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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 ... 


Justinian's archive

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 ... 


 

 

Thursday
Mar042021

Porter in a storm

"It just didn't happen" ... But will it go away? ... Pushing through ... Holes in the case ... First law officer with an unresolved allegation of rape ... Career on hold, but ultimately kaput ... Polly Peck on the case 

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Tuesday
Mar022021

Alleged rapist on the cusp of a statement

Prêt à porter ... Horse in fetid stable ... Rule of Law ... Rule of the Jungle ... Political imperatives ... Statement expected in bold volte face ... Polly Peck reports

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Thursday
Feb252021

Beak bleat

Madges under pressure ... NSW's chief beak Graeme Henson unhappy with slow government response to Local Court crisis ... Pleading for more resources on multiple occasions ... New appointments filling retirements ... 10 more Madges needed ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Tuesday
Feb232021

Appeal judges twiddle the knobs

Walter Mitty con artist gets lower sentence from the NSW CCA ... Ponzi schemer fleeced friends, lovers and whoever else he could get his hands on ... Deficient personality ... Original sentence excessive and the result of an unbalanced process ... Too much judicial emotion ... Pep-talk to the media on reporting sentences ... Victims still largely penniless ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Feb192021

Empty gaffs on Martin Place

Covid puts a false gloss on chamber's accounts ... Directors in and out ... Explanatory memo to members ... Creative fiction and negative expenses ... Big pile of unpaid floor fees ... Refreshments cut 

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Thursday
Feb182021

Counsel's advice on spinach puffs

Enduring a miserable scholarship ceremony ... How the victim of a Westpac bank robbery restored Barely Legal's faith in the pinstripe prison ... The informative Uber driver ... Two canapés too many 

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Wednesday
Feb172021

The three percent

Easy leader ... Melbourne silk's dominant brain ... Thought processes divided into four categories ... Porter's ball management ... AG's top agenda items for 2021 ... The vision splendid ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Feb162021

High Ground

If you occupy the high ground, you control everything ... A white man's war-time notion ... Colonial invasion in all its savagery ... The King's law confronts justice for the dispossessed ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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Thursday
Feb112021

Lunar New Year

Grand Poobah judicial snog ... Thirst-quenching at fault ... Late night knee balancing routine ... News from The Map ... Photo in circulation ... From our Tasmanian affairs correspondent 

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