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Potty Mouth Solicitor Dispatched ... NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults ... Insufficiently professional ... Arrived from Greece with only his underpants ... No contrition ... Anthony Kanaan files ... Read more >>

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The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >> 

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    • The New Yorker
      Israelis are largely ignorant about what is happening in Gaza ... From David Remnick in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
    • Researching International Displacement
      The International Court of Justice's advisory opinion on climate change ... Displacement ... Protection ... Statehood
    • Financial Review
      Lunch with MinterEllison's Peter Bartlett: "I've always had these nightmares about retiring and turning the lights out"
    • The New York Times
      When it comes to taking on Trump in the courts, small law firms fill to void
    • Guardian Australia
      Professor Don Rothwell ANU: There is greater scope for sanctions on Israel and for recognition of the state of Palestine
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Justinian Columnists

Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... From Stephen Murray at the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Read more >> 

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The end looms for Naughty Nathan Buckley ... Lawyer to the sovereign law brigade ... Anti vaxxer ... NCAT calls for his striking from the jam roll ... More >> 

 

Justinian's Bloggers

London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

"Stop accusing Israel deliberately of this egregious falsehood. There is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation."

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netahyahu hoping to give a new meaning to the word "starvation" ... July 28, 2025 ...  Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Apr292022

Getting kids to school

• DateFriday, April 29, 2022

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

• DateFriday, April 29, 2022

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

• DateThursday, April 21, 2022

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

• DateWednesday, April 20, 2022

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

• DateFriday, April 15, 2022

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

• DateThursday, April 14, 2022

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

• DateWednesday, April 13, 2022

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?

• DateFriday, April 8, 2022

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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Thursday
Apr072022

Seeds planted

• DateThursday, April 7, 2022

The slow growing variety ... Climate litigation ... Duty of care ... Sharma case ... Full Feds reluctant to meddle with minister's coal mine approval ... Assumption that politicians can make "wise policy" ... More climate cases in the wings ... Torres Strait case ... Call for bold politicians and brave judges ... Max Shanahan reports 

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