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Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >> 

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Cohn Man ... The ghost of Roy Cohn and the remaking of politics … Cancelling The Apprentice … Anticipatory obedience … NACC Major General’s partially apprehended … Stickler for rectitude … Meretricious sexual services ... Read on ... 

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  • Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases
    • Supreme Court of Western Australia
      Nine new senior counsel appointed in WA
    • The Guardian
      Rebecca Solnit ... The US election outcome ... "Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do"
    • Robert Beech-Jones
      High Court judge on lawyers who stood in the path of tyrants ... A grim speech for grim times
    • Judicial Commission of NSW
      Complaint by NSW DPP about the conduct of Judge Peter Whitford DCJ ... Findings by the NSW Judicial Commission in full ... Falling short of the standards required of a judicial officer
    • NACC Inspector's Report
      Report into failure of procedural fairness and natural justice by MACC commissioner Paul Brereton ... Apprehension. of partiality

How not to ask law 'n' order questions in the House of Commons ... More >>

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Justinian Columnists

Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >> 

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The government wants to publish the secret chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission ... If someone who is yet to be appointed gives permission ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Mistakes of law or fact are a professional inevitability for judges, tribunal members and administrative decision makers."  

Paul Brereton, Commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission, downplaying the Inspector's finding of bias and procedural unfairness with his conflicted involvement in the decision making about Robodebt referrals ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ... 

Justinian's archive

A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

, • DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

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

• DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

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

, • DateFriday, November 12, 2021

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

, • DateWednesday, November 10, 2021

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

• DateTuesday, November 9, 2021

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

• DateFriday, November 5, 2021

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

• DateMonday, November 1, 2021

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

• DateMonday, November 1, 2021

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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Saturday
Oct302021

Letter from the Dreaming Spires

• DateSaturday, October 30, 2021

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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