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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
    • The New Yorker
      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 >>

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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Sunday
Sep052021

Google foe goes down before the stipes

• DateSunday, September 5, 2021

Gangland lawyer done for professional misconduct ... Misleading the VLSC ... Relationship dispute ... Acting for one partner when previously acted for the other ... Delays ... Procrastination ... Reckless misstatements ... A good wet lettucing ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case 

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Saturday
Sep042021

Vintage pandemic

• DateSaturday, September 4, 2021

Spanish Flu and Covid-19 ... War and contagion ... Consequences for wine grape harvests ... European and Australian vintages in 1919-1920 compared to 2020-2021 ... Australia's bounteous 2021 wine grape crush ... Excellent fruit all around ... First world issues ... Wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler writes 

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Wednesday
Sep012021

Dispatches from Kabul

• DateWednesday, September 1, 2021

Fear and uncertainty confront the Afghani legal profession ... Lawyers, law and chaos ... Kabul lawyer says his practice has been "suspended" ... Women judges ... Destruction of legal research work at the university ... Return of a Sharia legal system ... Lawyers and judges in flight 

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Wednesday
Sep012021

Send in the clowns

• DateWednesday, September 1, 2021

Curtains up for new court ... FCFCOA is now upon us ... A camel designed by Bookshelves Brandis ... What can go wrong? ... Two Wigs Willy down to one wig ... Limited input from lawyers in development of blockbuster rules and directions ... New titles ... New registrars ... A family lawyer writes 

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Monday
Aug302021

An appetite for malice

• DateMonday, August 30, 2021

A primer on the rise and rise of actions for malicious prosecution - particularly in NSW ... Claimants taking on the state and AVO applicants ... Cases and causes ... What is this tort actually doing? ... Disgruntlement going nowhere ... Anna Kretowicz on the case 

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Friday
Aug272021

I Once Met ... Bob Hawke

• DateFriday, August 27, 2021

Introducing I Once Met ... Readers' recollections about their encounters with the great, the good and the not-so-good ... First in a series ... Leverhulme has a brusque introduction to Bob Hawke in 1989 

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Friday
Aug272021

Old Bufferdom

• DateFriday, August 27, 2021

Kipling on the British retreat from Afghanistan ... Jezails and tulwars win the day ... Lessons of history ... Premature Old Buffers in Oz - Canavan and Sheldon cross swords with the Wiggles ... Doc Evatt before his time ... The Chester case ... Seeing off Frederick Jordan ... Menzies - an artistic philistine ... Procrustes files 

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Tuesday
Aug242021

Who wants silk?

• DateTuesday, August 24, 2021

Scoop ... NSW's 2021 list of senior counsel hopefuls ... Annual festival plays out against wreckage wrought by the plague ... Despair - Depression - And everything in-between ... Exclusive ... Data and details 

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Monday
Aug232021

Stewardship of the revenue realm

, • DateMonday, August 23, 2021

High Court's tax guru overturned by the High Court ... The final word on tax intricacies ... Interests of justice and disclosure of assets ... Running balance accounts and curly questions ... Government looking for "reliability" 

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