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Law of dispossession
Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at...
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Limbo
Cold case opened - then shut ... Young Aboriginal girl goes missing from a bleak outback town ... Police indifference and brutality ... Miss Lumière reviews Ivan Sen's masterful new film Limbo...
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Peter Lyons
Leverhulme RIP ... UK-based correspondent for Justinian dies unexpectedly ... Wonderful writer, a creative teacher, skilled advocate, scholar and friend ... Tribute to Peter Lyons ... By Richard...
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Law 20.1.2
Cricket and constitutional government ... The jurisprudence of dead balls ... Jurisdiction ... Lawn bowls c.f. cricket ... Ethical consistency ... Democratic inclinations ... Bazball ... Cricketing...
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Leon Zwier
Melbourne lawyer Leon Zwier On The Couch ... Honouring the legacy of a former partner ... The hour of need - assisting Brittany Higgins and Eryn Jean Norvill ... The misuse of documents obtained...
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How to Kill a Client
Big Law ... Murder, money and misogyny ... Dealing with an unspeakable client ... Too much testosterone ... Crime thriller from Joanna Jenkins - someone who knows where the bodies are buried ... Book...
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Tassie Tiger's Last Race
Peter Lyons RIP ... Leverhulme's trackside send-off ... "Advokkacy forever" ... York as Shangri La ... Racehorses ... Training lawyers ... Poetry ... A huge fan club at the parade ring ... Funeral...
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Suzie Miller
A writer on fire ... New plays, TV series, films and a novel ... The lawyer turned playwright ... The importance of Prima Facie ... Sexual assault trials ... Violence in the prison system ... The sport...
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Larceny and fine wine
Wine thievery is all the rage ... Expensive bottles lifted from their rightful owners ... Product that is easily on-sold or fenced ... Top end drops now snugly located in Sydney's legal district, under...
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Finn's finale
Paul Finn ... Former federal judge and serious academic ... 1946-2023 ... Equitable duties and good government ... The outsider who should have gone to the High Court ... Lunching connections ... The...
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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...
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Creative possibilities for the law of torts
Barbara McDonald - the high priestess of torts and privacy ... Former torts law professor at the University of Sydney ... What's on the horizon for the development of privacy and other torts ... The...
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Julian Burnside
A barrister, much of whose career has been in the public eye ... Counsel to the rich and the deprived ... Flirting with politics ... Career change ... Retirement ... Relaxation and writing await ... On...
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Grant Donaldson SC
High profile Sand Groper from the WA bar n' grill is On the Couch ... Films, music, books ... Cases and crimes ... Preventative detention in migration cases ... Closed courts ... Eyes shut yet still...
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Cobras in the courtroom
Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia, by Simon Butt ... The problems go right the way to the top ... Corruption ... Inadequate reasoning ... Bribes ... Intimidation ... Judicial mafia ... Cases under the...
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Winners and grinners
Smiling policy for lawyers ... Better coordination required ... When smiling runs amok ... Happy lawyers and glum clients ... Delighted clients and anxious lawyers ... Moments of intense seriousness...
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Veneto Verona Vino
Know your Valpolicellas ... Justinian's wine correspondent let loose in the vineyards of Veneto ... Thomas Becket and Mozart get together ... The perfect drop with stew and polenta ... Lots going on in...
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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,...
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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...
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The election season
The case for compulsory voting ... Pity the Brits, French and Americans where politicians have to "get out the vote" ... Nathan Twibill on the advantages of the "median voter" strategy ... Vote early,...
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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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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 &...
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Tootsies with Planet Janet
Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of...
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Drumgold cleared
SCOOP ... Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council ... Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct ... Major year-long...
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Vale Percy Allan AM
Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art Percy Allan:...
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The great interceptor
Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ......
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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? ......
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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...
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Damien Carrick
Damien Carrick has presented Law Report on the ABC for 23 years ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests...
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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....
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