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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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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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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... 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 >> 


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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
Feb182022

Legitimate political discourse

Net closing, all too slowly, on Trump ... Deserted by accountants ... Flushing papers ... Destruction and obstruction ... Supreme Court odds-on the uphold racial gerrymanders ... Voting rights for the chopper ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Feb152022

Birds on the wire

God cancels judges' birthdays ... Freedom from religious violence ... Victorian barristers told to be nice to each other ... Pole positions for NSW CJ ... Judge whacks silk for unworthiness ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Feb152022

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Bosnian war crimes ... The Srebrenica massacre ... The fruitless struggle to save a family ... Failure of the United Nations and NATO ... Europe's worst bloodshed since WW11 ... Miss Lumière at the cinema  

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Saturday
Feb122022

Great stinks

No planning, please, we're neoliberals ... Puerile advice from the AFR ... Forbidden ideas that have to be shot down by wizened press oligarch's dancing bears ... Morrison's leaden routine versus the spritz of Boris Johnson ... Procrustes files 

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Wednesday
Feb092022

A brief history of abortion reform in NSW

Campaigning barrister and politician ... The Heatherbrae case with Aaron Levine ... Meaning of unlawfully in the Crimes Act ... Arrangement between police and abortion campaigners ... In 2019 NSW became the last state to decriminalise abortion ... Tom Kelly writes 

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Tuesday
Feb082022

Glorious Accession Day

A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart 

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Friday
Feb042022

Fresh hell

Silk gets unreserved by Map eatery ... Brain drain at Syd's Bar 'n' Grill ... The ACT's reserve bin ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Facts and figments

Sorry Sandy ... Judicial friends take divergent paths ... "Plainly wrong" ... "High esteem" ... Immigration assessments made prior to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan ... Ignoring the changed circumstances in the Islamic Emirate ... Comity and "principle" ... FCFC judges at sixes and sevens ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Year in the rear

2021 down the gurgler ... Recapping some easily forgettable moments before we're entirely drowning in 2022 ... Glimpses of Justinian's restless news reports ... A year of lawyers and the law 

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