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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
Mar232022

Cancelling Dicey

Order of the Gilded Wombat ... Hands on the staff but keep your hands off the gongs ... What about Queen's Counsel? ... Campaign to confiscate honours from sexual offenders ... Comparison with the Einfeld case ... New discrimination and harassment rules for briefs ... Theodora on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar222022

Deadlines drop dead

Tax turmoil ... Computer problems ... Avoidance disorder ... Chronology of mistimed events ... Clinging to the jam roll ... Client work prioritised ... Distinction between personal and professional competence ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Monday
Mar212022

Danger ahead

Bad news from SCOTUS ... Vaccines, climate and discrimination ... State secrets privilege applied in torture cases ... Partisan courts ... Forum shopping for flexible federal judges ... Political control of the state courts ... From Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Monday
Mar212022

A case of who you know

Tom-toms from Brisbane's Bugle ... A story without context ... "ALP buddies on the bench" ... Mix-master on top speed ... The other side of politics even more culpable ... Merit and the Old Mates Act 

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Thursday
Mar172022

The ethnography of law school electives

The subjects they choose ... Divining the character and culture of law students ... What becomes of them? ... Corporations and tax ... Labour law ... Sports law ... Antonin Scalia law ... Human rights .. Equity ... Philosophy ... The different choices are defining ... Barely Legal reports 

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Sunday
Mar132022

Матушка Россия 

The Russian judiciary ... How the Kremlin tamed the judges ... Rule of the state is the same as the rule of law ... Artful selection of the "right" people ... The Kremlin always wins ...  Londongrad and rivers of looted rubles 

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Thursday
Mar102022

Executive overboard

Another top flight management executive leaves the AAT ... Staff attrition ... Morale and harmony unravelled by political picks ... Review of selection process ... Accountability ... Polly Peck reports 

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Tuesday
Mar082022

Damp spirits

Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal 

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Thursday
Mar032022

Foreign affairs

News from far corners ... Western Australia and Tasmania ... SC agitation ... Finding the right appointment "process" ... Displaced Circus Court judge pops up in Hobart ... Outcry over fiddling with the law course at U Tas ... Theodora on the parapet 

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