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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 >>

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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 ... 


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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 ... 


 

 

Thursday
Nov182021

An excess of venality

Guns everywhere for everyone - Supreme Court to decide ... Judiciary stuffed with Trumpists ... Bannon mired in Congressional contempt ... Insurrection of January 6 ... Ex-president consumed by litigation ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders ... Freedom ... Sovereignty ... Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy ... Warfare among litigation crowdfunders ... Excitable foot soldiers ... Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

I once met ... Joh Bjelke-Petersen

The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975 

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Friday
Nov122021

Vital snippets

No mug for Cash ... Simon bucks High Court tradition ... Defrocked barrister goes into the consulting business ... Deselecting Black jurors ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Nov102021

Forward to the '50s

Update ... New-Old guard sweeps back at Vic Bar's election ... Conservative candidates with the big how-to-vote brochures ... More of the same ... Elites swiping other elites ... Fury at pandemic management legislation ... Stasi in charge ... Career crippling mojitos at Tory silk's gaff  ... Shadow AG's crashes his career ... Phew 

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Tuesday
Nov092021

Cough ... Cough

Fresh letter from the Spires ... Cacophony of coughing at students' matriculation ceremony ... Viral spray covers everything in Covid ravaged landscape ... Shift work for the vice-chancellor ... Barely Legal reports 

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Friday
Nov052021

That's Life

It's Double Bay, darling ... Woolworths ... Harris Farm ... Fighting for prime retail patch ... Law firm's negligence ... Maddocks in the frame for $13 million ... Record damages 

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Monday
Nov012021

Gladys and the magic love circle

Spin campaign runs out of puff ... Demonstration of the compelling need for ICAC ... Cornered by the evidence ... Terror of the tapes ... Daryl's key to the front door ... Fresh interpretation of the ministerial code ... The need for secrecy ... Artemus Jones has been following the ICAC hearings 

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Monday
Nov012021

I Once Met ... Angelo Vasta

Discussion on mental health during Greek law conference ... Cruising the Aegean in dress shoes ... Wig and gown for tribunal hearings ... Dull, boring presentation from the judge ... Question from the rear of the room ... Tom Kelly remembers 

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