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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
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      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
Feb032017

An expensive trip across Parliament Square

• DateFriday, February 3, 2017

Brexit live was a pleasure to watch ... Lord Hughes in dissent - a model of clarity ... Norman Birkett at the American Bar Association ... Alexander Chancellor's Trumpian prediction ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Tuesday
Jan312017

Trumpian fantasies

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2017

A wrap of where we are now with the Trumpian ascendency ... Already talk about presidential replacement as evidence of mental instability emerges ... The administration's "corruption premium" ... 41 prisoners left at Guantánamo, costing $10.85 million each per year ... Roger Fitch files from an anguished Washington 

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Monday
Jan302017

Fresh blood

, • DateMonday, January 30, 2017

Swearing-in of chief justice Susan Kiefel before a glittering throng ... Soapy Brandis at his self-basting best ... New AG for NSW ... End of the justice cluster ... A certain amount of blood gets spilled 

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Friday
Jan272017

Back to law school in the first week of Trump's America

DateFriday, January 27, 2017

A bad thing has happened and studying law is full of angst ... What's happening to the Constitution and the rule of law? ... Dirty old Supreme Court decisions are new again ... Constitutional malleability ... An Australian at Harvard ... Hannah Ryan's letter from Cambridge 

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Friday
Jan272017

Hitler and Trump

, • DateFriday, January 27, 2017

It's not true to say that Donald Trump is a Nazi ... But he has followed the fascist playbook in a few key respects, including the "big lie" theory of propaganda ... He has created internal and external enemies who can be blamed for America's woes ... It could, and probably will, get worse ... Theodora comments 

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Tuesday
Jan242017

Unreasonable suspicion

• DateTuesday, January 24, 2017

Public servants exercising "reasonable suspicion" ... The might of the state can, at the drop of a Z-Grade clerk's pen, reduce a human being to a "thing" ... The extraordinary case of Livinus Okwume ... Procrustes laments the strangulation of personal liberty by executive decree 

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Thursday
Jan192017

HMAS Melbourne litigation settled

• DateThursday, January 19, 2017

End to long tussle over trust money held for victims of HMAS Melbourne-Voyager disaster ... Former solicitor for injured claimants coughs-up funds for the receivers ... Agrees not to reapply for admission ... Apologies and regrets 

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Wednesday
Jan182017

President Trump and the criminal justice reform movement

• DateWednesday, January 18, 2017

At the end of the Obama administration the era of mass incarceration looked as though it might be over ... Now for Trump, a "lock 'em up" sort of guy ... Incarcerating more people than necessary ... Stock price rally for private prison operators ... Hope for bipartisan coalition rests at the state level ... From Hannah Ryan in the US of A 

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Monday
Jan092017

Trump's posse of plutocrats

• DateMonday, January 9, 2017

Trump's cabinet of business oligarchs ... Conflicts with the whiff of corruption ... Climate deniers and fossil fanatics firmly in control at the Department of Energy and the EPA ... State department becomes a branch of ExxonMobil ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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