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Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >> 

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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent.

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 


Justinian's archive

Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 


 

 

Friday
Jan262018

Choo-Choo: the trains stay on track

Industrial bulletin ... Behind the scenes as the Fair Work Commission comes to grips with the threatened Sydney train strike ... Michael Harmer and the harm to his law firm ... Anxious school children made more anxious if train drivers didn't turn up for work ... Loose arguments aplenty ... Ryan Hunter on the case 

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Thursday
Jan252018

In a post-Tedeschi world

NSW bar forces senior crown prosecutor to backtrack on directive about the conduct of trials and sentencing hearings ... Documents leaked ... A prosecutor's duty ... Telegraph misreporting ... Law n' Order beat-up ... Resignation 

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Monday
Jan222018

NSW Government Gazette

NSW government expenditure on lawyers ... Production of new legislation slows ... Keeping shtum on the Suspect Target Management Plan ... AG and bar in barney over criminal trial delays ... Lies, damned lies and statistics 

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Friday
Jan122018

Clowning around

Phone hacking the royals has a long history ... Prince Charles' 1981 calls from Australia back to Lady Di in London were taped by a group of conspirators looking for ways to sideline Malcolm Fraser's plan for Charles to become GG ... From our Royal correspondent Prunella Faux 

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Wednesday
Jan102018

Traumas of the law

Lawyers teetering on the edge ... Legal aid commissions and other agencies have been slow to grapple with traumatised lawyers handling child sexual assault cases ... The mental wreckage is more widespread that we like to think ... Sara Tomevska reports on a workplace war zone 

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Tuesday
Jan092018

Trump's kleptocracy

Michael Wolff's book has deflected attention from Republicans' perverted tax law ... Roger Fitch in Washington takes us back to the main game - the destruction of the social safety net by diverting squillions to large corporations and real estate investors ... US remains in violation of the Convention Against Torture ... Gitmo - still looking for a war to fit the war crimes ... Trump: how will it all end? 

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Friday
Dec152017

The horse called Self Interest

Brexit's prolongued torture ... Lingering role in British law for European Court of Justice ... Fat Rascal trademark crisis ... Simnel cake faux pas ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Thursday
Dec072017

The post-Burkian era

A foul mouth was no barrier to success ... It may well be now ... How a lawyer and a law firm misunderstood their duty as employers ... Lord Denning's secretary verbally abused in Sydney ... Nick Bonyhady reports on a different sort of new normal 

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Tuesday
Dec052017

Concerning Champagne

Champagne - a product as much driven by marketing and legend as by the content of the bottle ... Ten myths exploded in a new critique of the bubbly libation ... Justinian's wine man G.D. Wendler explains, just in time for Christmas  

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