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Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >> 

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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent.

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 


Justinian's archive

Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 


 

 

Thursday
Aug172023

Time is such an abstract concept

More fodder from the delayed judgment mill ... Judicial torpor ... Two years and more to produce sausages ... Extended intervals between two events ... Who is keeping an eye on productivity rates? 

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Tuesday
Aug152023

NSW silk applicants for 2023

SCOOP ... Waving, not drowning ... Silk contestants at the starting line ... Full list of NSW senior counsel applicants for 2023 unveiled ... Annual beauty parade 

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Monday
Aug142023

Money for dirt

Open Justice ... WA Supreme Court ... Iron Lady's suppression application nixed ... Carving up Pilbara mining tenements ... Litigation bonanza ... Making hay for at least three months ... Reputational harm and embarrassment ... Information already in the public domain ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Monday
Aug142023

Letter from London

Fleet Street dramas ... Right to be forgotten takes on the news ... Cash for naughty pics ... Another press reptile pinged ... MailOnline hack suspended ... Options for Huw Edwards' litigation spree ... "My reputation has never been worse" ... From Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London 

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Tuesday
Aug082023

Another crash landing by Walter

Early release of Sofronoff report sets off fresh chaos ... Bad move by Walter ... Denial of fairness ... Credibility of findings shot ... Another Cossack in the wings ... More litigation rushing towards us ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Aug022023

Ashes wrap

Appeal pending ... England deems the weather produced an "unjust" result ... Moral Victory v Facts ... Selection for the court of cricketing complaints ... Various judicial notables eligible to serve ... Cricket correspondent Wallace Grout reports  

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Tuesday
Aug012023

Suzie Miller

A writer on fire ... New plays, TV series, films and a novel ... The lawyer turned playwright ... The importance of Prima Facie ... Sexual assault trials ... Violence in the prison system ... The sport of arguing ... On the Couch with Suzie Miller 

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Tuesday
Aug012023

When No means Yes

Fit and proper ... Ticking the wrong box in practising certificate applications ... It can happen to anyone ... Concealing findings of public service misconduct ... Helping consultants latch onto the public purse ... Corruption report ... NT Law Society protecting the patch ... Ariana Haghighi reports 

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Tuesday
Aug012023

The common law needs a backbone

Out, not out ... Broad strokes ... Limits of the common law when it comes to trust in government ... Robodebt shows how ... Cases reveal the futility of the law ... Weakness of the judicial branch in setting standards for the State ... Procrustes on a mission 

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