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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
Feb232023

Land, lots of land under starry skies above

HWL Ebsworth found to be negligent in arrangements for massive land deal in western Sydney ... Quantum of damages yet to be determined ... Loss of opportunity to develop the land ... Failure to amend joint venture agreement in accordance with plaintiffs' instructions ... Don't fence me in 

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Tuesday
Feb212023

UN locked out of prison

United Nations human rights brigade pulls the plug on Australian prison inspections ... NSW's law 'n' order agenda threatened by Convention Against Torture ... Obstructions ... Commonwealth-State funding dispute ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest embarrassment 

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Tuesday
Feb212023

African Moot

Law students in Africa ... Pan African mooting ... Intense competition ... Idealism versus ambition ... Friendships strained ... "African values" and human rights ... Documentary reviewed by Max Shanahan 

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Thursday
Feb162023

The Eagle has landed

Fees please ... Barrister's billing sliced and diced as unfair and unreasonable ... Judge unhappy with thousands of pages of documents ... Associated costs blowout ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Feb102023

Fresh despair

Another sexually harassing judge under secret scrutiny ... Death of Robin Speed - what now for the Law of Rulers Institute? ... Averting the Republic of Gilead - the Law Reform Commission steps up ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Feb092023

Complaints department

Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial ... A storm of defamation actions ... Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action ... Pipelines to the press ... Federal Court opens the suppression portal ... Threats, complaints and investigations ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb082023

Wendler goes West

Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Morpheus arises

Judge's inability to complete the work as "quickly as I would have liked" ... Latest in a string of slowcoach judgments ... Supreme Court delays ... Boilerplate explanations ... Memory remains as fresh as a daisy ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Postcard from Paris

Strikes, protests and disruption ... The revolutionary spirit persists over planned new retirement age for French workers ... Wine spilt in the 4th ... Country could run out of pension money as contributions dwindle ... Sir Withnail on the latest manifestations 

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