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Christian Brothers run for cover ... No money in the till for sexual abuse survivors ... Hiding the assets ... Church scheme for a blanket moratorium on litigation has come unstuck ... Looking for a "proper defendant" ... Silks picnic ... From our Goings On Desk The Blessed Edmund Rice: remembered in Ireland The Christian Brothers raped and sexually assaulted children on such an immense scale of depravity that they have run out of money.

Law shop moved into the PR business ... Evolution of reputation panel beaters into client flack merchants ... Spruiking vindication ... What vindication? ... Deed of settlement breached ... Unimpressive witness ... Outsized puffery from prominent solicitor ...

New venture for the Dice Man ... Another book under wraps ... Who will publish? ... No redemption through charitable works ... The judgment delays crusade ... Theodora reports The Three Musketeers: Jackboots, the Perfumed Planet, and Dicey Revarnishing a reputation takes more than publishing a learned tome on contracts ($250) and being invited to speechify at the Guild of Noble Bench Stackers.

Justice Gray: sorted out the magistrate’s mess Danielle Geelen, who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault causing harm following an incident at Mary’s Poppin nightclub in Adelaide, has successfully appealed her sentence. The South Australian Supreme Court found that the sentencing Magistrate, Justin Wickens, denied her procedural fairness, in part, by deciding the sentence on a different factual basis to that agreed by the parties – without notice.

Judge Black: miscarriage of justice In a unanimous judgment, the full bench of the WA Supreme Court overturned and ordered a retrial of two parents for the alleged mistreatment of their 17-year-old daughter. One of the successful grounds of appeal was that the trial judge, Linda Black DJC, erred by refusing the defendant mother’s application for an adjournment due to her acute case of food poisoning or gastro which caused her to vomit so much that the court ran out of bags to contain it.

Transcription update ... Money for jam ... AGS lawyers dropped in by parachute ... Senior flack position for courts and tribunal ... "Hero judge" mooted for NACC ... Courtney Docket files from courtside Everything is in hand. It’s true. The federal courts’ transcript business has moved back onshore, out of the hands of unapproved, sub-continental third-parties – at least for now.

Closed government ... If Albo and the AG cannot defenestrate FOI by legislation, they can do so by starvation ... Non-existent evidence used to throttle applications ... Attorney General AWOL on big ticket reforms ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra While the federal budget has caused enormous distress to those who don’t like having their tax benefits reduced, little to no attention has been paid to the slash-and-burn operation affecting the tottering edifice of open government.

One of these days these boots are goin' to walk all over you ... Grief at the Federales in the wake of Justice Jackboots' emphatic spray ... Judicial delays a critical issue ... Puisne judge asserting himself... High Court also blitzed for treading on parliament's toes... Law of Rulers ... Courtney Docket reports The corridors of the Federal Court are bristling with schadenfreude and recriminations following Justice Jackboots wholesale public evisceration of his slowcoach colleagues.

Clock counting down on large debt claimed by former Baker McKenzie partner ... Breakup of Kazakhstan-based firm as former colleagues peeled off to a rival business with partnership assets ... Australian lawyers abroad ... Two decades of litigation later ... Mae Milne has the latest Genghis Khan aka Temujin Over 20 years of litigation seem to have finally caught up with John Emmott, who is struggling to pay a judgment debt of £4,377,565 ordered by the High Court of England and Wales.

America at war with itself ... Jackie Robinson broke down segregation in baseball ... Later to become a pawn to discredit the civil rights campaigner, Paul Robeson ... The Red Scare ... America's sad dance with race ... Anti-communism used to support racial discrimination ... Sport and politics ...