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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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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 >>

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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 ... 


 

 

Sunday
Aug082021

Redaction report - latest

What's going on? ... Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side ... Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues ... Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues ... Doom beckons if identity is revealed ... Hanging by a threat ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Aug062021

Letter from Blighty

Anti-woke "ice-breakers" land solicitor in the freezer ... Postman's trespassing fingers and liability for a Boxer bite ... Snicker munching Syrian cooks up a storm in London ... Leverhulme reports 

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Thursday
Aug052021

Put and call

Expensive family law shop divorce ... Negligent advice to stroke partner unable to work ... Incomplete advice ... NSW CA shaves nearly half-a-million from Rothman J's award of damages ... Commercial law firm still up for about $1 million in damages ... Misery ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Aug052021

Hal Wootten

Obituary for Hal Wootten AC QC ... 1922-2021 ... Barrister - Law dean - Judge - Law reform commissioner - Royal commissioner - Press Council chairman - Environmentalist ... Indigenous rights and protections ... The cause of Palestinians ... Lawyer with a wide reach  

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Monday
Aug022021

In the Lee of the spoken word

Don't bring your affidavits to Justice Lee ... Federal Court judge delivers a bollicking ... In remembrance of Lord Buckmaster ... Witnesses statements by affidavit ... Herbert Smith Freehills in the frame ... Inauthentic accounts of evidence ... Leaky wells ... Legal drafting supplants "real words" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Sunday
Aug012021

Uncivil disobedience

Window into a weird world ... Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers ... Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information ... Harassment ... Media lawyers at 10 paces ... Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks ... Crowdfunding for High Court challenge ... Whether funds held in trust ... Alan Zheng reporting 

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Saturday
Jul312021

Clerkship chaos

Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line 

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Friday
Jul302021

Solicitor seeking closed shop treatment

Suppression order sought but not granted ... Legal Services Commissioner's jurisdictional drama ... Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal ... Application to suppress details rejected ... Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed ... Feelings of despair ... Less work ... Snubbed ... Huge expense ... Law Reform Commission ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Jul292021

Chile by night

In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike 

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