Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Callinan Diaries • Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Justice Callinan, in the latest instalment from his diary, reveals the careful behind-the-scenes planning for a special event to mark the High Court’s official farewell of Michael McHugh ... From Justinian's archive, August 2005
Judges • Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Lady Di Fingleton was offered a settlement by Premier Peter Bjelke-Beattie ... The fallout from The Queen v Fingleton, plus all the vivid ancillary proceedings – Daphnis de Jersey v Michael McHugh, Jim Thomas v The High Court, Justice John Jerrard v Daphnis & Ors, etc. ... From Justinian's archive, July 2005
Di Fingleton, Déjà Vu, James Thomas, Michael McHugh QC, de Jersey CJ Deja Vu • Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Lady Di Fingleton has been offered a settlement by Premier Peter Bjelke-Beattie ... Beefy feature on the fallout from The Queen v Fingleton, plus all the interesting ancillary actions ... Daphnis de Jersey v Michael McHugh, Jim Thomas v The High Court, Justice John Jerrard v Daphnis & Ors
Di Fingleton Callinan Diaries • Wednesday, June 22, 2005 More from the pen of the High Court’s poet, playwright, novelist, and muse. Justice Callinan meets the radiant Janette Howard in a cellar. Plus the next slice from his forthcoming novel, The Cannelloni Conspiracy ... From Justinian's archive
Deja Vu • Wednesday, June 8, 2005 Boorishness at the VicGrill … Plenty of illness to report … Gough's tips at L’Aqua dinner … Fine work by lawyers recognised by HM … Spigs reshapes the Supreme Court in his image ... Libs stir the pot on Justice Megan Latham's appointment ... From Justinian's archive, June 2005
Callinan Diaries • Friday, May 20, 2005 Justinian managed to acquire the exclusive rights to the serialisation of The Secret Diaries of The Hon. I.D.F. Callinan AC QC. The High Court judge, playright and novellist records the day-by-day, behind-the-scenes dramas at the court as well as letting us take a peek at the first draft of his new novel, The Cannelloni Conspiracy.
Deja Vu • Monday, March 7, 2005 Murdoch's local lawyer-in-chief Ian Philip back in the news again ... This time threating action against anyone who publishes leaked internal News Corp documents about the poor health of its newspapers ... Last time Justinian mention Philip it was March 2005 and Justice Tamberlin was unimpressed with his "substantially excessive" claims of privilege in the C7 case ... From our bulging treasure trove of stories
Deja Vu • Saturday, March 5, 2005 "Sir" Terence Lewis’ attack on his old legal team tossed out. Bent Queensland police chief loses action against his solicitors ... March 2005
Deja Vu • Friday, November 5, 2004 "You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of Not Guilty." ... Reprise of the Peter Cook skit of the Jeremy Thorpe trial ... Entirely a Matter for You ... Evan Whitton, from Justinian's archive November 5, 2004
Judges • Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Warfare on the High Court ... McHugh and Kirbs go hammer and tongs on argument about "indefinite detention" for aliens ... Boys. Boys. That’s quite enough ... From Justinian's archive, September 15, 2004 ... Ouch
Deja Vu • Thursday, August 5, 2004 Schmaltzy "love" letters ... David Flint and Alan Jones oozing admiration from every pore ... Cringeworthy correspondence that Flint failed to reveal when he was chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, later to inquire into Jones' role in the Cash for Comment scandal ... From Justinian's archive August 2004
Goings On ... • Monday, June 21, 2004 David Ipp's wonky wake-up call to anaesthetists ... Deputy registrar's deadweights ... Nettle and the Hollingworth case ... AG's historic library being dismembered ... Somosi’s imputations flop ... By appointment to the Viceroy of Tasmania ... (Spud) Murphy's bail application runs off at the mouth ... From Justinian's archive, June 2004
Deja Vu • Monday, May 17, 2004 Fruity Flint’s fascinating theory about Mabo ... Launch of Portraits on Yellow Paper ... Burnside’s beefy punch-bag replacement ... From Justinian's archive May 17, 2004 ... Plus Madge Marsden's health notes ... Nylons at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Theodora
David Flint, Ian Callinan, John Marsden, Roddy Meagher So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004
Bail, David Levine, Defamatorium, John Marsden, Paul de Jersey Deja Vu • Thursday, April 22, 2004 So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Inside Madge’s mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Dean Mildren “the idiot” ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004
Judges • Thursday, March 18, 2004 Roddy Meagher’s farewell speech emerges from a lengthy process of proof reading ... Cracks about "Twiggy" Spigelman and "Chilly" Gleeson ... Distressing thoughts about the superior qualities of leading NSW barristers ... From Justinian's archive, March 18, 2004
Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Tuesday, February 17, 2004 John Cummins gets another five years of bankruptcy ... Supreme Court of Yarraside feeling the hot, sticky breath of Sydney ... Dubya's Capital "C" Conservative judicial nominees ... Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission gives Daphnis de Jersey short-shrift ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
Sir Terence O'Rort • Monday, February 16, 2004 Was he a client or wasn’t he? ... Court of Appeal breathed life into a Brisbane solicitor's action against Lord Eldon over barristerial advice about failed NCA proceedings ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
Deja Vu • Friday, February 13, 2004 It's Déjà Vu all over again ... Justinian discovers the full text of Dyson Heydon’s famous Quadrant speech ... Juiciest parts chopped from the published version ... Here are the bits where Dyce pokes his tongue out at his least favourite judges ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
Dyson Heydon Deja Vu • Monday, December 15, 2003 Architects claim their copyright infringed by cake baked in the shape of the High Court ... Associate to Whitlam J (as he then was) created the cake and Federal Court judges helped consume it ... Implied freedom of political communication ... Remembering the great High Court cake copyright wheeze ... Correspondence between the parties
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