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Sia in the counting house ... Damn statistics ... Federal Court mandarins inability to count ... Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services ... Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates ... Transparency ... From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake ... 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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Buttrose bombs in Lattouf case ... Caving in to pressure from the Israel lobby ... Judgment >>   Mea Culpa from Aunty ... More >> 

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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 >> 

"And I want to just thank everybody and in particular, God, I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military, protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you." 

Donald Trump at the White House announcing the bombing of Iran ... June 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


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 >> 


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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 >> 


 

 

Friday
May262017

Yuf detainees get rights

When a child detention centre is really an adult prison ... VicSupremes not tricked by government slight of hand ... A moment in the sun for the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities ... Screws with weapons ... Judicial review ... Peach Melba on the case 

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Monday
May222017

Torpid languor

Canberra's judgments of perfection ... Prize giving ... God help us ... Blood oath ... Witnessing stat decs 101 

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Sunday
May212017

Despairing about the advocates immunity

Judges think the advocates immunity is past its use-by date ... High Court formulation out of step with reality and international trends  

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Friday
May192017

Mr Sandman

A fair share of the court's time is too much time ... Tax appeal closed down because of dilatory barrister ... There's no time like tomorrow 

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Tuesday
May162017

Travesties of justice

Justice Denied by Bill Hosking QC and John Suter ... Reviewed by Tom Kelly ... True stories from the courts of the 1970s and 1980s ... Police verbals ... Complacent judges ... A rich cast of characters  

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Tuesday
May162017

An informal gathering

What to wear? ... How to eat? ... Barely Legal is invited to schmooze at Big Law ... Socially worthy initiative turns into recruitment drive ... Finding safe ground in a real property lecture 

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Friday
May122017

Backend "culture" guru takes on federal courts

Generous terms offered to new federal courts personal manager ... Stephen Gageler brings to life the turmoil at the High Court 112 years ago ... Bar presidents go, bar presidents come 

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Friday
May122017

The missing psychiatrist

Litigation ... Claims of a "stratagem" ... Psychiatrist gives hundreds of expert reports to litigants, but cannot be located for cross-examination ... Doctor is subpoenaed but fails the show in person ... The syrup in every pudding ... Dizzo judge asks the Supreme Court to examine the possibility of contempt ... Sohini Mehta reports on a strange case 

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Thursday
May112017

Pauline Wright

Ms Wright ... A busy bee, if ever there was one ... Pauline Wright, actor, swimmer, lifesaver, campaigner, playwright, passionate devotee to good causes ... And president of the Law Society of NSW ... Meet the person behind the whirlwind 

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