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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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
May312022

Stephen Charles

Stephen Charles AO QC, one of the well-known advocates for a national integrity commission, is on Justinian's Couch ... Career highlights ... Personal weaknesses ... Australia's failing on asylum seekers and refugees ... John Howard's overrated standing ... Would be happy as a teacher 

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Friday
May272022

AAT - a brief history of Coalition connections

Appointments to the AAT from the Brandis, Porter and Cash eras ... 79 party connections identified ... Deputy President again shows her political allegiance ... Plenty of pork ... Another senior member departing ... Tabulation 

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Thursday
May262022

More time with the family

Craig McLachlan's defamation calamity ... Bad time at the reputation repair shop ... Why on earth did he sue? ... Huge bills and a big blot on the escutcheon ... Crowing on Channel 7 did not help ... Significant outcome for journalism and the #MeToo movement ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Wednesday
May252022

The money grab for new grads

Top tier law shops ... Soaring pay packets for law graduates ... Salaries hit $100k for fresh recruits ... Instagram survey ... Pay secrecy and inequality ... Social media collects the numbers ... Henry Chen has the data 

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Tuesday
May172022

Wyvill's war

Darwin's close-knit law and justice patch ... Leading Darwin silk complains to the Judicial Commission about the conduct of a NT Supreme Court judge ... Finding that it was reasonably open to suspect the judge of being "politically partisan" and bearing malice ... Role of chief justice ... Fallout from flawed Stella Maris investigation ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Monday
May162022

Ding Dong

Chief Justice Andrew Bell ... Urging an end to remoteness ... At loggerheads with Victorian counterpart ... Profession in peril ... Conviviality is king ... Trouble padding-up ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Sunday
May152022

The cuckoo's nest

Authorities back off newspaper ban for Crow Eating prisoners ... Madam Cash stars in ABA divine comedy ... Court orders law shop to pay the money back ... Vic's new silks required to keep their hands to themselves ... Job swap in Phillip Street ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
May122022

Anyone for soup?

A Witness of Fact, reviewed by Procrustes ... The shocking case of the under-qualified chief pathologist ... A trail of flawed evidence and miscarried justice ... The dangers of the impregnable loner 

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Wednesday
May042022

Curb your rights

Human rights are far too flakey for this regime ... Captains' picks undermine the independence of the Human Rights Commission ... Global assessment body asks for a proper selection process ... Shameful B-status looms ... Labor Party changes shoes on the Collaery case ... Affront to the rule of law ... Lectures burned at UTas law school ... Theodora reports 

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