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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 ... 


Justinian's archive

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 ... 


 

 

Friday
Jul232021

Time and tide

Porsche driving head of equity being fitted for CJ robes ... Willy or won't he? - Alstergren favoured for Chuckles' job ... The Christian's costly litigation spree ... Biased judges survey ... Wot's going on at the NSW solicitors' society? ... Coincidental political allies appointed to IR gig ... Sharks salute sharks ... Theodora with Goings On 

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Friday
Jul232021

News from Ireland

Back to pokey for Eddie Obeid ... A fresh experience awaits Moses ... Decades of villainy ... Leading NSW crime figures slotted ... Vindication for ICAC's findings and rule of law ... Despair for The Tamil ... Obeid Snr cast as a "political prisoner" ...  Time to crank-up the Free Eddie campaign  

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Wednesday
Jul212021

Wilson's promontory

UPDATE ... Blunders by inexperienced Family Court judge ... Need for dispatch to reeducation camp ... Friends in high places ... Precedent ignored ... Edward Longshanks no help ... Lengthy judgments with irrelevant citations ... "Odd" ... George Pell referenced ... "Perplexing" ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Jul162021

Gideon Haigh

A new book on H.V Evatt, the lawyer, judge and politician, from author and journalist Gideon Haigh ... Exploration of Evatt's dissent in the great nervous shock case Chester v Council of the Waverley Municipality ... What on earth were the other High Court judges thinking? ... Great turning points in law, politics and history ... With some fine attitudes we find Gideon Haigh on Justinian's Couch 

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Wednesday
Jul142021

The evolution of small ideas

How liberty works ... Trickle down conservative thoughts on free speech ... Schism in the ranks ... Law of Rulers Institute denied the implied freedom by a Sammy Griffith favourite ... Reevaluation of Griffith's legacy 

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Monday
Jul122021

Quicksandy

Nye neighs loudly at Circus Court judgment that did not get to grips with the evidence ...  Twigs assembled for a "forensic bird's nest" ... Blots on the judicial escutcheon ... AAT's incompetence ... Eight years later application remains unresolved ... Justice Charlesworth finds more jurisdictional error in the case of an Iranian conscientious objector  

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Thursday
Jul082021

National Treasure

Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view  

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Tuesday
Jul062021

Suspicious minds

Last Chance Saloon lets the government off the hook on indeterminate immigration detention ... Minority judges aghast ... Non-refoulement ... The untethered "state of mind" of government officials ... The new Al-Kateb ... Sayonara habeas corpus ... Procrustes in a funk 

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Monday
Jul052021

Aged care

Former Apple Isle DPP denounces plan to increase the retirement age of judges ... Slings and arrows aimed at the chief justice ... A more youthful and reformist bench is required ... Judges should be refreshed ... Graphs and charts ... Studies on age and mental deterioration ... Tim Ellis puts the case for ageism 

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