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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 ... 


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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 ... 


 

 

Monday
Apr192021

The line of duty

Coppers from Strike Force Raptor harass NSW country solicitor acting for a bikie ... Intimidation ... Stalked, shaken and stirred ... Prevented from representing the client ... A good wet lettuceing ... Law Society knocks on the commissioner's door ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Apr162021

Ben Roberts-Smith is Stoked

As Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan the war involving VC recipient Ben Robert-Smith heats up ... New allegations against the former soldier ... Defamation proceedings have not kyboshed fresh news breaks ... Kerry Stokes' role as a litigation funder ... Hero worship knows no bounds ... Important trial for journalism and public interest reporting 

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Thursday
Apr082021

Theodora in the trenches

Robe row ... Election barrister endorses tanning mousse ... It's April 1 at the WA bar ... Federal Court's Yarraside women's problem ... Rule of Law cult overturns Kunc opinion ... From Theodora 

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Tuesday
Apr062021

The Courier

The Cold War and its spies ... Getting military secrets out of the Soviet Union ... Cuban missile crisis ... Khrushchev unhinged ... Let's Twist Again ... How MI6 and the CIA betrayed their informant ... Benedict Cumberbatch, as the ordinary Greville Wynne, comes to the "rescue" ... Miss Lumière at the flicks

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Thursday
Apr012021

Appeal judges - the boiling frogs of Hong Kong

Hong Kong ... National Security Law ... Court of Final Appeal ... Judicial independence ... Are the non-permanent judges compromised? ... Reassessment following Spigelman's departure ... Australian judges cling on ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Wednesday
Mar312021

A passionate Scot

Top End capers ... NT judge says she was defamed by silk in an article in which she wasn't named ... Article said to be indefensible ... Judge threatens to take it further ... History of bad blood ... Journalist complains about ripe language from barrister ... Another first ... Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin 

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Tuesday
Mar302021

Scratching for $110

Showdown at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Yarraside bar's crablike crawl away from Law Council divorce ... Rethinking the options ... A large group of concerned barristers circulate objections to executive decision ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Mar292021

Border lockdown for unticketed brief

Unlicensed in Sydney ... Brief expunged from the jam roll while licensed in Victoria and Queensland ... Trying to get around bar exams failures ... Main place of business was NSW ... Tottering raft of constitutional arguments ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Mar292021

Letter from Blighty

Tories meddling with the wheels of justice ... Johnson government wants to bring the Supreme Court to heel ... Too much "judicial activism" ... Clamping down on judicial reviews of administrative decisions ... Increased statutory senility ... Lord Chancellor has strange thoughts about linchpins ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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