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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
    • The New Yorker
      Israelis are largely ignorant about what is happening in Gaza ... From David Remnick in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
    • The Politics
      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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Oct212015

The Roberts court and other mishaps

• DateWednesday, October 21, 2015

Ten turbulent years of the Roberts court ... Gitmo travesties ... Failure of "black site" victims to get remedies ... Stealing votes ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, reports 

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Monday
Oct192015

Fullness and frankness

• DateMonday, October 19, 2015

Barrister does a bit of work without a ticket ... Forgets just how many jobs were involved ... Tells pork pies to the bar council ... Disgraceful ... Judge claims that practising certificates "protect the public" ... Law graduate strikes Top End admission problem as a result of a copy and paste approach to assignments ... Unintentional plagiarising ... Forgets to be full and frank ... Kate Lilly reports 

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Sunday
Oct182015

Promises, promises

• DateSunday, October 18, 2015

UPDATE ... Email meltdown ... NSW briefs besieged with election claims and counter claims ... Tickets advocating "stability" and "neutrality" ... Priceless bauble at stake ... Vote early, vote often ... Roll out the bunting 

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Sunday
Oct182015

Marksmanship

• DateSunday, October 18, 2015

Assessing the true academic capacity of law students ... Consequences for professional employment ... Variations in methods of marking ... John Eldridge and Rebecca McEwen examine how best to achieve fairness and consistency 

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Thursday
Oct152015

Remembering Andre Simon

• DateThursday, October 15, 2015

Gabriel Wendler on Andre Simon ... Founder of the Wine and Food Society ... Prolific author on grape related matters ... Champagne aficionado ... Expert witness in wine litigation ... One bottle left in his cellar at time of death 

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Friday
Sep252015

Dear barrister - why don't you toss out the toffs at the top?

• DateFriday, September 25, 2015

NSW bar elections loom and Margaret Cunneen is out of the blocks early with a campaigning missive ... Letter to members attacking bar leaders ... Unheard of politicking ... Council disfunction ... Vote for ME, I share your distress ... Mother Margaret will look after you 

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Friday
Sep252015

The Wolf of Phillip Street

• DateFriday, September 25, 2015

Drugs and lawyers ... Lawyers and drugs ... Getting busted while on the roll ... The stories that 'come up' at lunch ... Don't forget the CCTV cameras ... From our baby barrister blogger, Unrobed 

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Thursday
Sep242015

Humans want their rights

• DateThursday, September 24, 2015

Queensland on high alert as human rights bandwagon starts to roll ... Eight year review of Vic's Charter of Rights calls for more teeth, less gum 

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Thursday
Sep242015

Moot point

• DateThursday, September 24, 2015

Barely Legal does his first moot and has an out-of-body realisation ... Of course, it's about the "experience" - never mind the winning ... Breathe in, breathe out ... Our student-at-law blogs 

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