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Evan Whitton received the Walkley Award for National Journalism five times and was Journalist of the Year 1983 for "courage and innovation" in reporting a corruption inquiry. He was editor of The National Times, Chief Reporter and European Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and Reader in Journalism at the University of Queensland. He is now a columnist on the online legal journal Justinian www.justinian.com.au

SERIAL LIARS - a new online book about LAWYERS by Evan Whitton
This new and challenging book is now available free at the above web site. It challenges the very operation of the common law system, and of the lawyers who do very nicely out of it.

Book Review (by Bob Moles) of Serial Liars

Articles by Evan Whitton - Published in Justinian

Justinian - "A reasonable doubt for a reasonable price" Australia's leading law magazine

14 December 2006 - Running the spool backwards
1 December 2006 – Where the offence is, let the axe fall
13 November 2006 – Hold the zeal
1 November 2006 – The first Tuesday in November
16 October 2006 – Le vice Anglais
3 October 2006 – Cutting and pasting
19 September 2006 – Rights before justice
7 September 2006 – The petitio principii fallacy
23 Aug 2006 - Poltroonery, political and judicial
11 August 2006 – Sunday night at the Whittons
25 July 2006 – Cheney's lawyer
11 July 2006 – Four Quartets of The One Percent Doctrine
26 June 2006 – The birdshit precedent
14 June 2006 - Marathon Man
31 May 2006 – Explicating the inwardness
15 May 2006 – The ostrich instruction
3 May 2006 – The Lindberg Question
18 Apr 2006 – The Wink
3 Apr 2006 – The Stuffed Man
20 Mar 2006 – The merde is everywhere
6 Mar 2006 – Cole off-beam on wheaties' privilege claim
6 Feb 2006 - Bells and Catholics
23 Jan 2006 - While you were snoozing
13 Dec 2005 – Bring on the Cour d'Assises
29 Nov 2005 - A brief history of sedition
14 Nov 2005 - Frank Galbally - a reasonable doubt for a reasonable price
2 Nov 2005 – Colonel Wainer's 1969 summer offensive
17 Oct 2005 – Intellectual torpor
4 Oct 2005 – A clear and present danger
19 Sept 2005 - A good dose of derision
5 Sept 2005 – The law of affront
9 Aug 2005 – Judicial ethics. Please explain
25 July 2005 - Reliving the glory days of tax ramps
11 July 2005 - A special memory of Sir H. Talbot Gibbs
28 June 2005 – Morality - missing in action
14 June 2005 - When a loan shark's estate "got chewed by the water sharks"
30 May 2005 - It was snoozing Judge Dodd who elicited the truth about the prisons
16 May 2005 - The common law's unjust tricks with double jeopardy
2 May 2005 - A moving encomium for an old viper
19 Apr 2005 - Our justice system is ill equipped to handle the "war on terror"
4 Apr 2005 - The missing question in the matter of immunity
22 Mar 2005 - The "Christie" claptrap and its bastard offspring
9 Mar 2005 - The hanky-panky rule
21 Feb 2005 - Freedom Rider Spigelman should blaze a trail with juries
7 Feb 2005 - Joe Cinque's death, diminished responsibility and the moral compass
26 Jan 2005 - Treatise on torture
11 Jan 2005 - A fitting end for Justice McHuge's lap of honour
14 Dec 2004 - An end to paper pleadings
30 Nov 2004 - Double jeopardy, boil and bubble: The horse has bolted – pig's arse to that
17 Nov 2004 - Libel law based on lies distributes cash to liars
5 Nov 2004 - Entirely a matter for you
20 Oct 2004 - Academics take no strides to fix the ills of the adversary process
4 Oct 2004 - RICO law broke the rule against pattern evidence - and a lot of lawyers got nabbed.
22 Sept 2004 - Reptiles hew to a higher moral standard than herpetoids
7 Sept 2004 - Jeremy Bentham's unanswerable argument on lawyer-client privilege
24 Aug 2004 - Some free advice for Hon Jerry Cripps
11 Aug 2004 - "Why is the justice system so weird
27 July 2004 - Justice McHuge shouldn't get too carried away about Alexander Hamilton
14 July 2004 - "Dubya" on the right team when it comes to tort reform
29 June 2004 - Justice's loose association with truth
June 2002 - Annals Australasia - Max Stuart - Saved From The Hangman’s Rope

Articles referred to by Evan Whitton

2 July 2004 - The Strengths Of The Weakest Arm - Justice McHugh

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