@GCS_Pottsy That was about the time I tuned out! It was a LOT.
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Michaela Whitbourn
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Michaela Whitbourn
@MWhitbourn
Legal affairs reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald. Connoisseur of fine puns. She/her [email protected]
Sydney Katılım Mart 2011
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@MWhitbourn Such a great character, who also got a starring role in the really, really wild early 2000s era when the station got blown up and the absolutely bizarre Superintendent Chandler goes nuts and is revealed as a rapist storyline.
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5 TV shows that explain me:
Press Gang
E Street
Sea Change
The Henderson Kids II
The Bill
David Rolph@dkrolph
5 TV shows that explain me: The Muppet Show To the Manor Born Prisoner Brideshead Revisited Murder, She Wrote
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@GCS_Pottsy I can still hear exactly how I would say Jack Meadows in my head! We also watched it together when I was a kid.
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@MWhitbourn It’s definitely up there! Instantly iconic. It was a family favourite of ours and was one of those things we all watched together when I was a kid and at school. It’s also led to years of Jack Meadows and Burnside impressions.
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@GCS_Pottsy It really does. It must be one of the most recognisable British theme tunes (although Doctor Who number one perhaps? Another show I love).
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@MWhitbourn The best! And so, so many great characters. The theme song also rocks.
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@GCS_Pottsy And that opening sequence with the feet on the beat? ICONIC!
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@MWhitbourn Wall-to-wall bangers. 80s-90s era The Bill holds up incredibly well.
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In one of her last judgments,
Judge Gibson grants an interlocutory injunction for, inter alia, invasion of privacy. I think this is the first published judgment under the new statutory tort for serious invasion of privacy. #auslaw #privacy caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/199a3…
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High Court throws out Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal bid #auslaw #defamation smh.com.au/national/high-…
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Sydney’s Hordern family, famed for retailing and infighting, back in court over will dispute #auslaw smh.com.au/national/nsw/s…
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I spoke to The Law Report about the public interest defence to defamation in Al Muderis v Nine #auslaw #defamation abc.net.au/listen/program…
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Michaela Whitbourn retweetledi
I am about to go in for another endo surgery because it is once again crippling - the amount of times I have had to work from bed while vomiting into something because if I took every day off that I needed, I wouldn't work two weeks of every month. And I'm lucky comparatively
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
'We can't stay silent over endometriosis struggle' bbc.in/4k3Rzkd
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@katywatson Australian barristerial English bowls up some oddities even for the locals!
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@MWhitbourn Ha that one I’ve heard of. I love that I’m still learning English while in Australia 😆
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I heard ‘in short compass’ for the first time in court today 🤯 interested to know if it’s another Australianism!
Michaela Whitbourn@MWhitbourn
Things barristers love to say, part one: “in short compass”, “the heel of the hunt”, “a matter for you”, “with respect” (when it means “with no respect”), and “my friend” (when it means “this idiot”).
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Why a multimillion-dollar legal boom is running out of steam #auslaw #defamation smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…
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I read every word and cried a bit too. Thank you Rick for being a top-drawer human who puts empathy at the centre of journalism - not ego.
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The Sydney juror, the murder trial and the employer’s threats #auslaw #contempt smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…
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Rolph quips that defamation has been a “disturbing personal obsession of mine since the 1990s”.
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Justice Gleeson says Rolph explains how the Federal Court of Australia has become “something of a magnet” for defamation litigation - a very pronounced trend nationally.
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High Court Justice Jacqueline Gleeson is launching the second edition of defamation guru @dkrolph’s tome on defamation law (Rolph on Defamation) in Sydney tonight. “With the proliferation of internet technologies, almost all of us are publishers,” Gleeson J says.
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Media exemptions could defang privacy law for royals, stars’ #auslaw #privacy smh.com.au/national/nsw/m…
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