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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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      Sumption on Israel's war crimes ... Collective punishment visited on an entire population
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      Judges lobby indignant about criticism of NT Coroner by hack politician
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      Israelis are largely ignorant about what is happening in Gaza ... From David Remnick in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
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      The Constructive Institute ... Journalists urged to let go of the past and be constructive ... Journalism for tomorrow
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      Lunch with MinterEllison's Peter Bartlett: "I've always had these nightmares about retiring and turning the lights out"
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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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The Groths ... Victorian politician brings early privacy action against Murdoch rag and Vic Health Minister ... Claims of sexual relationship with teenager, now his wife ... Will the media defences apply? ... Is this journalism? ... Is it news? ... Field day awaits ... More from the AFR >>

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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 >> 

"I've stopped six wars in the last - I'm averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan, and a lot of them. Congo was just and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I won't go into it very much, because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. They've been fighting for 500 years, intermittently, and we solved that war. You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it ..."

President Donald Trump at a meeting in Scotland with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer ... 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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The Abbott era ... Attorney General Bookshelves Brandis gives a presser to announce the appointment of Michelle Gordon to replace her husband on the High Court ... Ducking on the question of judicial retirement age ... Three cheers for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians ... Another idea that went nowhere ... Justinian's Archive ... April 14, 2015 ... Read more >> 

 

 

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Wednesday
Dec082021

Women rule

, • DateWednesday, December 8, 2021

Gender quotas ... Solicitors elect NSW Law Society Council with an 82% female majority ... Retired judge wants more litigation to bring the ABC to heel ... Questionable evidence to parliamentary committee on litigation funding ... Premier has confidence in conflicted AG after no confidence motion ... Time stretched allows for extra careful detailed review of evidence in a copyright case ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Nov302021

Temby's Tales

• DateTuesday, November 30, 2021

The arc of life ... A memoir from the former inaugural Commonwealth DPP ... The foundation ICAC commissioner ... Momentous decisions ... Searing fallouts ... C.N. Brown reviews With Conviction 

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Monday
Nov292021

Gorgeous George comes to town

• DateMonday, November 29, 2021

Letter from the Dreaming Spires ... High Commissioner to the UK speaks at the Union ... A sprinkling of rapt Young Tories ... Car alarm competing for attention ... Jolly John Kerr told him Betty Windsor was in the clear ... Later rooftop revelries ... Barely Legal reports 

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Sunday
Nov282021

Collateral damage

• DateSunday, November 28, 2021

Practising ticket suspended ... Manager appointed ... Anonymised solicitor unsuccessful in stay application ... Client told incorrect figure for accident payout ... A difference of $130,000 ... Allegedly false invoices for disbursement funding ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Nov262021

The Lady Vanishes

• DateFriday, November 26, 2021

Untitled ... Former executive director of the bar dies ... Babette Smith played a leading role in soothing heated temperaments ... Huge drama over nude painting removed from the bar common room ... Boarding school politics ... Furious letters ... Name calling ... Unsettling events ... TV documentary ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Nov192021

Police prosecutor in Shakespearean succession drama

• DateFriday, November 19, 2021

NSW Supreme Court says prosecutor engaged in "vile" behaviour ... Persecution of step-mother ... False accusation of murder ... Unreliable evidence ... Discreditable conduct by a lawyer ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

Winning ways

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Rockhampton solicitor goes down ... Drunken offering of a "lazy quid" to the constables ... Corruption ... Adornment to the legal caper ... Offer of cash not seen as a joke ... A real charmer ... Foul mouthed bikie lawyer sentenced to the clink ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

An excess of venality

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Guns everywhere for everyone - Supreme Court to decide ... Judiciary stuffed with Trumpists ... Bannon mired in Congressional contempt ... Insurrection of January 6 ... Ex-president consumed by litigation ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

, • DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders ... Freedom ... Sovereignty ... Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy ... Warfare among litigation crowdfunders ... Excitable foot soldiers ... Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace ... Alan Zheng reports 

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