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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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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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      Federal government slices and dices the law firms on the drip for Commonwealth work
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      The debate ... The history of presidential debates and their consequence for elections
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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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 ... 

 

 

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Sunday
Sep262021

Stuck in the mud

• DateSunday, September 26, 2021

Shocking case of protracted lying to a client ... Tasmanian misconduct ... Unconscionable delays ... Failure to commence workers compensation proceedings for five years ... Elaborate pretence ... Desperation ... Other troubles ... Farewell to the jam roll 

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Wednesday
Sep222021

I Once Met ... Paul Keating

• DateWednesday, September 22, 2021

Prime Minister Keating arrives at a Labor Party fundraiser in Darwin where he meets a star-struck Buffalo Bruce ... 1994, a time of harsh CLP criminal justice laws ... Native Title Act and the reconciliation movement also at work ... Synchronistic forces at play 

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Wednesday
Sep222021

Lessons learned, but no SIGAR

• DateWednesday, September 22, 2021

Report by Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction extracted by FOI ... Truth about the prospect of victory withheld ... Misleading accounts retailed to the public ... Consequences for refugee applicants ... Onwards to Tasmania and the good boat Four Winds ... Appeal misadventure in the Neil-Fraser case ... Second appeal falters ... Awaiting judgment ... Procrustes files from the ramparts  

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Thursday
Sep162021

I Once Met ... Lionel Murphy 

• DateThursday, September 16, 2021

The editor meets Lionel Murphy for the first time ... But not the only time ... Unfolding the Whitlam government's agenda in the senate leader's office ... New wallpaper ... An unexpected interruption ... Interview with cub reporter 

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Thursday
Sep162021

Trust me - I'm blind

• DateThursday, September 16, 2021

An abundance of caution ... Porter sunk and lost on the "fit and proper" standard ... The politician who shot himself in both knees ... End is nigh ... Previous explanations full of holes ... More about the trust 

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Tuesday
Sep142021

The tail end of the American century

• DateTuesday, September 14, 2021

Decline and fall following 9/11 ... Damage wrought by the "war on terror" ... Democracy looks wobbly ... Brigade of unscrupulous lawyers shredded the law ... Nacht und Nebel ... Guantánamo detainees now in the Taliban government ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Friday
Sep102021

Vlad impaled

• DateFriday, September 10, 2021

A WIN win ... Atanaskovic unsuccessful in fight over bill ... Client charged for investigation into money filched by firm's employee ... Promise not to charge ... Work infected by conflict ... No informed consent ... Goodbye $150,000 ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Sep102021

Vignettes

, • DateFriday, September 10, 2021

Chambers lockdown as Covid strikes gilded floor ... Cows come home in well-executed judicial flourish ... Family lawyers urged to wise-up to "reputation risk management" ... Magistrate sticks his beak into reworking the prosecution case ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep092021

Western mail

• DateThursday, September 9, 2021

Laying it on thick at swearing-in ceremonies ... Facts ignored in the face of too much grovel ...  Quick judge spanked for slowing down the works ... Anti-rights zealot plonked into the human rights chair ... Groper reports from Perth 

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