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Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>

 

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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Lib-Nat government of Queensland appoints two new senior judges ... Court of Appeal and Northern Supreme Court ... Doyle KC and Johnstone KC ... Both from the same chambers ... Diversity at work ... More >>

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Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

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 ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Sep072022

Khan caught behind

From cricket hero to alleged terrorist ... Imran Khan's alleged speech offences under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act ... Political opponents sidelined as terrorists ... Where the judiciary plays a political function ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep022022

Students are revolting

Lawyers of tomorrow ... Malcolm Turnbull draws law student protest at his alma mater ... Campus chaos  at University of Sydney ... Students see in Turnbull what they'll be when they grow up ... The unbearable smugness of being ... Max Shanahan reports from the front line 

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Friday
Sep022022

The state of surveillance

Rolling police surveillance at Risdon Prison ... Lawyers and other visitors illegally recorded for over two months ... Case dropped against lawyer on charges of perverting the course of justice ... Trouble at The Map 

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Tuesday
Aug302022

Palletable blueberries

Fresh waywardness from Circuit Court ... Bankruptcy petition over blueberry pallet bills ... Shortcomings in reasons ... Failure to go behind the judgment debt ... Was money actually owed to the creditor? ... Back it goes for rehearing 

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Thursday
Aug252022

Murdoch v Crikey

Starting gun fired ... Ticklish media baron sues independent news publisher ... "Unindicted co-conspirator" in Trump's crimes ... No-one likes to be pushed around by a billionaire bully with an overblown sense of entitlement ... News from The Defamatorium 

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Thursday
Aug252022

The judge in an unstable world

Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the Taliban 

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Wednesday
Aug242022

Dreyfus' affairs

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and his agenda ... Massive reform agenda after years of neglect and paralysis ... Overtones of Lionel Murphy's busy era as AG ... National security ...Whistleblowers ... Human rights ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Aug182022

Bigots' Corner

Peach Melba with the latest from Yarraside ... Crude notice crisis ... Lift poster sent to the Bureau ... Christian judge from the Saloon comes to the Athenaeun Club ... Learn how not to sexually harasses anyone and win CPD points 

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Tuesday
Aug162022

The wilder shores of contempt

Senior bar figures and solicitors in the dock for contempt ... Alleged breach of suppression order ... Shoe on the attorney general's other foot ... Skirmishes with a long history ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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