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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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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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      Federal government slices and dices the law firms on the drip for Commonwealth work
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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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 ... 

 

 

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Thursday
Apr092020

The disobedient ostrich

• DateThursday, April 9, 2020

Yarraside brief fights over solicitor's bill ... Failure to abide by court direction ... Judicial review of costs order ... Too much delay ... The cruel clock ... Health issues ... Personal difficulties ... General drama ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Wednesday
Apr082020

Stand by your man

• DateWednesday, April 8, 2020

No mad rush for de-rolling former AGS lawyer who diddled a trust fund ... Offence in 2009 ... Caught in 2014 ... Pleaded guilty in 2016 ... Out of the nick by 2018 ... Struck off in 2020 ... Wife "horrified" by husband's offending ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Apr082020

London Calling

• DateWednesday, April 8, 2020

With Boris in sickbay, nurse is having a frightful time ... Jittery politics ... Bored citizens stuck at home ... Leverhulme goes for a walk outside ... Other hot topics go cold ... Corporates who care ... Problems with Zoom ... Fallout from Alex Salmond's sexual assault trial  

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Tuesday
Apr072020

The war-time president

• DateTuesday, April 7, 2020

Managing the pandemic in the US of A ... Letting the virus out of the bottle as the president bloviates and botches ... Ideology trumps science ... Misinterpreting the Defence Procurement Act ... Disbanding and closing programs for pandemic preparedness ... US manufacturers busily exporting vital equipment ... Oversight provisions in rescue legislation to be ignored ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Tuesday
Apr072020

Those pesky judges

• DateTuesday, April 7, 2020

What protection visa? ... Man held in immigration detention by the government after he had been granted a protection visa ... Federal Court orders immediate release ... Minister for Immigration birched in fulsome judicial rebuke ... Ministerial defiance of the law ... Disgraceful conduct ... Habeas corpus application opposed by the minister on spurious grounds ... Zoe Mitchell reports 

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Sunday
Apr052020

Dexterity of the left hand

• DateSunday, April 5, 2020

Car accident ... Plaintiff's fraudulent case ... Farrago of lies ... Deceit ... Tentative orders for indemnity costs and to refer the plaintiff for criminal investigation ... Committing offences while allegedly incapacitated ... Priors ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Mar312020

Virus at varsity

• DateTuesday, March 31, 2020

Closing down the law school ... Barely Legal invited to Zoom lectures ... Five show up where there should be 300 ... Exam supervision by 'ProctorU' ... Talk of a student strike ... What's a law school without people and a library and broken vending machines? 

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Tuesday
Mar312020

Game plan

• DateTuesday, March 31, 2020

The "independent" bar goes cap-in-hand to the government ... Game's up ... One dissenting voice above the parapet ... Trying to prop-up the chambers working model ... Turnover of bar staff ... NSW Law Society in upheaval as a cabal seeks to change the constitution and sideline dissenting voices ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Mar272020

Domesday Dossier

• DateFriday, March 27, 2020

Practising law may never be the same again ... Powers of the state unlikely to be wound back ... Unhappy remote experiences ... Costs and time blowouts ... Corona appeals ... Lockouts ... Home on the range ... Theodora does the rounds 

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