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Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >> 

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Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ... 

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  • Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases
    • Supreme Court of Western Australia
      Nine new senior counsel appointed in WA
    • The Guardian
      Rebecca Solnit ... The US election outcome ... "Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do"
    • Robert Beech-Jones
      High Court judge on lawyers who stood in the path of tyrants ... A grim speech for grim times
    • Judicial Commission of NSW
      Complaint by NSW DPP about the conduct of Judge Peter Whitford DCJ ... Findings by the NSW Judicial Commission in full ... Falling short of the standards required of a judicial officer
    • NACC Inspector's Report
      Report into failure of procedural fairness and natural justice by MACC commissioner Paul Brereton ... Apprehension. of partiality

How not to ask law 'n' order questions in the House of Commons ... More >>

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Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >> 

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The government wants to publish the secret chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission ... If someone who is yet to be appointed gives permission ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Mistakes of law or fact are a professional inevitability for judges, tribunal members and administrative decision makers."  

Paul Brereton, Commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission, downplaying the Inspector's finding of bias and procedural unfairness with his conflicted involvement in the decision making about Robodebt referrals ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ... 

Justinian's archive

A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Monday
Apr252016

Trials and tribulations

• DateMonday, April 25, 2016

Waterstreet dips in and out ... NSW's land titles registry on the block ... Law & Justice Foundation being starved to death ... Another trial for David Eastman

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Wednesday
Apr202016

Bar shtum on leaks

• DateWednesday, April 20, 2016

Geoffrey Watson SC hung out to dry ... Inside information about NSW bar's disciplinary process leaked to the press ... Counsel assisting chewed-up in ongoing News Corp war against ICAC 

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Wednesday
Apr202016

Sleep overs

• DateWednesday, April 20, 2016

Scerri stuff ... Yarraside Supremo rebukes lawyers in over-egged intestacy case ... Costs outrun the issues ... Barrister contradicts himself ... Lawyers sent to the Bureau de Spank ... Seb Tonkin courtside  

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Monday
Apr182016

Crowning moments

• DateMonday, April 18, 2016

Crown Law in Bananaland cannot act in industrial dispute against two of its employees ... Acting as a self-represented litigant against its own staff ... Everything happy at Crown Law ... Lack of systems to handle conflict ... Seb Tonkin reports 

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Monday
Apr182016

Labor lawyers now working for the banks

• DateMonday, April 18, 2016

What if Slater & Gordon had not floated ... The downside of going public ... Restructuring already underway ... Litigation defendants seizing on S&G's vulnerability 

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Saturday
Apr162016

Never say die

• DateSaturday, April 16, 2016

After 30 years of litigation Wentworth v Rogers lives on ... Another round in the country's longest running courtroom drama ... Costs awarded to Katherine Wentworth for 1985 damages action against her former husband 

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Thursday
Apr142016

Trauma on the Torrens

• DateThursday, April 14, 2016

South Australia - appointing auxiliary judges was the chief justice's idea ... Judicial appointments on the cheap ... Bar n' Grill up in arms ... AG looking to merge trial divisions of the Supreme and District courts ... Money, money, money 

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Wednesday
Apr132016

Second-hand hearsay

• DateWednesday, April 13, 2016

Stories from the depths ... Café life for Junior Junior as she soaks up the tittle-tattle and innuendo ... Channelling F.E. Smith, Birkett and Marshall Hall ... The story must be true if told by another barrister 

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Friday
Apr082016

It's bananas in Brisneyland

• DateFriday, April 8, 2016

Death rattle of the Carmody story ... Secretly recorded CJ rant back in the news as Sgt Plod called in to investigate senior judge administrator ... No need for Justice Byrne to pack his toothbrush 

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