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The donations button has been fixed…

March 11, 2010 – 12:19 am

… Many thanks to the people who were kind enough to tell us it was busted, as we would never have found out otherwise. We’re not in the habit of checking. With any sort of luck it is now clever enough to spot whether you are in Australia or the UK (where most of our [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Events, General | Comments (0)

A Welcome to Lawyers’ Weekly readers

March 4, 2010 – 5:03 am

Some of the people who write this blog are actually organised. I, alas, am not one of them.
Unbeknown to me, this blog was prominently featured in this week’s issue of leading trade magazine Lawyers’ Weekly. The article discusses several sites across Ozblawgistan, including Stephen Warne’s professional negligence blog (you’ll notice he’s featured on LE’s blogroll) [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Law, Media | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Sunday Funnie and Open Discussion Thread

February 22, 2010 – 2:30 am

Iran’s supreme leader has denied it is developing nuclear weapons, after a new report from the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, sparked an international outcry.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said any fears were “baseless” as Iranians’ beliefs “bar us from using such weapons”.
The blunt report raised concerns Iran was working on nuclear weapons.
Russia said it was “very [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Free Speech, Funnies, General | Comments (10)

Bloggers, journalists and the law

January 15, 2010 – 6:08 pm

Richard Ackland has an interesting piece in the SMH on the laws protecting journalists versus the laws protecting bloggers, with some thoughts about the blurred line between journalism and blogging as well. He says:
Justice William Gummow of the High Court asked the question last year during an appeal in Ray Chesterton’s defamation action against 2UE: [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Free Speech, Law, Media, Popular culture, Society | Comments (6)

Wowsers are Winning

December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm

Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports:
The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.
But [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Society | Tagged , , | Comments (24)

Taking a break

October 29, 2009 – 10:13 am

I’m not recovering from pneumonia as well as I ought to be, and thus I’m going to take a break from everything for a week or two. See you in a week (hopefully I’ll feel much better then).
If you want something interesting to read in the meantime, have a look at this article from New [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Personal | Comments (11)

Weekend open thread and general sickie whinge

October 16, 2009 – 7:02 pm

Open threads/weekend forums have long been a fixture at Larvatus Prodeo and Catallaxy. We’ve never done them here on the grounds that we thought other blogs already did an admirable job on that front. However, after a couple of requests from regulars — and due to the fact that Legal Eagle is spectacularly sick at [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in General | Comments (60)

Ah, but we know what’s good for you!

September 29, 2009 – 8:31 am

I’d made some effort to ignore the latest inter-blog political stoush, but when I saw Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony who (unlike many people on all sides of politics in Australia) actually has something between her ears defending Robert Manne (quite possibly the rankest intellectual bully in Australia), I knew something was up.
In short, [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, England, Fark!, Law, The Left | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (138)

Rattling the chipped enamel cup…

September 28, 2009 – 7:16 pm

For reasons unknown, it seems that people have decided that the last week or so is donation time, and we’ve had three donations land in the tip jar. We are very grateful to you all; it is handy to know that we’re not boring our readers to tears or driving them around the bend. With [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Events, General | Comments (5)

Sticks and stones…

August 20, 2009 – 9:09 pm

I seem to be building up rather a niche in posts on blogging, social networking, defamation and privacy law. Cases are springing up like mushrooms.
I’ve written before about the outing of “NightJack”, a policeman whose blog became immensely popular. It seemed to me that the development of outing pseudonymous bloggers was a rather sad one. [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Free Speech, Internet, Law, Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments (16)