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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 >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Jun092023

Vasta World

Salvatore Vasta's "pumpkin eater" case overturned on appeal ... Unscrambling secret meanings ... Union fines reduced ... Plus ... A special judgment on reasons not to make a transcript available to a litigant ...Sal's latest from our Ringside Reporter 

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Friday
Jun092023

Peter Lyons

Leverhulme RIP ... UK-based correspondent for Justinian dies unexpectedly ... Wonderful writer, a creative teacher, skilled advocate, scholar and friend ... Tribute to Peter Lyons ... By Richard Ackland  

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Tuesday
Jun062023

A paralysing experience

Anonymous barrister acting for a father in custody dispute ... Also a family friend of both the parties ... Order to stop acting to protect the appearance of justice ... More sensitivity, please ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Wednesday
May312023

Judges come out to play

Muck up day ... Judges out of school ... Jokers on the tear ... Pulled into line and told to stand with their noses to the wall ... Justices Wilson and Harrison open their lunch boxes ... Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports 

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Sunday
May282023

Limbo

Cold case opened - then shut ... Young Aboriginal girl goes missing from a bleak outback town ... Police indifference and brutality ... Miss Lumière reviews Ivan Sen's masterful new film Limbo 

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Wednesday
May242023

Rebellion of the Croweaters

Protests are an expression of democracy, except for politicians and the police ... New South Australian law protects the fossil boys from "infuriating" public activity ... Protestors required not to draw attention to themselves ... Procrustes picks through judicial thoughts on the common law rights of peaceful assembly 

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Tuesday
May232023

For the record

WA Attorney General Quigley responds to criticism of his judicial appointments ... Unfair to single out female solicitor appointees ... Condemnation of anonymous insights ... Unhappiness unabated ... Delay dossier ... Online advocacy for solicitors ... A black swan moment ... Theodora reports 

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Saturday
May202023

The judicial conscience floats free

Recusal process splits the Saloon ... Who should consider a bias application? ... All over the shop on judicial "ethics" ... Challenge to the appearance of justice over its substance ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
May192023

Life in the chaos lane

Mental ailments strike prominent crime solicitor ... Teeth and leg problems ... Unconvincing submissions from colourful medicos ... Staff claiming unpaid money ... Law shop disarray ... Public protection out the window ... Ostrich-like behaviour ... Inability to open emails 

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