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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 ... 


 

 

Saturday
Oct302021

Letter from the Dreaming Spires

Barely Legal has moved to one of the great colleges in the green and pleasant land ... His first encounter with the college toffs ... Important to get the language right 

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Monday
Oct252021

Where to begin ...

The Banksia retirement home ... Bar Prez's warning about excessive fees ... VCAT's building list in disarray ... Cases sent to the never-never ... Tasmanian government's High Court strategy - two is better than one ... Ron Brierley knows nothing ... Anthony Mason's mid-nonagenarian celebrations get jammed ... Theodora reports on the latest Goings On 

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Monday
Oct252021

"Bruz" Barilaro's unwise defamation action

Politicians who sue for defamation ... Artemus Jones questions the wisdom of this strategy ... Jibes best left well alone and kept out of court ... Satirist wants attention ... John Barilaro caught up in interlocutory disputes ... What's the point? 

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Sunday
Oct242021

I Once Met ... Idi Amin

Journalist and champion swimmer Alex Mitchell in the pool with the President of Uganda ... The lap that Field Marshal Amin won ... Lord of All The Beasts of the Earth ... Lured into an interview by flattery ... Rifling the presidential desk ... Bodies in the lake ... Scary time in Kampala 

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Friday
Oct222021

Jo Dyer

Jo Dyer was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when she became an advocate for her deceased friend Kate - after Kate's accusations of rape against then attorney general Christian Porter were posthumously made public ... The theatre, film, television and festival producer is On The Couch 

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Thursday
Oct212021

Willy Alstergren gets it right

Final word from the Saloon ... Judge and barrister in chit-chats during trial in which both were involved ... Timeline of connections ... Drinkies, coffee and texting ... Not a good look ... Curious reasons from Full Family Court majority ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct192021

Nitram

Miss Lumière is back in the cinema ... The alienated life of Martin Bryant ... A strange inheritance ...Guns and cash ... The story leading up to the Port Arthur massacre 

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Thursday
Oct142021

What's wrong with silk selection

The NSW bar's senior counsel mechanism... A club with no rule of law ... Smoke and mirrors ... Failed applicants led up the garden path ... Distortions imposed by secrecy ... Sydney barrister, silk applicant and litigant against the bar association, David Smallbone, explains  

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Thursday
Oct142021

I Once Met ... Lord Denning

As a law student Tom Kelly met Tom Denning ... Visiting lecture in Sydney ... Problem of the missing teeth ... No recollection of what was said ... Later realisation that the Master of the Rolls may not have been such a wonderful chap ... Confusion about the Dennings 

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