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Potty Mouth Solicitor Dispatched ... NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults ... Insufficiently professional ... Arrived from Greece with only his underpants ... No contrition ... Anthony Kanaan files ... Read more >>

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The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >> 

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      Sumption on Israel's war crimes ... Collective punishment visited on an entire population
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      Judges lobby indignant about criticism of NT Coroner by hack politician
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      Israelis are largely ignorant about what is happening in Gaza ... From David Remnick in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
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      The Constructive Institute ... Journalists urged to let go of the past and be constructive ... Journalism for tomorrow
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      Lunch with MinterEllison's Peter Bartlett: "I've always had these nightmares about retiring and turning the lights out"
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Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... From Stephen Murray at the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Read more >> 

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The Groths ... Victorian politician brings early privacy action against Murdoch rag and Vic Health Minister ... Claims of sexual relationship with teenager, now his wife ... Will the media defences apply? ... Is this journalism? ... Is it news? ... Field day awaits ... More from the AFR >>

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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"I've stopped six wars in the last - I'm averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan, and a lot of them. Congo was just and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I won't go into it very much, because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. They've been fighting for 500 years, intermittently, and we solved that war. You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it ..."

President Donald Trump at a meeting in Scotland with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer ... July 28, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... Read more >> 

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The Abbott era ... Attorney General Bookshelves Brandis gives a presser to announce the appointment of Michelle Gordon to replace her husband on the High Court ... Ducking on the question of judicial retirement age ... Three cheers for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians ... Another idea that went nowhere ... Justinian's Archive ... April 14, 2015 ... Read more >> 

 

 

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Friday
Dec022016

The High Court of Queensland

• DateFriday, December 2, 2016

Quo vadis Soapy Brandis? ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Queensland silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen 

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Thursday
Dec012016

Belling Brandis

• DateThursday, December 1, 2016

Brandis in strife again ... Caught up in post-truth politics ... The solicitor general did the AG a favour ... Timeline that shows how Soapy weaved and wavered before protecting "the interests of the Commonwealth" ... New senate inquiry to probe pork-pies  

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Monday
Nov282016

The Trials of Justice Murphy

• DateMonday, November 28, 2016

Launch of Stephen Walmsley's book The Trials of Justice Murphy ... Legal and political history ... Mixed crowd from the law, journalism and literature receive David Marr's speech in frosty silence ... Despite the jury verdict, the question remains, why did Lionel do it? ... Marr's launch speech, unexpurgated 

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Friday
Nov252016

A conspiracy of the underbelly 

• DateFriday, November 25, 2016

ICAC's Megan Latham is in the pantheon of heroes who have been under fire from governments for doing their jobs too well and too independently ... She joins Justin Gleeson and Gillian Triggs in the heroes' mausoleum ... Responses from various sources to the Baird government's scuttling of ICAC's inquisitorial process ... And, while we're at it, where are the Cunneen tapes? 

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Friday
Nov252016

Struck-off, struck-on

• DateFriday, November 25, 2016

Guns and child porn see SA criminal lawyer banished ... Litany of professional breaches ... Plus, solicitor who didn't pass on barrister's fees struck off the jam roll by tribunal ... The Court of Appeal smiled kindly and put him back on ... Naaman Zhou reports 

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Thursday
Nov242016

What a relief

• DateThursday, November 24, 2016

Garbo held on for an hour-and-a-half before doing wee-wee in a Melbourne laneway ... Council plod nabs bin-man while passing water ... Garbage contractor worried about reputation ... Is street-side relief grounds for dismissal? ... Fair Work Commission to the rescue ... Justin Pen unbuttons the story 

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Monday
Nov212016

Long shadow of lawyer's corrupt conduct

• DateMonday, November 21, 2016

Massive amounts of character evidence failed to help Howard Hilton regain admission ... Previous corrupt conduct would blight the legal profession's glow of honesty ... Readmission refused 30 years after being struck-off ... Insufficient evidence as to a change in character ... Andrew Bell reports 

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Monday
Nov212016

Almost fit and proper

• DateMonday, November 21, 2016

ACT admission ... Legal practitioner with list of offences and mental issues ... Ongoing medical assessment ... Artemus Jones says ACT Court of Appeal judgment is wrong in law ... Supervision regime unworkable ... Suppression of practitioner's name keeps it in-house ... Molonglo mayhem 

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Friday
Nov182016

Enemies of the People

• DateFriday, November 18, 2016

People ride to the rescue of the judges ... Global company cancels advertising with The Daily Mail after its attacks on the judiciary ... Politicians too scared of the media to wade into furore on behalf of the judiciary ... Corporates urged not to do business with "hate media"  

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