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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 >>

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 


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
Jun032022

Street Watch

Federal judge spanked for running the case ... Too much intervention ... Judicial cross-examination ... Rehearing ... Start again ... Also, allowance granted to AAT for "unattributed copying" ... Two-third of a judgment lifted from a party's submissions ... Max Shanahan reports courtside  

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Friday
Jun032022

Labor's law

Mark Dreyfus' agenda ... A process of Demorrisonification ... The NIC ... Refenenda galore - The Voice, The Republic ... Whistleblowing and other freedoms - Collaery, Assange ... The quality of tribunal and commission appointments ... High Court vacancies ... Bureau chief Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Wednesday
Jun012022

SCOTUS hollows out America

US Supreme Court ... Overturning Roe v Wade and other travesties ... Using religious beliefs to alter secular law ... Gutting civil rights remedies ... Looser gun regulations ... The malignant Fifth Circuit ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Tuesday
May312022

Stephen Charles

Stephen Charles AO QC, one of the well-known advocates for a national integrity commission, is on Justinian's Couch ... Career highlights ... Personal weaknesses ... Australia's failing on asylum seekers and refugees ... John Howard's overrated standing ... Would be happy as a teacher 

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Friday
May272022

AAT - a brief history of Coalition connections

Appointments to the AAT from the Brandis, Porter and Cash eras ... 79 party connections identified ... Deputy President again shows her political allegiance ... Plenty of pork ... Another senior member departing ... Tabulation 

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Thursday
May262022

More time with the family

Craig McLachlan's defamation calamity ... Bad time at the reputation repair shop ... Why on earth did he sue? ... Huge bills and a big blot on the escutcheon ... Crowing on Channel 7 did not help ... Significant outcome for journalism and the #MeToo movement ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Wednesday
May252022

The money grab for new grads

Top tier law shops ... Soaring pay packets for law graduates ... Salaries hit $100k for fresh recruits ... Instagram survey ... Pay secrecy and inequality ... Social media collects the numbers ... Henry Chen has the data 

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Tuesday
May172022

Wyvill's war

Darwin's close-knit law and justice patch ... Leading Darwin silk complains to the Judicial Commission about the conduct of a NT Supreme Court judge ... Finding that it was reasonably open to suspect the judge of being "politically partisan" and bearing malice ... Role of chief justice ... Fallout from flawed Stella Maris investigation ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Monday
May162022

Ding Dong

Chief Justice Andrew Bell ... Urging an end to remoteness ... At loggerheads with Victorian counterpart ... Profession in peril ... Conviviality is king ... Trouble padding-up ... Max Shanahan reports 

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