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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 >>

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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 >> 

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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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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 >>

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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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Nov182015

Lawyers rule

The Rule of Law Institute ... Transparency missing in action ... Involvement with shadowy corporate lobbyist ... The Family Office Institute ... Synchronicity of clients' business interests with agenda of the Rule of Law Institute 

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Friday
Nov132015

Noel Hutley

Freshly elected president of the NSW bar is on the couch ... Steeped in the law ... Barrister to his bootstraps ... Reading, films, music, food, regrets and refrigeration all covered ... Have we spelled his name correctly? 

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Wednesday
Nov112015

Beyond the pale

NT DPP is the law ... CLP fund raiser not prosecuted for alleged breaches of the Electoral Act ... Not in the public interest ... Prosecution of person accused of sexually abusing Aboriginal children also dropped ... Not in the public interest ... Dishing out the nollies ... Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin

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Monday
Nov092015

Judge's meddling could not be cured by jury directions

Forceful spanking of trial judges by appeal benches ... Victorian Country Court judge in trouble for over-zealous bollicking of defence counsel during criminal trials ... Trials tainted by judge's "heated conversations" with counsel ... Back to school 

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Friday
Nov062015

Clive doesn't discriminate

Racial discrimination complaint against venerable barrister thrown out ... Harvesting votes at the Queensland bar ... QC offended by Soapy's snub ... Paying for a day in the life of Mr Wolf ... Snoozing ex-judge found in Iran 

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Friday
Nov062015

ICAC, afloat in a sea of leaks

Margaret Cunneen claims ICAC is leaking to News Corp ... News Corp says ICAC is leaking to Fairfax ... Inspector Dave says he's not leaking to anyone ... Spivs and logrollers line-up for free kicks ... Get your fresh leaks here 

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Monday
Nov022015

The Hammer sends papers to the Law Society

Court finds that solicitor misled bank in loan application and made untruthful claims in his defence ... Lawyer under "significant financial pressure" ... Doctored documents ... Defendant's evidence "beggars belief" 

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Saturday
Oct312015

Copy cat

Full feds on the case ... Refugee tribunal member substantially copied previous reasons of another member, which rejected application by a Tamil asylum seeker ... Failure by RRT member to apply independent considerations ... Go back, start again 

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Friday
Oct302015

Sandy Street overturned in pooch discrimination case

Virgin Australia should have allowed "Willow" to fly ... Numerous appellable errors in disability discrimination case ... Full Feds to the rescue ... Primary judge should have paused for "reflection" ... Kate Lilly reports 

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