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Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank ... Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... Read more ...

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Back in the ring ... Rape on the minister’s couch … Cover-up … Of course, there was a cover-up … Bettina Arndt and the Institute for the Presumption of Bruce Lehrmann’s Innocence … Linda Reynolds needs sympathy and money … Justice Lee’s loose crumbs ... Read on ... 

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Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ... 

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Letter from London ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees ... Read more ... 

"Throughout every step of this process, I have been surrounded by the love of my wonderful family, as well as incredibly supportive friends and colleagues. I can never thank them enough. I also want to say how grateful I am to all the generous members of the public who have approached me almost every single day to express, often through tears, their unwavering support."

Celebrity TV presenter and defamation defendant Lisa Wilkinson outside the court after Justice Lee's verdict in the Lehrmann case ... Aoril 15, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Algorithmic injustices ... Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice ... Read more ... 


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Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more ... 


 

 

Monday
Sep102018

Hedge funds

When is money trust money? ... When it belongs to someone else ... It's easy to get muddled ... Brothers-in-law ... Jennifer Cooke reports from NCAT on wrangling the payment of disbursements 

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Sunday
Sep092018

Do nothing!

Sydney Law School's retiring dean Joellen Riley sits down and talks to Nick Bonyhady ... Academic pay and conditions ... In the industrial relations trenches ... Faculty shortcomings ... Alarming exams ... A sense of the ridiculous 

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Thursday
Sep062018

Silky aspirations

Scoop ... Another year and the NSW bar throws up a large quantity of contestants for a new round of the Silk Games ... Full list invites inspection ... Favourite names reappear 

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Wednesday
Sep052018

The bodies are piling-up in NSW

Coroners falling behind ... Long queue for inquests ... Coroners under-resourced ... New legislation secretly prepared even before the report of the statutory review is publicly available ... Full-blooded reforms thwarted ... Updated information to hand 

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Monday
Sep032018

Tommy Playford - South Australia's energy socialist

Procrustes reviews a new film, The NEG ... Everything new is old again ... How South Australia's Tom Playford split the government with his energy policy, but captured the support of Labor ... Why didn't Turnbull take a leaf from Sir Thomas' book? ... Plus, compensation for miscarriages of justice ... Quantum determined by public opinion ... Courts should step in 

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Sunday
Sep022018

Taxing matters

Unticketed criminal barrister gets low-end fine for breaching undertakings about tax payments ... Misleading the Bar Council amounts to professional misdonduct ... A steep fine would put family home in  jeopardy ... Nick Bonyhady reports from NCAT 

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Friday
Aug312018

Julian Morrow

The Chaser's Julian Morrow gets serious on Justinian's Couch ... An escapee from the law who came into our lives as a comedian and satirist ... The joys of employment law could not hold him ... Now the master of ceremonies at Continuing Professional Development Under the Influence 

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Thursday
Aug302018

Post-retirement judicial snafu

Molonglo Bulletin ... Latest developments on the case of the unfortunate Mr Lewis, caught in the cruel machinery of the ACT Supreme Court ... Case that is long in the tooth ... Multiple judgments at cross-purposes ... Dickensian developments ... Artemus Jones reports 

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Tuesday
Aug212018

King of the courts

Expansion of the Federal Court empire sees Registrar on more pay than the judges ... Enlarged title ... Massive expansion of budgets, staff and judicial officers under territorial sway of bureaucratic operator par excellence ... Personal submission to President of the Remuneration Tribunal 

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