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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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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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      Federal government slices and dices the law firms on the drip for Commonwealth work
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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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 

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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 ... 

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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 ... 

 

 

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Tuesday
Jan312023

Keane to serve

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

Former High Court justice Pat Keane takes up a spot on Hong Kong's final court ... British judges bail out ... Rule of law under constant assault ... Overseas judges excluded from sensitive security cases ... Political meddling with the HK legal profession ... Lawyers flee ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Jan312023

A better coup next time

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

Roger Fitch on the Republican screwballs and anarchists in the House ... Protecting the insurrectionists and the Trumpenvolk ... Democracy attacked by extensive litigation ... January 6 report ... Unlawful interference by lawyers 

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Friday
Jan272023

Lest we forget

• DateFriday, January 27, 2023

Justinian's review of lawyers and the law for 2022 ... A strangely memorable yet forgettable year ... Few, if any, elephant stamps ... Frantic activity by the new attorney general ... News from the Foreign Desk ... Law 'n Order ... Misconduct ... The works, from Max Shanahan 

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Tuesday
Jan172023

The Man Without A Face

• DateTuesday, January 17, 2023

Encomiums for George Pell ... Peter Dutton's contribution stands out for its sheer idiocy ... The Cardinal's fan club ignores the facts unearthed by the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse ... Role of the jury in the modern world ... Procrustes in sorrow and anger 

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Thursday
Dec292022

ICC defence lawyers revolt

• DateThursday, December 29, 2022

Defence counsel's shabby pay and conditions at the International Criminal Court ... Legal aid negotiations dragging on indefinitely ... Pay stuck at 2013 level ... An unbalanced system ... The bench decidedly frosty ... Silence in the court ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Dec272022

End of the road

• DateTuesday, December 27, 2022

Slide into financial ruin ... Prison ... Tickling the trust account to stay afloat ... Multiple instances of trust irregularities ... Poker machines of no assistance ... Ill-health ... Doom ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Saturday
Dec242022

Ancient ruins

• DateSaturday, December 24, 2022

Greeks want the Brits to stop playing with their marbles ... Restitution of stolen art ... Norman Palmer ... Amendments to evidentiary procedure ... Planet Janet off-piste ... Full Feds do their worst for a five-year-old ... Procrustes lets off steam 

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Friday
Dec162022

WA Madge says, 'don't mess with me'

• DateFriday, December 16, 2022

Contentious magistrate shifted from WA Children's Court ... Constitutional imperilment ... Independence of judicial officers ... Argy-bargy with head of jurisdiction ... Government meddling ... Big drama, according to Groper 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Another Jarndyce

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years ... Delays and apprehended bias ... Distain and disregard ... Going nowhere after eight years ... Retrial ordered ... Start again ... Artemus Jones reports 

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