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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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Oct192023

Letter from London

"Can I just mention?" ... Judges show their Arsenal tickets ... Netflix bends it with Beckham... Giant US-UK law shop fusion ... AG gets the branding wrong ... Jail house blues ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty 

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Friday
Oct132023

Turf News

Former ferry master moves on from the Federal Court to hot seat at ICAC ... Baseball bat bruising for Shane Drumgold ... Torpor judges out West ... Brandis and Pezzullo - a marriage made in heaven ... Trogs frothing at Vic's Bar ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Wednesday
Oct112023

The Wild West

Judge failed to disclose to a defamation defendant her working relationship with the plaintiff's counsel ... Non recusal upheld on appeal with help from the fair minded lay observer - who was not in possession of all the facts ... Fair minds and bad looks ... Sandy Groper reports 

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Friday
Oct062023

Finn's finale

Paul Finn ... Former federal judge and serious academic ... 1946-2023 ... Equitable duties and good government ... The outsider who should have gone to the High Court ... Lunching connections ... The history of crony capitalism ... From the Obituaries Editor 

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Tuesday
Oct032023

After all we've done for them

China gets its foot inside Timor Leste's front door ... The legacy of Downer, Howard, ASIS and their pals at Woodside ... Collaery, K and the whole shooting match ... Dili diary ... Procrustes inveighs 

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Monday
Oct022023

The travesty of America's judiciary

Transformation of SCOTUS ... Alito and Thomas's ethical voids ... Rorting and stacking the courts in the Red States ... Circuit mischief ... Trump judges on the loose ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Sep262023

The looming train wreck

The Voice referendum - an insight into the soul of the nation ... A fast track constitutional lesson ... Levelling up the race power ... More than welfare is at stake for Indigenous Australians ... Ineptitude of the Yes case ... Procrustes in despair  

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Tuesday
Sep262023

From out of the West

Across the Nullarbor ... Another judicial delay ... Appeal against failure to recuse in defamation case ... Apprehension of bias ... Insufficient disclosure of tribunal member's connection with a complainant in barrister's fees case ... Disharmony in siblings estate dispute ... Groper's latest bulletin 

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Tuesday
Sep192023

Letter from London

Fighting SLAPP and tickle with a task force ... Law firm managing partner siphoned £64 million from the clients for a property spree ...  Bed sheets assist terror accused escape from pokey ... Birth father looped into adoption details ... Throwing the book at climate protestors ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from the Old Dart 

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