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      Brittany Higgins appeals Justice Tottle's defamation findings ... Hold on Reynolds' bankruptcy manoeuvres
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      Justice Bernard Murphy caught in the brambles as he misses extended deadline for his class action decision
    • BBC
      Prominent criminal barrister disbarred over false claims he studied at Oxford
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      Reasonable belief ... The first successful application of the public interest defence for defamation in Australia
    • The New Yorker
      Pam Bondi ... Trump's fixer ... Law bender ... And Attorney General
Celebrity Sue Chrysanthou on cancel culture

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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 >> 

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50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 

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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 >> 

 

 

 

Tuesday
Jul052022

The Revolutionary Tribunal

• DateTuesday, July 5, 2022

The US Supreme Court has become a Republican law enforcement tribunal ... Abortions, guns, religion, environment ... Cherry-picked legal reasoning ... Historical inaccuracies ... Worse to come ... Same sex marriage in Texas ... Washington correspondent Roger Fitch files 

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Sunday
Jun122022

The news: good, bad and awful

, • DateSunday, June 12, 2022

Turnbull and the poisoned fountain of justice ... Doug Meagher and Costigan days remembered ... Retired silk pushing for more speed to reduce the road toll ... Lawyers and law v the public's right to know ... Gongs ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Jun102022

Love, New Zealand style

• DateFriday, June 10, 2022

Polyamorous relationships and property law ... A single love triangle where "couple" means three ... With diagrams ... Winding up the polycule ... Multi-partner relationships the new-new thing ... Leave to appeal granted ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Jun092022

Civil Procedure and the Old Testament

• DateThursday, June 9, 2022

In search of dispute resolution ... What the Bible tells us about negotiation and arbitration ... Eve and the serpent - a failure to negotiate properly ... Catastrophic consequences ... King Solomon and the Commercial Arbitration Act ... Just, quick and cheap ... Eamonn Murphy and Ariana Haghighi escape from a dry tutorial 

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Friday
Jun032022

Street Watch

• DateFriday, June 3, 2022

Federal judge spanked for running the case ... Too much intervention ... Judicial cross-examination ... Rehearing ... Start again ... Also, allowance granted to AAT for "unattributed copying" ... Two-third of a judgment lifted from a party's submissions ... Max Shanahan reports courtside  

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Friday
Jun032022

Labor's law

• DateFriday, June 3, 2022

Mark Dreyfus' agenda ... A process of Demorrisonification ... The NIC ... Refenenda galore - The Voice, The Republic ... Whistleblowing and other freedoms - Collaery, Assange ... The quality of tribunal and commission appointments ... High Court vacancies ... Bureau chief Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Wednesday
Jun012022

SCOTUS hollows out America

• DateWednesday, June 1, 2022

US Supreme Court ... Overturning Roe v Wade and other travesties ... Using religious beliefs to alter secular law ... Gutting civil rights remedies ... Looser gun regulations ... The malignant Fifth Circuit ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Tuesday
May312022

Stephen Charles

• DateTuesday, May 31, 2022

Stephen Charles AO QC, one of the well-known advocates for a national integrity commission, is on Justinian's Couch ... Career highlights ... Personal weaknesses ... Australia's failing on asylum seekers and refugees ... John Howard's overrated standing ... Would be happy as a teacher 

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Friday
May272022

AAT - a brief history of Coalition connections

• DateFriday, May 27, 2022

Appointments to the AAT from the Brandis, Porter and Cash eras ... 79 party connections identified ... Deputy President again shows her political allegiance ... Plenty of pork ... Another senior member departing ... Tabulation 

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