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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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    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
    • NSW Legal Profession Admission Board
      Scathing report on the quality and rigour of PLT training for entrants to the legal profession
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Justinian Columnists

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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Feb072023

Morpheus arises

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

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

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

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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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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