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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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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 >> 


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 >> 


 

 

Sunday
Aug222021

Quash denied

Complaint about a lawyer's delays, fees and cost agreements ... Bureau de Spank finds complaint not entirely outside statutory limitation ... Tas CJ throws out judicial review ... Absurd situation ... Anonymity ... No contempt ... The Map ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Aug202021

The "academy" under assault

Book worm review by Anna Kretowicz... Who Gets to be Smart ... A broken education system propping-up the old world order ... The "truth" behind Rhodes and his scholars ... Production mill for elites ... Confusion and insecurities abound 

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Monday
Aug162021

Remembering Doug Campbell

The Prothonotary v Campbell ... The upstanding Tamworth lawyer who fell from grace ... Law Society's lame efforts at purging the profession ... Plundering a deranged client's wealthy estate ... False swearing and perjury ... Attempt to cover-up moral and ethical lapse ... Greed got the better of an "unimpeachable" character 

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Friday
Aug132021

Celebrity solicitor pinged in Foster scam

Gold Coast money dreams ... Trading-Gambling scheme comes unglued ... Investors cleaned out ... Identity of conman hidden ... False and misleading conduct ... Solicitor aware of misrepresentations ... Various squirrelling activities ... Appeal fails ... Anna Kretowicz on the case 

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Thursday
Aug122021

Struggling out of the quagmire

The Roberts Supreme Court Court and its obstructions ... Gerrymanders could see the Republicans take back the House ... Members of the "sedition caucus" to testify before January 6 committee ... Big money behind the claims of election fraud ... Trouble ahead for Trump lawyers ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, reports 

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Monday
Aug092021

Winter Wonderland

Life in lockdown proving perilous for parties in Willy Alstergren's speedy callover regime for the Family and Circuit Courts ... Callovers for cases already resolved or in their final stages ... Pandemonium 

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Sunday
Aug082021

Shrill senator in meltdown over Burnside blitzkrieg

UPDATE ... WA bar president pens feisty free-speech letter to preposterous backbench noise machine ... Demands that silk be stripped of gongs ... Loose thinking ... WA bar reaches out in support of the right to express offensive views ... Groper reports 

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Sunday
Aug082021

Redaction report - latest

What's going on? ... Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side ... Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues ... Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues ... Doom beckons if identity is revealed ... Hanging by a threat ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Aug062021

Letter from Blighty

Anti-woke "ice-breakers" land solicitor in the freezer ... Postman's trespassing fingers and liability for a Boxer bite ... Snicker munching Syrian cooks up a storm in London ... Leverhulme reports 

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