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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 ... 


 

 

Friday
Jul172020

Faster than a speeding snail

Bottled Law ... Students and tech whizzes design life in the law of tomorrow ... NewLaw versus BigLaw ... Arming and training young lawyers with tech skills ... Removing the slog and having a better life ... From our tech rounds-person, Wallace Cloud 

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Wednesday
Jul152020

A gangster in the White House

SCOTUS rules on Electoral College voting ... Sexual identity and civil rights ... Native-American reservations ... Dreamers ... Presidential tax records ... The power of theocrats and churches ... Some helpful rulings, others less so ... Justice Department habitually supporting Trump's personal battles in court ... Curious belief that a mentally unfit president could be reelected ... Maybe it is possible ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Wednesday
Jul152020

Crisis in clubland

Yarraside furore ... Essoign Club clinging on in stressful times ... Bar Council not booking enough functions ... Uncertain future ... Rent ructions ... Frosty relations ... Facilitated discussions ... Last bastion of the rear guard ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Jul102020

Sore and sorry Salvatore

Latest from Circus Side ... Sal Vasta's written judgment recast from the original oral version ... Threat of imprisonment hits the cutting room floor ... Family Court appeal judges regret having to admonish the Circus judge ... Sigh ... Another burdensome remitted hearing ... Janek Drevikovsky reports  

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Friday
Jul102020

Noisy statues

The purges of Savonarola ... The Lubyanka ... Lt James Cook ... Fremantle Park ... Magdalene College ... Procrustes takes us on an historical magic carpet ride ... Statues and their threat to peace, order and good government ... How to manage dissension caused by images in bronze and stone 

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Thursday
Jul092020

Canberra taxi drivers are dangerous men

The ashes of Dyson Heydon's standing scattered far and wide ... We're ashamed ... Tally of the catastrophe ... Retreat to the club ... No more blind eyes ... Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves ... Character, law, and judging ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

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Friday
Jul032020

Lawn Order

Bulletin from the Bear-Pit ... Recasting the top job at LECC ... Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons ... Crime and insanity ... Tendency evidence gets tweaked ... Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission ... Answers on notice ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street 

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Friday
Jun262020

Dicey - updates

LATE EXTRA ... A family take-home guide to fresh fallouts from the Dyson Heydon revelations ... Heydon's harassments ... Civil and criminal possibilities ... Who knew what, when ... Gleeson keeps schtum ... Previous cover-ups at the top ... Sex harassment policies getting a hasty work-over ... Strange wrinkles ... Ginger Snatch updates the drama 

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Wednesday
Jun242020

"You don't know what kind of creeps are out there"

Dicey Heydon ... Time and tide in the affairs of men ... Industrial scale sexual harassment from the High & Mighty ... "Inadvertent and unintended" ... Who knew what and when ... More to come ... The masked man ... From Ginger Snatch, who associates with judges 

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