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Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered  ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>

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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

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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Tuesday
Aug162022

It's fixed

UPDATED ... Appointment of new ICAC commissioners in NSW ... Widely regarded Supreme Court nominee overlooked as chief commissioner in favour of an undistinguished District Court judge ... Interviewed after the decision about the successful candidate had already been made ... Appointment process riddled with oddities 

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Monday
Aug152022

Primary colours

Democracy US-style ... November elections where Big Lie candidates abound ... Key states in the grip of Trump-nominated electoral officials ... Hundreds of new state laws to reshape the vote ... GOP plan for permanent minority government, with assistance from the Supreme Court ... Trouble in wait for Republicans' Pravda ... Roger Fitch's reports from our Washington bureau 

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Sunday
Aug142022

Prima Facie

Sexual assault and the law ... Rape (alleged) by a member of chambers ... Suzie Miller's play brought to the screen ... Jodie Comer is chilling - and thrilling ... Scorching indictment of the law .... Miss Lumière at the National Theatre (Live) 

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Friday
Aug122022

Sisyphean tasks

Judges and their impartiality ... The long neglected territory of complaints about federal judges ... Teaching humility ... Gingering up appointments ... Data collection to pin point judicial outliers ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with the bold work of the ALRC 

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