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2.4KHistoryScientology …
Evan Whitton notes that the Scientology “church” crops up now and again via people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and even Jamie...
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1.3KCoroner & Legal
Judges pervert …
Evan Whitton recalls a Rugby coach’s amazing fall, a US legal academic’s disclosure that judges pervert, a Law Lord’s ignorance; ditto an...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Famous historian inaccurate on Napoleon …
Evan Whitton gently corrects him … Andrew Roberts’ Napoleon The Great (Penguin 2015) is 936 pages set in 8.98 on 12.15 Sablon....
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936Economy
Two of Us: A beautiful love story …
*Pic: Janie Barratt’s brilliant picture … capturing … a love affair … Evan Whitton, 87, is journalistic royalty. A five-time Walkley Award...
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1.5KEconomy
Footfalls echo in the memory …
Thomas Evan Whitton and the former Bernice Margaret Collopy with their sons Evan (left) and Richard. These companion pieces reflect the horror...
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997Coroner & Legal
Abbott is of course not the only liar in public life …
*Pic: Tony Abbott … not the only liar … Dot-joiner Evan Whitton looks at ways of diminishing the number of: 1) Lies...
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1.0KCoroner & Legal
The genius of the common law …
Evan Whitton says the law has always been a highly profitable joke. This from Justinian (A REASONABLE DOUBT FOR A REASONABLE PRICE)...
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1.5KCoroner & Legal
Legal persons at risk for cartel conduct
Rodney Sims, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), said on 25 March: “… there are civil and criminal penalties...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
A history of two legal systems in 700 words …
*Pic: of William Blackstone … serial liar … People can lie; circumstances cannot. – Legal maxim The systems are the adversary system...
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1.4KEconomy
Four Cases …
A little bit mad; only a little bit guilty. This is Evan Whitton’s revised version of a piece on diminished responsibility which...
