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Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>

 

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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Another special from Justice Wendy Abraham ... Sofronoff to have his day in court in challenge to ACT Intregrity Commission corruption findings ... Parliamentary privilege does not apply to the report ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Oct062021

Bar's health report

NSW bar ... Covid creates a different world for barristers ... Can it ever be the same again? ... Clinging on ... The chambers model's uncertain future ... Expenses trimmed ... Curate's egg ... Some parts thriving ... Younger briefs need helping hands ... JJJ hearings 

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Wednesday
Oct062021

I once met ... Arnold Schwarzenegger

Communications and branding guru and former ABC producer Julian Canny met Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s ... The briefest interview that ever made it to air ... Arnie at "optimum extension" ... Aunty's scratched footage 

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Wednesday
Oct062021

Warning - Danger Ahead

NSW goes back to the future ... Cabinet shuffle looming ... Anti-corruption firebrand chafing in the nether region ... Judicial recognition of the Taliban ... New eftpos machine arrives in Hobart ... Angelo Vasta RIP ... Rule of law hysterics about ICAC ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep302021

Everyone's revolting

Leverhulme on bloody activists ... Motorway blockages ... Labour conference at Brighton ... Lord Brown has  Second Helpings ... Barry Humphries' book of revenge ... Soaring gas prices, petrol shortages ... Turner Art Prize goes dark and mumbly ... London Calling 

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Monday
Sep272021

Police causing death in "good faith"

NT policeman charged with murder of Indigenous man ... High Court to hear special leave and appeal together ... Core functions of police force ... Protection for civil or criminal acts committed by police ... How far does police protection run? ... "Unjustified" trial delay ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Sunday
Sep262021

I Once Met ... Margaret Thatcher

David Bennett QC had an encounter at the House of Lords ... Former PM Margaret Thatcher on the supremacy of parliament ... Frosty view on Australian constitutional checks and balances 

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Sunday
Sep262021

Stuck in the mud

Shocking case of protracted lying to a client ... Tasmanian misconduct ... Unconscionable delays ... Failure to commence workers compensation proceedings for five years ... Elaborate pretence ... Desperation ... Other troubles ... Farewell to the jam roll 

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Wednesday
Sep222021

I Once Met ... Paul Keating

Prime Minister Keating arrives at a Labor Party fundraiser in Darwin where he meets a star-struck Buffalo Bruce ... 1994, a time of harsh CLP criminal justice laws ... Native Title Act and the reconciliation movement also at work ... Synchronistic forces at play 

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Wednesday
Sep222021

Lessons learned, but no SIGAR

Report by Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction extracted by FOI ... Truth about the prospect of victory withheld ... Misleading accounts retailed to the public ... Consequences for refugee applicants ... Onwards to Tasmania and the good boat Four Winds ... Appeal misadventure in the Neil-Fraser case ... Second appeal falters ... Awaiting judgment ... Procrustes files from the ramparts  

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