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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 ... 


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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
May282020

Judgments of the month

The month of May brings out the best of the bench ... Shifty agency running the NDIS scheme ... Breakthrough ... The Full Feds say that a sex worker/therapist should be funded for a woman with a serious disability ... In NSW the CA makes adoption orders affecting a young Aboriginal woman ... Justice Leeming writes to her directly ... From judges' associate, Ginger Snatch 

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Monday
May252020

Janek goes gonzo

What has been the fate of open justice during a time of closed courts? ... Remote access for reporters ... Technical issues ... Costumes and clothes ... Freezing video links ... Wrong names ... Twiddling of thumbs ... Smooth operators at the Fed ... Nail bars, beauty salons and courts slowly open their doors, yet e-justice is here to stay ... Janek Drevikovsky explores 

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Wednesday
May202020

The plot thickens

SCOTUS tussle over congressional subpoenas for Trump's financial records ... Presidential immunity rejected in Nixon and Clinton cases ... Republicans want a compliant Supreme Court ... Yet, POTUS not doing well in the lower courts ... Attorney General's political manipulation of the judiciary ... Alarms and diversions for the election... Roger Fitch files from Washington  

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Tuesday
May192020

Balkan affairs

A city in semi-lockdown grieves for big swinging solicitor ... Costs battle against former client goes down the gurgler ... Conflict of interest ... Work under retainer adverse to clients interests ... Unsanitisable activities ... Solicitors expected to honour their word ... Janek Drevikovsky reports  

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Tuesday
May192020

Secret tapes unspooled

Striking off ... Francis Burt alumnus sent packing ... Murder and defamation trials followed by disciplinary proceedings ... A gruelling 13-year grind through the courts ... The final lap uncontested ... Wife illegally recorded ... No legal professional privilege ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Janek Drevikovsky explains  

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Tuesday
May192020

Tributes to David Levine

The former NSW Supreme Court defamation judge David Levine died on May 11 at the age of 75 ... The Gazette pays tribute to him with a collection of memories from friends and colleagues ... Contributions from Tom Blackburn SC, Richard Coleman, Judith White, Judge Judith Gibson, Peter Semmler QC, Robyn Ayres, Sophie Dawson and Jim Micallef 

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Thursday
May142020

Great moments in the law

Cluster news ... Government panel firms - who got what ... CJ v AG - further Torrenside tensions ... Entrapping hookers ... New broom at the Federal Court ... Court's own breach of the Migration Act ... Pre-virus hand-washing advice from Hobart ... Fresh entry in Hamill J's catalogue of catchwords and citations ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
May112020

Intimate anatomical details

Torts ... Justice Ian Harrison throws out intimidating solicitor's malicious prosecution case and awards damages to former client ... Client sexually assaulted by her lawyer ... Who to believe ... Poisonous relationships ... Unstructured and discursive submissions ... Barrister at sea ... Alan Zheng on the case 

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Tuesday
May052020

Philip Selth - obituary

Richard Ackland reflects, far too briefly, on the life of Philip Selth ... Former executive director of the NSW Bar Association ... Networker extraordinaire ... Historian, administrator and consumer of Japanese food ... An unexpected friendship  

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