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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 ... 


 

 

Wednesday
Jul292020

Leverhulme's London Calling

People in the Old Dart struggle to get to grips with pandemic life ... Criminal barristers are on the skids ... Pub etiquette has changed ... Try ordering a pint ... Compulsory masks in shops ... Leverhulme meets trouble in the bakery ... Righteous zealots take the high ground ... Crisis report 

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Tuesday
Jul282020

Top End trifecta at the Last Chance Saloon

Northern Territory Supremes shot down by the High & Mighty ... Tear gas at Don Dale ... What is a prison? ... NT Court of Appeal delays locking-in sentencing order in drug case ... Too much Vietnamese singing at Palmerston prompts bottle attack ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Tuesday
Jul282020

Pride and Prejudice

Full Feds fed-up to the back teeth ... Eldon's submissions scotched ... Appeal from harassing conveyancer tossed out ... Sexual harassment that was not meant to be sexual ... Solicitor in his underwear ... Loitering in female employee's bedroom ... Hugs ... Damages should have been greater ... An elephant in love ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Monday
Jul272020

Delusions dossier

UPDATE ... Constitutional deconstruction ... The anti-mask, no jabs brigade looks to the outer reaches of the law for support ... Freedom-loving conspiracy theorists fighting tyranny and trolls ... GoFundMe's cash sprinkler ... Bill Gates to blame ... Alan Zheng reports from the frontline 

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Saturday
Jul252020

A beastly time

Collapse of the world order ... Yet, the annual round of law firm clerkship applications proceeds unabated ... Zoomathons without tasty sandwiches ... The pitches ... The critical questions ... The psychometric tests ... The online interviews ... Barely Legal jumps through hoops to land a poorly paid plum job 

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Tuesday
Jul212020

The great and the not-so-good

The Kerrs ... Lady Peggy ... Lady Anne ... Fancy Nancy ... Lady Macbeth ... Margaret Whitlam ... The Robsons "Reno-ed" in private ... Dyse thunders about the decline in "mutual respect" ... Overblown moralising ... Procrustes on hypocrisy and the governing class 

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Tuesday
Jul212020

Litigations in Queanbeyan

Kerr's correspondence with the Palace on the Loans Affair prosecution ... Shifting claims of Crown privilege ... Resignation of attorney general Ellicott ... The GG away at the opera when the executive council agreed to raise $4 billion in petrodollars ... The Queen didn't much like Alan Reid's unbalanced opinions ... Send me another book, please ... Kerr's views on Neville Wran ... Stephen Murray delves into remote corners of the Palace Letters 

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Saturday
Jul182020

Missing the mark

Apple Isle confusion over pleadings in a negligence claim ... The potting machine out of action after a power surge ... Poles and wires ... How much pleading is necessary? ... Only the facts, not the legal arguments ... The Judicature Act ... The common law in play ... The Map ... Janek Drevikovsky reveals all  

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Friday
Jul172020

Could your honour pardon me one moment?

MH17 class action ... Plane shot down over Ukraine ... Non-resident cannot sue under Montreal Convention ... Family should not have been barred from the proceedings ... Failure to inform ... Insouciance ... Conduct of lawyers fell "well short" of their obligations ... Show cause why the lawyers should not pay the appellants' costs ... Mea Culpa ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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