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Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>

 

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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Another special from Justice Wendy Abraham ... Sofronoff to have his day in court in challenge to ACT Intregrity Commission corruption findings ... Parliamentary privilege does not apply to the report ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Monday
Aug282017

Pressing issues

Special chair for light duties in chambers ... Lawyer ordered to pay indemnity costs in sewerage bill standoff ... Austlii's redesign ... The senate considers whether courts have the wrong idea about contempt ... When legislation is received from Mother England what meaning can parliament intend? ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Monday
Aug282017

No fixed address

Women on the streets ... Crime and  homelessness ... Melbourne City Council's plans to roundup rough sleepers to improve "pedestrian flow" ... Slavery, human trafficking and people smuggling ... Peach Melba on political compassion 

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Tuesday
Aug222017

Fear and loathing at the Lubyanka

Federal courts update ... Public Sector Union complains to the Public Service Commissioner about hiring processes at the federal courts ... Lack of important detail at senate estimates ... Tears at the courts' Canberra support office 

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Monday
Aug212017

Myth man

Turnbull the know-all ... Dual citizens in parliament ... PM declares the High Court has already found for the government ... The illusion of brilliance ... No postal voting for "silent" electors ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Saturday
Aug192017

All Gas and Gaiters

Daphnis and the vanishing foundation stone ... De-naming ... "Churchie" school teachers on molestation spree ... Old guard led by Lord Eldon in revolt ... Serious fraud complaint to Charities Commission ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports 

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Wednesday
Aug162017

Section 44 history lesson

Procrustes at the blackboard ... Age-old stoushes over MPs eligibility ... Rights and privileges from a foreign power ... What about MPs receiving douceurs from foreign powers? ... Common law up against the power of Home Affairs 

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Friday
Aug112017

Federal courts exodus

Toot-toot ... Ferry man leaves the wharf ... All aboard with new staff ... Old timers walk the plank ... Industrial turmoil at the federal courts as new bosun comes on board 

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Tuesday
Aug082017

Budget pains

From where is the extra $6 million for NSW CLCs coming? ... South Australian bar accounts in limbo ... Eight months late the new ICAC is born 

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Thursday
Aug032017

Not so settled 

Traditional Aboriginal owners want a nuclear waste dump on their NT land, plus quite a bit of money ... Move to unstitch Commonwealth settlement with neighbouring community, which is opposed to the nuclear dump ... Back to court ... Top End reporter Subeta Vimalarajah follows the action 

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