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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 ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >> 

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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Mar232022

Cancelling Dicey

Order of the Gilded Wombat ... Hands on the staff but keep your hands off the gongs ... What about Queen's Counsel? ... Campaign to confiscate honours from sexual offenders ... Comparison with the Einfeld case ... New discrimination and harassment rules for briefs ... Theodora on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar222022

Deadlines drop dead

Tax turmoil ... Computer problems ... Avoidance disorder ... Chronology of mistimed events ... Clinging to the jam roll ... Client work prioritised ... Distinction between personal and professional competence ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Monday
Mar212022

Danger ahead

Bad news from SCOTUS ... Vaccines, climate and discrimination ... State secrets privilege applied in torture cases ... Partisan courts ... Forum shopping for flexible federal judges ... Political control of the state courts ... From Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Monday
Mar212022

A case of who you know

Tom-toms from Brisbane's Bugle ... A story without context ... "ALP buddies on the bench" ... Mix-master on top speed ... The other side of politics even more culpable ... Merit and the Old Mates Act 

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Thursday
Mar172022

The ethnography of law school electives

The subjects they choose ... Divining the character and culture of law students ... What becomes of them? ... Corporations and tax ... Labour law ... Sports law ... Antonin Scalia law ... Human rights .. Equity ... Philosophy ... The different choices are defining ... Barely Legal reports 

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Sunday
Mar132022

Матушка Россия 

The Russian judiciary ... How the Kremlin tamed the judges ... Rule of the state is the same as the rule of law ... Artful selection of the "right" people ... The Kremlin always wins ...  Londongrad and rivers of looted rubles 

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Thursday
Mar102022

Executive overboard

Another top flight management executive leaves the AAT ... Staff attrition ... Morale and harmony unravelled by political picks ... Review of selection process ... Accountability ... Polly Peck reports 

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Tuesday
Mar082022

Damp spirits

Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal 

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Thursday
Mar032022

Foreign affairs

News from far corners ... Western Australia and Tasmania ... SC agitation ... Finding the right appointment "process" ... Displaced Circus Court judge pops up in Hobart ... Outcry over fiddling with the law course at U Tas ... Theodora on the parapet 

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