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And the Landings at Suvla Bay (just to the north of ANZAC Cove) in August 1915 cost 20000 allied casualties, British, Irish and Indian troops The Nek, Lone Pine and Sari Bair were diversionary attacks to provide for the landings

The other thing to remember that as voting in the US isn't compulsory, the percentage of those indicating their preference for Halley may indicate a number of Republican leaning voters, who would not vote for Biden because he is a Democrat, would not vote for Trump. They'll stay at home

Perjury is defined as lying after giving an oath to tell the truth (sign a stat dec recentiy?) A barrister does not give evidence (unless they are a witness or charged) and therefore did not give an oath or affimation to the Court to tell the truth. A defendant who does not give evidence did...

The State cannot arbitrarily hold a person in custody without legal warrants issued by a Court to hold them A remand warrant is different to a warrant to hold a person in custody after being sentenced to a term of inprisonment if the remand prisoner wins the court case, he/she is released. If...

Barristers are not concerned about the "truth" They are there purely to debate the instructions given to them by their clients (both prosecution and defence) before a Judge, and this case, a Jury. They will test the evidence provided by the opposing party to create a narrative which hopefully...

A Court is meant to declare the amount of Pre-Sentence Detention that applies to the sentence upon sentencing. If no such declaration is made the Court may decrease the totality of the sentence by an amount equal to the period held on remand If the Court makes no declaration either way, the...

Do we start a Culture War about this? Is Trump identifying as a female? Have the redneck conservative Fundementalist Maga worked this out?

I don't disagree with most of your comments, but you forgot the major difference between a Criminal and Civil trial in this instance Bruce chose not to testify in the Criminal matter so his claims of "I didn't rape her" and his different reasons to attending for attending Parliament house were...

i note Bruce has withdrawn from participating in this this conference Well there's a $100 saved https://www.bettinaarndt.com.au/restoring-the-presumption-of-innocence-conference/

Read up on Voir Dire in the Courts. Any discussion or arguement on the admissibilaty of evidence in a Court which is conducted in the absence of a Jury is not to reported on. It may be discussed when the trial is completed but until then the reporting of this discussion is off limits to...

At least one ex Liberal Staffer is not going to be preselected to a safe Blue seat, Dunno about the Nationals though

Media Watch is going to be interesting tonight with both this result and the Bondi Channel 7 debacle

Large shopping mall has a few hundred employees and a couple of thousand shoppers at any one time and few crims and some bored disenfranchised youths plus your hoons and touch park and walk away in the carparking Size of a small town? Reasonable requst that people with gazzetted powers of...

The trial has already slarted; the argument about admisability of evidence is voir dire heard in the absence of the jury and it is not reported because knowledge of this evidence, if not accepted by the Court, may influence the jury's future deliberations Some witnesses may have been been...

Even though she's only on remand I doubt the Classo would give her a trusted position as a cook of even an Officers' billet