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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 ... 


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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 ... 


 

 

Monday
Oct302017

Blowing a Gayle

Defamation ... Shock verdict for plaintiff in Gayle v Fairfax ... Justice Lucy McCallum reverses herself on "reasonableness" ... Defendants say the trial was conducted unfairly ... All rise - journalists told they have no priority for courtroom seats ... School children being ushered by the "Rule of Law Institute" have rights too 

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Saturday
Oct282017

Sports news

Rude barrister rapped on knuckles by appeal judges in tennis tripping case ... Kew Golf Club wanted Melbourne barristers removed from a tree accident case because they might have to give evidence 

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Thursday
Oct262017

Leveraging the spawn

Celebrities and registering the names of their offspring as trade marks ... Beyoncé strikes trouble with licensing little Blue Ivy Carter's personal brand  ... Subeta Vimalarajah riffles through the trade marks register 

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Thursday
Oct262017

A different swamp

The creepy march of "religious freedom" ... Sidelining anti-discrimination laws in the name of God ... Winding-back clean power and clean water protections ... Employee rights and voter entitlements under threat ... The Supreme Court is back in town ... Trump stock-take from Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Monday
Oct232017

Kindness and cold ambition

Law graduate dismissed by firm ... Fair Work Commission finds that unpaid PLT does not count towards a "minimum employment period" ... No unfair dismissal protections for intern who morphed into an employee ... Peta Leigh examines the traps for young players 

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Monday
Oct232017

The Reserve Bank of Mum & Dad

Money lent to son by parents gives rise to a legal relationship ... Court orders nearly $300,000 be returned to parents who kept forking out to their offspring ... No need for ledgers ... Peta Leigh on the case 

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Friday
Oct202017

One out, all out

Federal courts' staff go all-blue collar ... Court bruvvers and sisters united in walk out ... Darrin, please explain ... Rerun for Jeff Phillips at bar elections ... Devious theories behind the Pascoe appointment ... Theodora's Goings On ... 

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Tuesday
Oct172017

Fresh miseries from Dutton

New Migration Act amendments ... Strip searching detainees in immigration detention ... Prohibited "things" to be determined by the minister ... Use of dogs to search detainees ... More humiliations ... Peach Melba files 

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Monday
Oct162017

Food diary

Barely Legal's constant hunt for free nourishment ... Sustenance on a student's miserable stipend ... Exam time and destitution ... Failing to live off the fat of the law 

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