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Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >> 

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Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ... 

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  • Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases
    • Supreme Court of Western Australia
      Nine new senior counsel appointed in WA
    • The Guardian
      Rebecca Solnit ... The US election outcome ... "Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do"
    • Robert Beech-Jones
      High Court judge on lawyers who stood in the path of tyrants ... A grim speech for grim times
    • Judicial Commission of NSW
      Complaint by NSW DPP about the conduct of Judge Peter Whitford DCJ ... Findings by the NSW Judicial Commission in full ... Falling short of the standards required of a judicial officer
    • NACC Inspector's Report
      Report into failure of procedural fairness and natural justice by MACC commissioner Paul Brereton ... Apprehension. of partiality

How not to ask law 'n' order questions in the House of Commons ... More >>

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Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >> 

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The government wants to publish the secret chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission ... If someone who is yet to be appointed gives permission ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Mistakes of law or fact are a professional inevitability for judges, tribunal members and administrative decision makers."  

Paul Brereton, Commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission, downplaying the Inspector's finding of bias and procedural unfairness with his conflicted involvement in the decision making about Robodebt referrals ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ... 

Justinian's archive

A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Tuesday
Nov212017

Federal courts' pay pitch

• DateTuesday, November 21, 2017

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

• DateMonday, November 20, 2017

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

• DateMonday, November 20, 2017

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

• DateSaturday, November 18, 2017

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

• DateSaturday, November 11, 2017

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

• DateTuesday, November 7, 2017

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

• DateWednesday, November 1, 2017

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

• DateTuesday, October 31, 2017

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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Monday
Oct302017

Blowing a Gayle

• DateMonday, October 30, 2017

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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