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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 ... 


 

 

Tuesday
Jan052021

Slip, slop, slap

Tasmanian brief and the "ethnically" charged threat to international students ... Threat withdrawn ... Multiple texts at strange hours demanding payment of $650 ... You can't take Ipswich out of the man ... 5G conspiracies ... The former MP's "distinguished" political career saved his bacon ... Unprofessional conduct ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Dec242020

Law actually

COVID fallout ... Step-by-step ... State-by-state ... Anna Kretowicz takes us through a year of gyrations, fashions and fear of missing out ... Pork pies from the pizza shop ... Scotty's moment in the sun ... Lockdowns ... Goodbye section 92 ... 'Straya, we love you 

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Wednesday
Dec232020

Close to you

Border commissar Mark McGowan ... The politics of WA's secessionist fantasies ... Section 92 in play ... Waiting for Palmer ... Conservative ideas to tame the ABC ... In the car with the Carpenters ... Procrustes tunes into dead white males

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Not him too ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape in New York's Sofitel ... Victim monstered by lawyers ... Elaborate conspiracy theories ... The same old story ... Director General of the IMF blows-up a beautiful political future ... Miss Lumière on a peculiar French penchant 

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Tale of two cities

Nicola Gobbo and the wreckage in her wake ... Corruption of the criminal justice system not confined to Victoria ... Tom Kelly traces the recent history of graft and corruption that flowered in New South Wales ... Police, lawyers and crims in cahoots ... Evolutionary differences - Sydney and Melbourne ... Different categories of criminal defence lawyers ... The role of public lawyers in NSW 

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Monday
Dec142020

Clochemerle-sur-Torrens

South Australia magistrate locked-up after doing an Einfeld ... Briefs told by SA bar president to keep quiet ... Speaking out on sexual harassment and other unpleasantness found to be unprofessional ... Appeal in the wings ... Curtain rises on a new court of appeal 

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Friday
Dec112020

Last days of Nero

Pardon me ... Trump's Dolchstosslegende ... Republicans' strong electoral showing down ballot ... Tejano vote ... Victory for Koch candidates ... Census case in Supreme Court ... The wreckage continues ... Oil leases in Alaska ... Last minute federal executions ... Roger Fitch, our man in Washington, reports 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

No soft balls here

Important cases from The Dart ... The law of cricket ... Adults using a proper cricket ball ... The defence of illegality ... Guns in court ... Leverhulme's tribute to lord justice of appeal Roy Beldam 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

Those wicked press lords

Critiquing Bathurst CJ on defamation law ... World view from the plaintiff's corner ... Large corporate media interests trying to set the reform agenda ... Meddling with the common law ... Artemus Jones comments 

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