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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
Nov122020

Gun cabinet joker

No harm from emotional domestic flare-up ... Life in the suburbs ... Too much pineapple juice ... Queensland Madge hauled over the coals ... Miscarriage of justice ... Apprehended bias ... (No. It's not Sal Vasta) ... Threats to solicitor ... New trial ... Start again ... Michael Baker reports 

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Monday
Nov092020

Post-election prospects

Still an enormous number of hypnotised chooks in America ... What's on the cooker till January 20 ... The prospects of plunder during the interregnum ... The presidency as a private financial asset ... Republican judicial mischief ahead ... Corporate prosecutions on easy terms before the Democrats take over ... Roger Fitch in Washington rakes over the ruins 

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Saturday
Nov072020

Corruption Concealment Commission

As pressure mounts out of the hat jumps draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission ... Peculiar structure based on flawed reasons ... Porter's politician protection racket ... Drinking News Corp's Kool-Aid ... Janek Drevikovsky reports

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Friday
Nov062020

Steward's taxing ways

Taxation and the latest addition to the High & Mighty ... Trials and tribulations of tax minimisers ... Foreigners in Paris ... Mistreatment of multinationals and the "rule of law" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on what Simon says 

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Tuesday
Nov032020

Tbilisi uncorked

A ripping yarn ... Stalin and the Tsar's wine cellar ... Adventures in Georgia with George and Nino ... Hunting for Chateau d'Yquem ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler recalls a lasting taste memory ... History and geography ... Raiders of the Lost Wine 

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Tuesday
Nov032020

Leverhulme in lockdown

The legacy of womanising prime ministers ... Leverhulme seeks to put Boris in context, while others rage ... A new work explains the damage wrought by the PM's feckless father ... The void within ... Disease, death and lockdown ... Lord Sumption on his libertarian soapbox 

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Friday
Oct302020

Drama at the Sandgropers' grill

New procedures to deal with groping grievances ... Outcry at the WA bar over the president's ham-fisted message on sexual harassment ... Female barristers incandescent ... CJ drawn into the fracas ... History of sex-pest judges in Perth ... Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations ... Grievance stewards ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Oct292020

Behind the scenes at the selection cabal

High Court appointments ... Endorsements and disappointments ... What now for the Last Chance Saloon? ... Justices Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson ... Background to selections ... Politics and the process ... Where's the excellence? ... Knock on Wood ... Beach beached ... Associate of judges, Ginger Snatch, reports 

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Tuesday
Oct272020

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Brutal America ... March 1969 and the trial of seven anti-war protesters ... Yippees ... Chicago police riot ... Biased and incompetent judge ... Contempt in all its many guises ... Miss Lumière reviews Aaron Sorkin's take on a stormy, shambolic trial

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