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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 ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >> 

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      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
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      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
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      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
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      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
    • NSW Legal Profession Admission Board
      Scathing report on the quality and rigour of PLT training for entrants to the legal profession
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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Former senator can't get enough litigation ... Linda Reynolds suing the Commonwealth and lawyers HWL Ebsworth over the Brittany Higgins settlement ... Claim that $2.4 million payment to former staffer affirmed Higgins' allegation ... Statement of claim ... Commonwealth Courts Portal >> 

 

Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Justinian Featurettes

Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Saturday
Jul152017

Top End law

• DateSaturday, July 15, 2017

Slap on the wrist for Darwin lawyer of "exemplary character" ... Guilty plea to cocaine bust ... Stellar references ... Great sporting ability ... Subeta Vimalarajah courtside 

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Saturday
Jul152017

New game of thrones

• DateSaturday, July 15, 2017

Allens says the NSW Law Society is on firm ground in moving to dump a member of its executive ... Demand for procedural fairness ... Motion to sack on hold until injunction resolved 

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Tuesday
Jul112017

Open and shut justice

• DateTuesday, July 11, 2017

Keeping the profession in good repute by covering-up the names of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings ... SA judge goes through the balancing act of deciding what's best - redaction or open justice ... Redaction wins 

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Tuesday
Jul112017

Costs immunity for court's little helper

• DateTuesday, July 11, 2017

Prez of the Qld CA explains the history of barristers, their admissions, the role of the court in the functions of the profession ... From pleaders, narrators, attorneys, benchers, serjeants-at-law, inns of court ... 800 years compressed into a blistering 46 paragraphs ... It's all about an application for costs ... Subeta Vimalarajah reporting 

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Monday
Jul102017

Shopping centre drug wars

• DateMonday, July 10, 2017

Shopping centre stoush over location of chemist shops ... Federal Court judge critical of dodgy plan to weave around the labyrinthine rules that apply to the location of pharmacies ... False and misleading information drafted by solicitor ... Peta Leigh reports 

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Monday
Jul102017

Competitive advantage is an illusion

• DateMonday, July 10, 2017

Barely Legal asks: why the resistance to typing exams on a computer? ... Student objections ... Fear of change ... Handwriting is better for the brain ... ExamSoft to the fore 

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Saturday
Jul082017

Soapy-at-large

• DateSaturday, July 8, 2017

Brandis with a pint near special spa establishment ... Serious crime prevention not so serious ... Tasmania looking for "layers" to serve on the Supremes ... Charles Waterstreet's celebrity press conference mysteriously cancelled ... Judicial misbehaviour ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Tuesday
Jul042017

The band that almost lost its disparagement

DateTuesday, July 4, 2017

In the era of disparagement, an "offensive" trademark gets a tick from SCOTUS ... Culture wars and the First Amendment ... KUNT ™ still too scandalous to register in Australia ... Subeta Vimalarajah on The Slant and "victims" reclaiming denigration 

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Tuesday
Jul042017

Who's next for flaying?

• DateTuesday, July 4, 2017

Procrustes lands blows on hapless hacks and pusillanimous politicians ... Bagging the unelected guardians ... Gillian Triggs ... Mark Weinberg ... Squelching Chris Kenny ... China looks to a new model: dictatorship plus the rule of law 

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