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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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Justinian Columnists

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 ... 

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

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 >> 

 

 

Friday
Mar312017

Brooding spirits of the law

• DateFriday, March 31, 2017

Great Australian Dissents ... Sir Tony Mason launches learned tome ... Noble and notable dissenting judgments ... Judges who had an eye on the future ... Disagreements on High 

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Thursday
Mar302017

Trump's disorders

• DateThursday, March 30, 2017
 

Roger Fitch in Washington on Trump's plans to destroy America's public services ... Out the window goes consumer protection, funding for the arts and legal aid ... After James Comey nobbled Hillary Clinton, the FBI is now probing Russia's influence on the election ... Civil damages suit against CIA torture contractors 

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Sunday
Mar262017

Time after time

• DateSunday, March 26, 2017

Personal injury law shop Brydens having trouble producing an itemised bill of costs ... A continuing difficulty ... Lost file ... Strange interpretation of the Legal Profession Act ... Daniel Ahern reports 

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Sunday
Mar262017

Costs feud sends solicitor to the infirmary

• DateSunday, March 26, 2017

Solicitor overcharged whistleblowing client ... Cost assessment ... Client charged $1.7 million ... Breach of duty ... Breach of trust account regulations ... Nearly eight years on ... It's not over yet ... Daniel Ahern is on the case 

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Saturday
Mar252017

Inflammatory letter lands solicitor a reprimand

• DateSaturday, March 25, 2017

Family law ... Letter writing skills ... Unreferenced borrowings in overwrought missive to client's husband ... Writing under instructions ... Sohini Mehta reports 

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Thursday
Mar232017

Sentencing trends

• DateThursday, March 23, 2017

The good old days of sentencing ... A decent lunch for the judge and then into court to slot some poor wretch, accompanied by plenty of self-righteous moralising ... View of the world from the leafy suburbs ... Lack of rigour ... Judicial history ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Mar172017

Not too flash

• DateFriday, March 17, 2017

Filibuster on Bell questions at senate estimates ... Judicial developments at The Map ... Tidball - there's a song in his heart ... Worthwhile cause of the week 

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Friday
Mar172017

Lubricating the sausage factory 

• DateFriday, March 17, 2017

Where are we with the other Royal Commission - the one on the detention of children in the Northern Territory? ... Murdoch hacks furiously critical of the commission - so it must be on the right track ... Reporting on crocodiles a top priority ... Has the legal profession been too comfortable about youth injustice in the NT? ... Daniel Ahern reports 

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Monday
Mar132017

A pop star comes to campus

• DateMonday, March 13, 2017

Letter from Cambridge ... Rihanna does not sing ... Just a short talk to celebrate her award as Harvard's Humanitarian of the Year ... Rock star professors are pale in comparison ... Hannah Ryan reports, with a bad dose of hero worship 

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