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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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    • ABC Law Report
      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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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'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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Nov032020

Leverhulme in lockdown

• DateTuesday, November 3, 2020

The legacy of womanising prime ministers ... Leverhulme seeks to put Boris in context, while others rage ... A new work explains the damage wrought by the PM's feckless father ... The void within ... Disease, death and lockdown ... Lord Sumption on his libertarian soapbox 

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Friday
Oct302020

Drama at the Sandgropers' grill

, • DateFriday, October 30, 2020

New procedures to deal with groping grievances ... Outcry at the WA bar over the president's ham-fisted message on sexual harassment ... Female barristers incandescent ... CJ drawn into the fracas ... History of sex-pest judges in Perth ... Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations ... Grievance stewards ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Oct292020

Behind the scenes at the selection cabal

• DateThursday, October 29, 2020

High Court appointments ... Endorsements and disappointments ... What now for the Last Chance Saloon? ... Justices Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson ... Background to selections ... Politics and the process ... Where's the excellence? ... Knock on Wood ... Beach beached ... Associate of judges, Ginger Snatch, reports 

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Tuesday
Oct272020

The Trial of the Chicago 7

, • DateTuesday, October 27, 2020

Brutal America ... March 1969 and the trial of seven anti-war protesters ... Yippees ... Chicago police riot ... Biased and incompetent judge ... Contempt in all its many guises ... Miss Lumière reviews Aaron Sorkin's take on a stormy, shambolic trial

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Monday
Oct262020

Bubble, bubble

• DateMonday, October 26, 2020

Sandgropers and the value of Aboriginal heritage ... Jane Halton and directors' duties overboard ... Fallen Crown ... Bursting the Trans-Tasman Travel Bubble ... Contenders for vacancies at the Last Chance Saloon ... Procrustes on the current state of governance 

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Sunday
Oct252020

The strange case of Julian Assange

• DateSunday, October 25, 2020

Pressing questions ... Is Assange a journalist, a publisher, a combatant in information warfare, a tool of Russia? ... Do journalistic standards apply? ... Does it matter? ... The superseding indictment ... The Espionage Act and the First Amendment ... Lacunae in the law ... Janek Drevikovsky explains 

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Tuesday
Oct202020

Deconstructing the form guide for High Court contenders

• DateTuesday, October 20, 2020

Names on lists ... Jonathan Beach, Jayne Jagot and Janine Pritchard ... Speculative scribblings ... Cabinet contemplations underway ... Opinions aplenty from the commentariat ... The sound of axes grinding from within the law caper ... Appointments imminent 

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Friday
Oct162020

Shutdown at the bauble factory

• DateFriday, October 16, 2020

UPDATE ... New Yarraside QCs on hold ... Plague stifles letters patent ... In South Australia, legislation passes to permit new branding ... Fluffier status ... The great hurtle backwards 

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Friday
Oct092020

The Comey Rule

, • DateFriday, October 9, 2020

Streaming now ... Based on the former FBI director's book ... An insight into America's trauma ... A president hell-bent on suborning the bureau to his will ... A mafioso in the White House ... Hillary's emails and the 2016 election ... The Russia investigation ... Everyone is compromised ... Miss Lumière dips her toe into the swamp 

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