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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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      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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Nov032022

Heaven's gateway

• DateThursday, November 3, 2022

Vic Bar readers' course and exam ... Monstrously hard exam with high failure rate ... Clogged course ... Bulging waiting lists ... Skewed demographic of bar entrants ... The overflow ... Barriers to entry ... Joseph Friedman reports 

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Wednesday
Nov022022

On the rack

• DateWednesday, November 2, 2022

UN's torture inspectors turn tail ... Rebuffed in Queanbeyan ... Snail like progress on compliance system ... Funding snafu ... Australia's new human rights agenda takes a hit ... Max Shanahan with the story 

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Monday
Oct312022

Recklessly different

• DateMonday, October 31, 2022

NSW Law Society swaps sides to support the solicitor it had wanted struck off ... NCAT out of line in trust account case ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Law Society's original complaint lacked clarity ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct252022

Furious activity

, • DateTuesday, October 25, 2022

Vic's bar in ructions over election ticket ... NSW bar loses another fine old hand ... Bookshelves Brandis - a threat to the rule of law ... Alarm on appeal filing fees ... KC ordered out of court ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Oct232022

Marijuana mañana

• DateSunday, October 23, 2022

The ins and outs of cannabis legalisation ... Proposals from Greens senator David Shoebridge ... Constitutional possibilities ... Forget the states ... Let the Commonwealth light-up ... External affairs ... Patents ... Referral powers ... Max Shanahan takes a puff 

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Friday
Oct212022

Vote early, vote often

• DateFriday, October 21, 2022

Law Society of NSW ... Election watch ... Vote for a revamped council ... Proxies and pressure ... Lack of transparency on expenditures ... Consultant babble ... Other reforms are more pressing ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Oct142022

The Large Firm Society

• DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Sweeping constitutional change for the Phillip Street lawyers' temple ... Handing control to the top dogs ... Resistance mounts ... AGM looms ... Patronage possibilities ... NZ Law Society loses a president ... Cultural review ... Theodora files 

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Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

, • DateFriday, October 14, 2022

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

• DateWednesday, October 12, 2022

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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