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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
    • Financial Review
      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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Commissioner of Police v Joshua Lees ... Justice Belinda Rigg's Palestinian Action Group decision has now been posted ... Over 100,000 cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday ... Confusing police alerts during the march gave the impression there was an unsuccessful attempt by the cops to derail the protest ... Reasons >>

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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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 

 

 

Saturday
May282016

All stand

• DateSaturday, May 28, 2016

Special law to enforce respect for judges ... Legislative loopiness ... Closing the gap between contempt and disrespect 

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Thursday
May262016

Stick it up your briefs

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Queensland bar council says national equitable briefing policy is potentially "divisive" ... BAQ won't play along with Law Council's plans to improve the lot of women barristers ... Qld. is different, says bar prez, Christopher Hughes ... Lofty correspondence 

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Thursday
May262016

Wiggy conniptions

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Dewigging transcript ... An uplifting piece of transcript from May 24 is doing the rounds of Vic's Bar n' Grill ... Justice Kevin Bell gets serious about wigs' policy ... Turning up wearing a wig is an insult to Earl Warren CJ ... Briefs grovel and remove their hairpieces ... Wig protocol a matter of law ... Judge expresses his profound disappointment 

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Friday
May202016

Yarraside's fragrant delights

• DateFriday, May 20, 2016

Marketing breakthrough as barrister appears on the side of trams ... Reptiles of the media warned not to connect coke sniffing associate with Federal Court judges ... Hands up for deputy NSW DPP ... Gilbert + Tobin spruces its image but keeps the plus ... Industrial action - how the Poms campaigned effectively against Cameron government's legal aid cuts 

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Friday
May202016

Fairfax courtroom dramas - a loss, a win

• DateFriday, May 20, 2016

Defamation and sources ... Nick Di Girolamo, Sydney lawyer, Liberal party operator and Obeid frontman withdraws from defamation trial against The Sydney Morning Herald ... Court of Appeal orders up journalists' sources in blow against investigative journalism 

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Thursday
May192016

High Court muddles the advocates' immunity

• DateThursday, May 19, 2016

Advocates' immunity survives on High Court's flawed reasoning ... "Finality" not a compelling proposition - particularly when the court allows negligence claims against lawyers in some litigation-related circumstances ... Artemus Jones despairs 

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Wednesday
May182016

That's not funny

• DateWednesday, May 18, 2016

Appearing before the gods of the bench ... Dire warning about flippancy in court ... Correctly reading the judicial temperament ... Traps for young players ... Junior Junior on adjournment techniques 

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Wednesday
May182016

Wills and spills

• DateWednesday, May 18, 2016

Where there's a will the High Court will find a way ... Solicitor has no duty to protect beneficiary against estate-depleting relatives ... Hannah Ryan court-side ... News from The Map 

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Friday
May132016

Barrister up for $150,000 in defamation damages

• DateFriday, May 13, 2016

Queensland barrister makes grave and baseless allegations online about police officer ... Defendant's conduct improper and unjustified ... Copper cleared by coroner ... Triviality defence goes down in flames ... Seb Tonkin reports 

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