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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 ... 


 

 

Friday
Apr142023

Blowing cobwebs out of the AG's department

Attorney General Dreyfus' recent agenda ... Busy bee ... Consultations ... Roundtables ... Reviews .. Reforms ... Legislation ... The Voice ... Appointments ... Speeches ... Polly Peck tallies the score 

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Wednesday
Apr122023

Leeser's miserable Voice

Weasels of the Liberal Party ... His Master's Voice ... Leeser's Lesser Voice ... Moderates in a pickle ... Spoiled for choice ... Furphies and figments ... Polly Peck reports 

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Thursday
Apr062023

Bureau de Spank

Legal delinquents across the land were denied hopes for Lenten salvation ... Variously censured, stripped, smacked and suspended (not from a cross) ... Max Shanahan with the latest professional lapses  

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Thursday
Apr062023

Our Man in Washington

Lawyers, guns & money ... Trump turns his indictment into a cash cow ... More guns for Republicans ... Gun originalism ... Judicial manipulation ... Torture memos ... Review of detainee treatment ... Wisconsin Supreme Court on the move ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Friday
Mar312023

On the wilder shores of the law

Hawaii the jurisdiction of choice for Australia's sovereign citizens ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with "pseudolaw" ... Fruitcake theories ... Conspiracies writ large ... Deluge of cases 

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Thursday
Mar302023

Human Rights Commission says "boo"

Crisis prone Human Rights Commission puts its head above the trench ... Human Rights Act proposed for Australia ... Years of pallid rights activity during Coalition reign ... Unsuitable appointments ... Out-of-step HR commissioner junks the Voice ... Rights legislation mauled in the UK ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Mar302023

The money or the box

No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ... Lawyers who hatched the plan to spring Henry Keogh from the clink fail in fees bid ... The Manock defence ... Incompetence ... Procrustes brings down the curtain on a 30-year long production 

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Wednesday
Mar292023

Australia's kakistocracy

Robodebt - a Frankenstein Monster ... Technology unchecked ... Liberal governments' traditional distain for welfare recipients ... Targeting the most vulnerable ... Legal concerns ... Failure at every level ... Duck shoving and deceit exposed by Royal Commission ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Mar242023

Voices from on High

Capturing the essence of constitutional thinking ... Three former High Court judges write in favour of the Voice ... One against (three guesses) ... Overview of the principal contentions ... Justinian wields the scissors and paste pot 

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