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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

 

Monday
Jul122021

Quicksandy

Nye neighs loudly at Circus Court judgment that did not get to grips with the evidence ...  Twigs assembled for a "forensic bird's nest" ... Blots on the judicial escutcheon ... AAT's incompetence ... Eight years later application remains unresolved ... Justice Charlesworth finds more jurisdictional error in the case of an Iranian conscientious objector  

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Thursday
Jul082021

National Treasure

Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view  

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Tuesday
Jul062021

Suspicious minds

Last Chance Saloon lets the government off the hook on indeterminate immigration detention ... Minority judges aghast ... Non-refoulement ... The untethered "state of mind" of government officials ... The new Al-Kateb ... Sayonara habeas corpus ... Procrustes in a funk 

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Monday
Jul052021

Aged care

Former Apple Isle DPP denounces plan to increase the retirement age of judges ... Slings and arrows aimed at the chief justice ... A more youthful and reformist bench is required ... Judges should be refreshed ... Graphs and charts ... Studies on age and mental deterioration ... Tim Ellis puts the case for ageism 

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Monday
Jul052021

Mixed bag from SCOTUS

Supreme Court wraps up its latest term with some notable shockers ... Another stick of gelignite to blow up the Voting Rights Act ... Secrecy for rich donors to political causes ... But freedom for profane speech ... Department of Justice going slow on prosecuting Capitol insurrectionists ... War criminal and former defence secretary dead at 88 ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Wednesday
Jun302021

NCAT sucks

The Bureau de Spank's decision not to spank a barrister over his nasty sexist piggery has caused ructions up-and-down the Street of Shame ... Attack on female barristers' clerk ... EFA, A and H ... All OK because the brief has reflected on his conduct ... Frame by frame analysis ... Name suppressed to protect offender from further harm ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Jun302021

When greenwashing can't hide the fossil stains

Company logo despoiled by climateers ... Upheld in the name of satire ... Clive Palmer didn't help ... Phil Ruddock's shield of satire saved the greenies ... Anna Kretowicz looks at how the Federal Court came to grips with parody 

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Friday
Jun252021

Porter's imperfections

Porter hanging-on in Cabinet amid rising stench ... Publication of painful dossier compiled by alleged victim of rape ... More unattractive character details about the former attorney general ... No inquiry into whether he is fit and proper to remain in government ... Murdoch hack wants inquiry into the ABC ... Polly Peck reports 

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Wednesday
Jun232021

Tokyo Trial

The post WW11 tribunal that tried the Japanese leadership ... Inventing crimes after the event ... Eleven judges wrestle with the complexities over three years ... Egos muddled with legal principles ... Creating law to fit extraordinary circumstances ... Miss Lumière reviews the Netflix mini-series on Japanese war crimes 

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