness ... Six weeks for feedback from the parties in the frame
    • Balls & Strikes
      Clarence Thomas brings a lifetime of experience to complex Supreme Court case
    • The Guardian
      The destruction of daily life in Gaza is so devastating that it could give rise to a new war crime, "domicide"
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      Attorneys General considering High Court's Bird decision ... Bid to create retrospective vicarious liability for institutional abuse
    • Andrew Farran in Pearls & Irritations
      The release of the Iraq war papers and what we are not told ... Government decisions that endanger our national security
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Litigation's artful delays ... From Justinian's archive ... April 22, 2014 ... Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case  ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Feb162023

The Eagle has landed

• DateThursday, February 16, 2023

Fees please ... Barrister's billing sliced and diced as unfair and unreasonable ... Judge unhappy with thousands of pages of documents ... Associated costs blowout ... Max Shanahan reports 

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