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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Jun112018

Ticket please

Seize the day ... Audacious outsider trying to burst onto lawyers' patch ... When is legal work not legal work? ... Chicken Treat upset ... Unsuccessful attempt to introduce unticketed legal services ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Sunday
Jun102018

A post-institutional world

The Law Institute of Victoria faces turmoil and losses ... Only 66 percent of practising solicitors are members ... The NSW solicitors club is booming with a 90 percent membership rate and a big fat balance sheet 

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Thursday
Jun072018

Barristers contretemps over Coco Roco fees

Solicitor decides not to get in the way of barristers' stoush over fees ... Ancient defamation case still causing angst ... Three musketeers of the defamation bar jousting over a "small amount of money" ... Equity rescues the common law ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Friday
Jun012018

Back office

ALRC in the senate spotlight ... Family Court PR machine challenged ... Hobart chambers no guns policy ... Latest Goings On with Theodora 

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Thursday
May312018

How to design a dromedary

Family judges playing in the second division win the toss ... First division players to be sent off the field ... Welcome to the new-old Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - a multi-level judicial sweatshop where enmities can fester 

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Monday
May282018

Snowflakes rule

London Calling ... Friends and colleagues of Leverhulme complain about entitled millennials ... Spoiled and complaining brats will be a problem for law firms ... Stories from the front line ... Royal wedding ... The safety of London taxis 

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Monday
May282018

Bill-able hours - my-nute increments

Overstepping the crease ... Criticism of judges and how they handle it ... Geoffrey Ma, CJ of HK Final Court of Appeals, plays a straight bat ... UTS moot court and swearing in public ... Indigenous incarceration ... Around the Grounds with Boilermaker Bill 

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Sunday
May272018

Letter from London

It hasn't been all beer and skittles as George Brandis settles in as the new High Commissioner to the UK ... An early missive from our man at Australia House ... Correspondence from lofty sources finds it's way to Justinian's in-tray 

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Thursday
May242018

The wide and deep "missing middle"

Funding models and costs for legal services ... A voice from deep within Victoria Legal Aid ... Bare-boned applicants for legal aid ... Federal funding the lowest for 20 years ... Peach Melba on the barricades 

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