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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
    • Australian Judicial Officers Association
      Judges lobby indignant about criticism of NT Coroner by hack politician
    • The New Yorker
      Israelis are largely ignorant about what is happening in Gaza ... From David Remnick in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
    • The Politics
      The Constructive Institute ... Journalists urged to let go of the past and be constructive ... Journalism for tomorrow
    • Financial Review
      Lunch with MinterEllison's Peter Bartlett: "I've always had these nightmares about retiring and turning the lights out"
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Justinian Columnists

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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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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Tuesday
Oct122021

MPs clip SA ICAC in record time

• DateTuesday, October 12, 2021

The integrity wars continue ... ICACs everywhere under assault ... South Australian politicians eviscerate the state's anti-corruption body ... Strange timing ... Looking after the patch ... Attorney General investigated over possible conflicts ... Max Shanahan reporting

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Wednesday
Oct062021

Bar's health report

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

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

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

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

, • DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

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

• DateThursday, September 30, 2021

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"

• DateMonday, September 27, 2021

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

• DateSunday, September 26, 2021

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

• DateSunday, September 26, 2021

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

• DateWednesday, September 22, 2021

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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