Search
This area does not yet contain any content.
Justinian News

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 >> 

Politics Media Law Society


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 >> 

Editor's Choice
Free Newsletter
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 >> 

Blow the whistle

 

News snips ...


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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Jul202022

Native title - and all that baloney

State judges go sour on rights to Indigenous tucker ... Traditional laws and customs not written ... Native Title Act fails to protect customary Aboriginal hunting and fishing ... Whitey judges clueless ... Procrustes sees The Voice as the way forward on customary rights 

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Jul192022

Unstitching over-wrought terror laws

Deficiencies of heavy-handed anti-terror laws ... Police mismanagement and failure to comply ... Covert search warrants ... Preventative detention orders ... Major shake up for continuing detention orders ... Citizenship stripping laws get scrambled ... Max Shanahan dives into the quagmire  

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Jul142022

White man's law

Unlike the nation as a whole, Australia's judiciary is predominantly pale and male ... Composition of courts unrepresentative of the people they serve ... The barristers' pool culturally homogenous ... Coalition's poor record of diverse cultural and gender Federal Court appointments ... Joseph Friedman calls for change 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Jul142022

Assignment Assange

Q & A about Julian Assange with Greg Barns SC, adviser to the Australian Assange Campaign ... Charges ... Journalism ... Espionage Act ... First Amendment ... Extradition decision and the prospects of appeal ... Flight risk ... More from Wikileaks 

Read more 

Friday
Jul082022

British criminal bar in revolt

Dire legal aid conditions bring on strikes by criminal briefs in the Old Dart ... Barristers reporting incomes below the minimum wage ... Delays in payments ... Massive exodus from the profession ... Magic Circle firms booming and bloated, while criminal justice practitioners go into debt ... Misconduct charges threatened by the LCJ ... The decay in legal aid outlined by Max Shanahan 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Jul072022

De Pfeffel fluffs it

Bye-Bye Boris ... What took you so long ... The end of the show for a show pony ... The Queen faced with the Lascelles principles ... Election not an option ... Curious position for the Attorney General ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from a chaotic Blighty 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Jul072022

More silence, less disturbance

Lawn Order ... Governments take on environmentalists ... Looking after workers by prosecuting them ... Keeping everyone "safe" ... Harsh new measures ... Unintended consequences ... Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, and UK ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest crack-downs on protesters 

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Jul052022

The Revolutionary Tribunal

The US Supreme Court has become a Republican law enforcement tribunal ... Abortions, guns, religion, environment ... Cherry-picked legal reasoning ... Historical inaccuracies ... Worse to come ... Same sex marriage in Texas ... Washington correspondent Roger Fitch files 

Read more | Subscribe

Sunday
Jun122022

The news: good, bad and awful

Turnbull and the poisoned fountain of justice ... Doug Meagher and Costigan days remembered ... Retired silk pushing for more speed to reduce the road toll ... Lawyers and law v the public's right to know ... Gongs ... Theodora reports 

Read more | Subscribe