Debacle in Beijing " The story of a blind Chinese lawyer's flight to the US Embassy in Beijing is likely to ignite accusations and recriminations until the US presidential election in November. But what few will acknowledge is a harsher truth: ...

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increasing numbers of representatives who have worked as lawyers, businesspeople or are career politicians. ...

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is never far off when it comes to art”. In 2003 Delvoye consulted lawyers about the possibility of selling ...

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on Capitol Hill). Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann, an evangelical lawyer, congresswoman and mother of five ...

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Scott Ludlam; and the newcomers elected in 2010 – South Australian lawyer and academic Penny Wright, ... and the party’s first Queensland senator, environmental lawyer Larissa Waters. They are hardworking, idealistic ...

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Life after the Intervention Paul Toohey Barry Driver is not a spo ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Tried and found wanting "Behind a huge bulletproof screen sit judges, lawyers and three wizened former leaders of the Khmer Rouge. In their 80s, the defendants may be the last people to be prosecuted over the deaths of at least 1.7m people." ...

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lawyer in his trial of 1996, Paul Galbally, also told the court Assange had been enrolled in about twelve ...

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Nick Bryant On the morning of Sunday, 25 November 2007, Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman woke with the prerogative, if not perhaps ...

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politically conscious: his father, one of South Africa’s leading defence lawyers, worked on prominent cases ... Kentridge was expected to become a lawyer himself, and presumably to fight for social justice through ...

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in a hotel and gets his lawyer to file a corruption suit and an assault and battery suit. Got to be a few bad ...

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companies. Meanwhile, lawyers are seeing a new niche, insurers are reluctant to cover negligent drivers, ...

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to the asylum-seeker issue before she’s picked up the phone, or checked with the lawyers that the plan is legal – ...

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lawyer goes to jail. Like the image of a prancing matador being hoist to the heavens on the horns ... than scruples. As a clever and high-profile criminal defence lawyer, Fraser was a one-man ... the celebrated miniseries Blue Murder in 1995, Killing Time tells the tale of a lawyer out of control, up ...

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A Correspondence with Clive James Paola Totaro U nfortunately my health is indecent at the moment. I’m in ...

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Robert Fisk: It's not the brutality that is systematic, it's the lying about it "Get a lawyer, I said. Tell Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. Let me write about it. When I called at the British base at Basra airport, one officer laughed ...

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lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt of being “a professional Aborigine … despite looking almost as German ...

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prosecutor, criminal defence lawyer and Queens Counsel, before being appointed to the Supreme Court last year. ...

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prosecutor, criminal defence lawyer and Queens Counsel, before being appointed to the Supreme Court last year. ...

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the lawyer who prosecuted King Charles I in the treason trial that led to his execution. David Williamson ... to be attacking the notion any longer.” Mark Stephens, one of London’s top media lawyers, says Robertson’s ... Foot once said that if it had been up to the judges, there’d be few freedoms in Britain. “Lawyers ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2011-09-07 10:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Turkey on trial "In a series of bizarre prosecutions, Turkish courts have jailed hundreds of defendants – military officers, journalists, academics, and lawyers – for allegedly plotting to topple the country’s democratically elected government. The cases ...

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the prime minister, and a lot of labourers earn more than lawyers and treat Bali as a third home – the other ...

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lawyer Shamini Flint has written of an expat facing a similar fate. In this Sydney Writers’ Festival ...

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The Strauss-Kahn case: Sizing up a legal clash "Mr. Strauss-Kahn has hired a high-priced legal team, including a big-name lawyer who has lectured on the art of cross-examination. The team has hired investigators to check out the woman’s past, ...

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were scrupulously careful to include his side of the story. We arranged with his lawyer to delay ...

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