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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >> 

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"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >> 

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Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ... 

Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


Justinian Featurettes

Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

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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Friday
Dec042020

Close to home

Rumours scotched that Family Court CJ is shifting chambers to Hobart ... Wild oysters are calling ... Hobart docket ... Sheriff leaves a door open at Nowra Court House - receiving more severe punishment than the escapee ... Top sheriff birched ... Attorney General goes schtum ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Dec022020

Burley Griffin's notebook

Ohh, that judgment ... ACT Law Society asks, "where are the reasons?" ... Judge scrambles out of retirement to deliver another door-stopper ... Profuse apologies for the loose ends ... Sexual assault by law lecturer means he's not fit and proper ... In London fresh findings about drunken sex and professional misconduct 

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Monday
Nov302020

Back to a brighter yesterday

Ticket for change sets about scrapping the changes ... Jabots in a tangle at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Email meltdowns ... Burning questions ... No nous for Nous ... Blandification of the bar ... "World class" barristerial biffo ... Peach Melba explains what went down 

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Tuesday
Nov242020

Graduating in the time of Covid

The exams are complete ... The degree finished ... But where's the riotous fun? ... A modest valedictory event, without dancing ... Graduation ceremony in doubt ... Preparing for a "man's world" with "Women in Law" ... Barely Legal's Anna Kretowicz blogs from Queensland  

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Friday
Nov202020

Time to woke-up

Mystery of the kiddie court tours ... School students' exposure to dangerous notions ... Trump-loving academic's batty predictions ... Magic Circle's fee spree ... Toast of the town ... Theodora's Goings On 

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