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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
Nov242022

AAT: appointments pending

AAT ... Three months appointments for expiring members ... AG to assess the list of those who have their hand up for another spin of the wheel ... Some strange omissions ... No explanations ... Basil Gray reports 

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Wednesday
Nov232022

The Planet shivers

Tom Toms following journalist's speech ... Galah dinner ... Conniptions from ACT lawyers ... Tears and dismay ... Lawyers must not be critiqued ... Speakers required to bolster and flatter ... Amendments affecting Lehrmann retrial ... Theodora surveys the carnage 

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Monday
Nov212022

Boyfriend trouble

Shine lawyer sent to re-education camp ... Playing the G string ... Romantic representation ... Shame and embarrassment ... Substantial Failure v Consistent Failure ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

RBG: Of Many, One

Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Heather Mitchell as "Notorious RBG" ... Review by Braham Dabscheck 

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Tuesday
Nov152022

Western Mail

Judgment delivered in another Lloyd Rayney defamation case ... Two years gestation ... Recusal application denied ... Appeal pending ... Another Perth supermodel not getting up for under $10,000 a day ... Appeal judges ask for more details of work done ... Groper reports  

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Monday
Nov142022

Election deniers get elected

Roger Fitch in Washington takes a close look at the mid-term results ... Abortion probably played a bigger role than the Big Lie ... Pre-election meddling by the Supreme Court ... Not all the crazies lost ... The Republican House has inquisitions planned ... Voting rights and abortion protected in some state ballots 

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Friday
Nov112022

The Restoration

RIP Bob Ellicott ... Former solicitor general, MP, attorney general and judge ... Contention dogged his political career ... "Bullshit" advice about the governor general's power to remove a government ... In the thick of November 11, 1975 

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Wednesday
Nov092022

Lunar event

An exam paper with built-in "reputational damage" ... University grovels to upset law student ... Same scenario used in earlier exams ... Extension of time granted for stress ... Max Shanahan reports on an awful calamity 

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Sunday
Nov062022

Scandalum magnatum

Murdoch v Crikey ... Round one ... Public interest defence holds up ... Application to strike out the pleadings rejected ... Case management ... Public interest defence has legs and arms ... Why do titans need to crush their critics? ... Another blockbuster  

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