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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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


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 >> 


 

 

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 

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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 

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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 

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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 

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Friday
Jun102022

Love, New Zealand style

Polyamorous relationships and property law ... A single love triangle where "couple" means three ... With diagrams ... Winding up the polycule ... Multi-partner relationships the new-new thing ... Leave to appeal granted ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Jun092022

Civil Procedure and the Old Testament

In search of dispute resolution ... What the Bible tells us about negotiation and arbitration ... Eve and the serpent - a failure to negotiate properly ... Catastrophic consequences ... King Solomon and the Commercial Arbitration Act ... Just, quick and cheap ... Eamonn Murphy and Ariana Haghighi escape from a dry tutorial 

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Friday
Jun032022

Street Watch

Federal judge spanked for running the case ... Too much intervention ... Judicial cross-examination ... Rehearing ... Start again ... Also, allowance granted to AAT for "unattributed copying" ... Two-third of a judgment lifted from a party's submissions ... Max Shanahan reports courtside  

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Friday
Jun032022

Labor's law

Mark Dreyfus' agenda ... A process of Demorrisonification ... The NIC ... Refenenda galore - The Voice, The Republic ... Whistleblowing and other freedoms - Collaery, Assange ... The quality of tribunal and commission appointments ... High Court vacancies ... Bureau chief Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Wednesday
Jun012022

SCOTUS hollows out America

US Supreme Court ... Overturning Roe v Wade and other travesties ... Using religious beliefs to alter secular law ... Gutting civil rights remedies ... Looser gun regulations ... The malignant Fifth Circuit ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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