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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
May022022

Tribulation at the tribunal

AAT ... Liberal appointment makes a hash of it ... Failed to engage with submissions ... Misapplication of the law ... Start again ... Pre-election festival of appointments ... 12 years after a compensation claim was filed there's still no final determination ... Obstruction and errors 

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Friday
Apr292022

Getting kids to school

NSW ... March of the state ... Regulatory paralysis of the right to protest ... Law n' Order ... Roads, bridges, tunnels, smelters, steelworks, ports, coal-fired power stations - all out of bounds ... Perrottet and pals take on the activists ... Max Shanahan reporting 

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Friday
Apr292022

Trump judges rule the roost

Unqualified judicial appointments prop-up Republican agenda ... Gerrymanders tip democracy off its perch ... Tame media recycles the fictions ... CJ Roberts changes sides ... Government torture back on the rack ... America the not-so-beautiful ... Roger Fitch,  Our Man in Washington, reports 

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Thursday
Apr212022

Freeing judges to be human

Sifting the digital histories of lawyers headed to the judiciary ... Social media engagement that shows a life led more fully may also act as a disqualification ... Judges being louche as youngsters is not something we're used to ... We should adapt, otherwise the selection pond gets smaller ... From Nina Dillon Britton 

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Wednesday
Apr202022

At the Vladitorium

It has been headline time for Vlad the Impaler ... Esteemed employee struck off the jam roll ... Atanaskovic Hartnell even wanted to charge the client for tracking his stolen money ... Then there was the Elizabeth Kelly case ... The bully division ... Fear of managing partner's tendency to "denigrate" and hold "grudges" ... Max Shanahan and Henry Chen report 

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Friday
Apr152022

No tickets on him

Barrister with personality issues ... Plying the trade while unticketed ... Multiple breaches ... Nose thumbed at authority of the court ... Criminal contempt ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Apr142022

Regulatory poodle

ASIC ... Corporate watchdog with muted bark ... Frydenberg's defenestration of Hayne's work ... Major lapses not investigated ... Unhelpful judicial decisions ... Shareholders and the public in peril ... Henry Chen reports 

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Wednesday
Apr132022

Free association

Former judge's associate wants compensation ... Relationship with judge ... Claims she was ashamed and humiliated after Supreme Court intervention ... Court process likely to be examined by equal opportunity authority ... Judges' discomforted by unfortunate turn of events ... From our Tasmanian Affairs desk 

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Friday
Apr082022

Is all really fair in Love and Thoms?

Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken suspicion based on citizenship status ... Migration Act ... Background, arguments and implications ...Difficult challenge for the High Court ... Codey Swadling reports 

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