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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >> 

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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Debbie Does Damien ... Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... ABC's Law Report ... The ins and out of live streaming and the media's access to documents ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Thursday
May112023

Stone the Crow

The sexual battery verdict against Trump ... Further peril pending ... Clarence Thomas in the pocket of reactionary benefactor ... Secret gifts sink the remnants of SCOTUS' ethical standing ... Ousting the veto power of state governors ... Voting limitations run riot ... Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Thursday
May112023

Laments from across the Nullarbor

Solicitors and women surging onto the bench in Western Australia ... Old timers incandescent ... Claims of inadequate trial experience for Supreme Court appointment ... Male silks overlooked ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
May092023

Wither pro bono?

There's no such thing as a free lunch ... And free lawyers are just as scarce ... Pro bono arrangement scrapped by SA appeal court ... Disincentive for lawyers to do the hard yards on wrongful conviction cases ... Hugh Selby writes 

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Sunday
May072023

Law of dispossession

Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at Yass ... An end to the grand piano ... An alternative consideration of New South Wales ... Review by Max Shanahan 

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Friday
Apr282023

We have Wood

Vic's Bar struggles with the Voice ... Should there be a position at all? ... Financial Review'slegal affairs man ticked off ... Old grizzlies out of the cage ... NSW bar run by "woke" mullahs ... More kero on the flames ... Peach Melba with Yarraside Yarns 

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Friday
Apr282023

Window ledges crowded in Phillip Street

Law Society staff and councillors jostle for space on the ledges as more flee the premises ... Regional Women Lawyers ruckus ... Concentration of power alienates young lawyers and smaller firms ... Escrow accounts for barristers create jitters ... Prospective streamlined discipline process ... Fresh hell ... From our intrepid reporter Theodora 

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Wednesday
Apr262023

Brandis era terror laws ripe for parody

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor urges abolition of continuing detention orders ... Risky risk assessment tool ... Critical review suppressed by Home Affairs ... Benbrika case ... Disproportionate Brandis-era terror laws ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Apr252023

Rock, scissors, paper

Admin law ... Power of the executive ... Reversing the AAT ... Latest thoughts from the Last Chance Saloon ... Smack for Doc. Donaghue ... Jagot seizes the moment ... Procrustes picks through the entrails of Davis v Minister for Immigration ... Plus, weirdness from Robert Gottliebsen 

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Thursday
Apr202023

Newsy person of the week

Debra Mortimer ... Coronation at the Federales ... Career highlights ... Opportunities taken ... Great cases of our time ... Champion of good causes ... Animals and children ... Theodora reports 

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