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		<title>Is Erin Brockovich&#8217;s image losing its Shine?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/08/is-erin-brockovichs-image-losing-its-shine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/08/is-erin-brockovichs-image-losing-its-shine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Brockovich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boosted by her Hollywood success, crusading legal eagle Erin Brockovich has attached her name to numerous firms, including Shine Lawyers in Australia. But does he know about Shine's shady past, asks <b>Neil Walker</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Who foots the bill for the Gulf oil spill?</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1991408,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1991408,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[environmental disasters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who has to pay the bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? And how much will they have to cough up? An environmental law expert explains the complexities of liability for environmental disasters. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hard lessons from the Farah Jama case</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/11/hard-lessons-from-the-farah-jama-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/11/hard-lessons-from-the-farah-jama-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 03:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farah Jama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Hulls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=137279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Retired Justice Frank Vincent’s report on how DNA contamination led to the rape conviction of teenager Farah Jama ought to be compulsory reading for every cop, lawyer and judge in Australia.]]></description>
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		<title>How I got sued by Facebook</title>
		<link>http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/</link>
		<comments>http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=128632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Software engineer <b>Pete Warden</b> created <a href="http://fanpageanalytics.com/">a search engine</a> for Facebook data. But Facebook did not "like" it. He explains what happens when the company takes you off its friends list]]></description>
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		<title>Vioxx case: Merck legal team &#8216;successfull&#8217; despite $287k compo payout</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/vioxx-case-merck-legal-team-successfull-despite-287k-compo-payout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/vioxx-case-merck-legal-team-successfull-despite-287k-compo-payout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big pharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade Practices Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vioxx]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian court case on Vioxx, pitched as a landmark judgement against its makers Merck, flashed past in a blur, writes <b>Paul Smith</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tobacco&#8217;s big cover-up</title>
		<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34894780/ns/health-addictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34894780/ns/health-addictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Tobacco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exposed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US tobacco industry has been secretly meeting with the Solicitor General in a desperate attempt to stay out of the Supreme Court over the landmark 10-year-old racketeering lawsuit that found the industry deliberately concealed the dangers of smoking, <em>AP</em> reveals.]]></description>
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		<title>Moti case reveals AFP shortcomings</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/moti-case-reveals-afp-shortcomings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/moti-case-reveals-afp-shortcomings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Federal Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julian moti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solomon islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The public is entitled to be informed of the way their interests are being represented overseas by "DFAT Cats" and their AFP cousins, writes Sydney barrister <b>Roger de Robillard</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deporting criminal immigrants: it&#8217;s legal, but is it ethical?</title>
		<link>http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2009/12/alien-not-an-austr-alian/</link>
		<comments>http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2009/12/alien-not-an-austr-alian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Convicted criminal Andrew Moore lived in Australia for 30 years before the government revoked his visa, and sent him back to England. Two days later, he was dead. Is the Australian Government culpable? <em>Skeptic Lawyer</em> investigates.]]></description>
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		<title>Has Texas accidentally banned marriage?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/79112.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/79112.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A constitutional amendment in Texas designed to ban gay marriages may have inadvertently banned <em>all</em> marriages in the state, according to a lawyer and Democratic attorney general candidate.]]></description>
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		<title>Rich home free, ASIC in the dock</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/OneTel-Jodee-Rich-ASIC-Packer-Murdoch-pd20091118-XWBBQ?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/OneTel-Jodee-Rich-ASIC-Packer-Murdoch-pd20091118-XWBBQ?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodee Rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Silbermann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One.Tel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One.Tel executives Jodee Rich and Mark Silbermann may have escaped their legal battle with ASIC intact, but One.Tel was still a colossal failure, says <b>Stephen Bartholomeusz</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Kevin Rudd&#8217;s &#8220;scum of the earth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Gosford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smugglers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of the Northern Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The two men charged with bringing a boatload of Afghani asylum seekers into Australian waters appeared before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory last week. Are these the people really "scum of the Earth"? ]]></description>
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		<title>A history of Scientology&#8217;s legal battles</title>
		<link>http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/10/27/scientologys-french-fraud-conviction-not-the-first-legal-case/</link>
		<comments>http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/10/27/scientologys-french-fraud-conviction-not-the-first-legal-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church of Scientology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/28/2726058.htm?section=justin">today's fraud conviction</a> against the Church of Scientology in France, <em>CSM</em> looks back at the organisation's long and abiding relationship with courts all over the globe.]]></description>
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		<title>US lawyer sues Airbus (and everyone else) over Air France disaster</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2009/10/20/dead-reckoning-us-lawyer-sues-airbus-and-umpteen-other-parties-over-air-france-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2009/10/20/dead-reckoning-us-lawyer-sues-airbus-and-umpteen-other-parties-over-air-france-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AF447]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline crashes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A US lawyer is suing everyone who made anything that was part of the Air France Airbus flight that crashed into the mid Atlantic in June, reports <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Why televising the Patel case is a recipe for disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/why-televising-the-patel-case-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/why-televising-the-patel-case-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jayant patel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[televised courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/why-televising-the-patel-case-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Televising what happens in a courtroom is a brilliant idea for a range of reasons, but the case involving Dr Jayant Patel in Queensland is an unsuitable guinea pig.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Berlusconi may yet get his day in court</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/berlusconi-may-yet-get-his-day-in-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/berlusconi-may-yet-get-his-day-in-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial immunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/berlusconi-may-yet-get-his-day-in-court/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi is not Italy's head of state -- just its head of government. If the country's minister is a crook, the courts need to be given the opportunity to say so.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW prison operator has a very chequered past</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GEO Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales government has allowed the GEO Group to take over Sydney’s Parklea prison, despite the company's questionable history.]]></description>
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		<title>Justice in the balance &#8230; bank balance, that is</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/courts-justice-in-the-balance-bank-balance-that-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/courts-justice-in-the-balance-bank-balance-that-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/courts-justice-in-the-balance-bank-balance-that-is/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite decades of lip service from governments and the legal community, the price of justice is still prohibitively expensive for most Australians.]]></description>
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		<title>FAQ: What exactly is a war crime? Who lays down the law?</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/24/israel-war-crime-allegations-law</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/24/israel-war-crime-allegations-law#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Israel and Palestine have been accused of committing war crimes in Gaza. But just what constitutes a "crime" in a state of war? And who makes up the rules?]]></description>
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		<title>Justice on the cheap could be coming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/justice-on-the-cheap-could-be-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/justice-on-the-cheap-could-be-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Nicola Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/11/justice-on-the-cheap-could-be-coming/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Small groups suing corporate behemoths could benefit from a recent NSW court ruling, with capped fees and easier access. ]]></description>
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		<title>Can a URL be defamation?</title>
		<link>http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/will-glenn-beck-sue-defamatory-website-2009</link>
		<comments>http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/will-glenn-beck-sue-defamatory-website-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[domain names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Internet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=86259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/glenn-beck-hits-murdoch-at-the-hip-pocket/">Embattled</a> Fox News host Glenn Beck has set his lawyers upon the creators of <em>glennbeckrapedand murderedayounggirlin1990.com</em>. It's certainly a meme too far, but does he have a case for defamation?]]></description>
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		<title>Olmert finally makes history, but for all the wrong reasons</title>
		<link>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145156285&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</link>
		<comments>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145156285&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ehud-olmert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has been formerly indicted on the corruption charges that led to his resignation. He was a man that history might once have remembered for a commitment to peace and diplomacy, says <b>Gil Hoffman</b>, but will now be forever remembered as a criminal. ]]></description>
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		<title>Military court brought down by a balls up</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-curious-case-that-sank-a-court-system-20090826-ezr8.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-curious-case-that-sank-a-court-system-20090826-ezr8.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Armed Forces]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=82321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's top military court has been ruled constitutionally invalid, leaving 170 cases in question and the military justice system in disarray -- and it was all brought down over a pair of testicles. ]]></description>
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		<title>China to face its first green lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/31/china-residents-prosecute-government-environment</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/31/china-residents-prosecute-government-environment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking water supply]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=77571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of residents in China's Guizhou province are planning to launch an unprecedented lawsuit against the government, with complaints they have suffered from a polluted drinking water supply.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/31/china-residents-prosecute-government-environment/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s &#8220;mass show trial&#8221; begins</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/mass-trial-iranian-opposition-politicians</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/mass-trial-iranian-opposition-politicians#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ira election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=77487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[100 Iranian activists have appeared in court over accused of inciting violence in the wake of June's presidential election, in what opposition spokespeople are deriding as merely a "show trial".]]></description>
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		<title>The tweet that launched a $50k lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bar-tender/2009/07/exhibit-a-will-one-chicago-womans-tweet-cost-her-50000.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bar-tender/2009/07/exhibit-a-will-one-chicago-womans-tweet-cost-her-50000.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defamation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to get sued in 140 characters or fewer: a woman complained to her 20 followers on Twitter about her real estate agents. Now they're hitting her up for $50,000 for defamation. ]]></description>
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