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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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Monday
Oct252021

"Bruz" Barilaro's unwise defamation action

• DateMonday, October 25, 2021

Politicians who sue for defamation ... Artemus Jones questions the wisdom of this strategy ... Jibes best left well alone and kept out of court ... Satirist wants attention ... John Barilaro caught up in interlocutory disputes ... What's the point? 

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Sunday
Oct242021

I Once Met ... Idi Amin

• DateSunday, October 24, 2021

Journalist and champion swimmer Alex Mitchell in the pool with the President of Uganda ... The lap that Field Marshal Amin won ... Lord of All The Beasts of the Earth ... Lured into an interview by flattery ... Rifling the presidential desk ... Bodies in the lake ... Scary time in Kampala 

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Friday
Oct222021

Jo Dyer

• DateFriday, October 22, 2021

Jo Dyer was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when she became an advocate for her deceased friend Kate - after Kate's accusations of rape against then attorney general Christian Porter were posthumously made public ... The theatre, film, television and festival producer is On The Couch 

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Thursday
Oct212021

Willy Alstergren gets it right

• DateThursday, October 21, 2021

Final word from the Saloon ... Judge and barrister in chit-chats during trial in which both were involved ... Timeline of connections ... Drinkies, coffee and texting ... Not a good look ... Curious reasons from Full Family Court majority ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct192021

Nitram

, • DateTuesday, October 19, 2021

Miss Lumière is back in the cinema ... The alienated life of Martin Bryant ... A strange inheritance ...Guns and cash ... The story leading up to the Port Arthur massacre 

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Thursday
Oct142021

What's wrong with silk selection

• DateThursday, October 14, 2021

The NSW bar's senior counsel mechanism... A club with no rule of law ... Smoke and mirrors ... Failed applicants led up the garden path ... Distortions imposed by secrecy ... Sydney barrister, silk applicant and litigant against the bar association, David Smallbone, explains  

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Thursday
Oct142021

I Once Met ... Lord Denning

• DateThursday, October 14, 2021

As a law student Tom Kelly met Tom Denning ... Visiting lecture in Sydney ... Problem of the missing teeth ... No recollection of what was said ... Later realisation that the Master of the Rolls may not have been such a wonderful chap ... Confusion about the Dennings 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

The Toll of an intimidating legal threat

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Hobart law shop issued disgraceful defamation letter to young victim of sexual harassment ... Defamation bluster ... Abuse of power imbalance ... Effect on emotional wellbeing ... Aggravated damages ... Max Shanahan reporting 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

Ominous agenda of SCOTUS' supermajority

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Stonewalling the January 6 investigation ... Obstruction of justice is flavour of the season ... Midterm dangers ... Huge report on attempted subversion of the DoJ ... Supreme Court docket ... "State secrets" ... Legal theory in support of election heist ... From Washington Roger Fitch reports 

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