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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 ... 


 

 

Tuesday
Nov212017

BAQ and the mystery of the missing fax

Queensland bar election turmoil ... Colditz replies ... Cold shoulder for senate inquiry into contempt of court ... Ructions in Adelaide as SA DPP flees bar association ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Nov212017

Federal courts' pay pitch

Federal Courts' staff mulling the latest enterprise offer ... Management on a road show trying to sell the proposal with a mixture of lures and threats ... Disruption accompanies work-to-rule ... Northly winds ... Waiting for pay day 

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Monday
Nov202017

Home is where the exam is

The take-home exam collapses time but is on its last legs because of student collusion ... More invigilatory supervision required ... Exam audit underway ... Barely Legal reports from her corn-chip cave 

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Monday
Nov202017

Adelaide's finest draw the line against same-sex coupling

From Torrensside ... The rise and fall of the putative spouse ... Hard amigos from the SA ALP fought against same sex superannuation for a very particular individual ... Procrustes reports 

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Saturday
Nov182017

Deconstructing the Gayle trial

Gayle v Fairfax ... Defamatorium ... Fair is foul and foul is fair ... Weighing the balance of a testing trial ... Analysis of judge's rulings 

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Saturday
Nov112017

There are consequences

Yarraside barristers go broke ... Insouciant non-compliance ... Tax man on the case ... Run-ins with the stipes ... Sequestration 

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Tuesday
Nov072017

Suburban strife at the Bureau de Spank

From Hornsby to Blacktown solicitors have been hauled in for birching by the disciplinary stipes ... Forging a fee agreement and filching money for a trial that did not proceed ... When a solicitor thought he could charge a commission before asking an estate's beneficiaries ... Fame & Character ... Misery & Woe 

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Wednesday
Nov012017

Prosecutors on the mat

Prosecution hides evidence ... The Map - where the Old Mates Club runs the island kingdom ... Tina Huang and Charles Waterstreet ... Weinsteins Downunder ... When a personal relationship with a judge might create apprehension ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Oct312017

Canberra - it's not Washington

How democracy works ... Hannah Ryan visits Canberra and the Museum of Australian Democracy ... Not much of a spiritual experience, yet there's something endearing about this version of democracy that doesn't take itself too seriously 

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