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Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered  ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>

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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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Donald Trump's rambling 85-page defamation complaint against The New York Times ... More >> 

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Thursday
Aug272020

London Calling

Lords, ladies and gentlemen ... Pandemic reading ... Leverhulme in London gets to grips with two books from top-of-the tree English judges ... Sir Richard Henriques with From Crime to Crime and Lord Brown's Playing Off the Roof and Other Stories ... Giving Jonathan Sumption a poke in the eye ... Sensible chaps providing a respite in a shouty world 

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Tuesday
Aug252020

Wyles' World

Covid-19 updates from Level 29 Aickin Chambers ... Freedoms should be restored ... Death rates confined to oldies ... Missives to Prof. Brett Sutton seeking projections ... "Cytokine storm" not wished for ... Beautiful charts and graphs ... And, appeal judges in Sydney smile on a solicitor the Law Society wanted binned ...Theodora on her rounds 

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Monday
Aug242020

More abominations

Robin and his merry men ... The Tamil takes up a senior position at the Rule of Law Institute bringing with him a fresh approach - e.g. people should be locked up even when they are acquitted ... "Nice legal arguments" are the enemies of the rule of law ... Exciting breakthrough: judges should allow confessions made under duress ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Aug202020

Sister Susan Connelly

The nun who is on the battlements for Bernard Collaery and Witness K ... Relentless organiser, protester, and campaigner ... East Timor's long struggle and the all too late engagement of Australia ... The "Act of No Choice" in West Papua ... Progressive politics and the Catholic Church ... Eggs, carrots and leftovers ... Devisor of cunning schemes ... Sister Susan Connelly is on Justinian's Couch 

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Tuesday
Aug182020

Acts of Attainder

No damage here, parliament says so ... Community Protection Acts ... Judicial gauze ... Straws in the wind ... Clive Palmer ... Aboriginal backpay ... Entitlement to MP's superannuation ... Parliaments' rule of law ... Procrustes on how politicians crush litigation opponents 

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Monday
Aug172020

Kerr's curs

Leading hacks at The Australian have waged war on Professor Jenny Hocking and her research into the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government by governor general Kerr ... The archived letters clearly confirm the Palace's involvement ... It is The Australian's version that is in need of repair ... Michael White dismantles the claims about Hocking's "conspiracy theory" 

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Monday
Aug102020

Correspondence from lofty sources

Lord Eldon QC writes to the Governor General about Norman O'Bryan "AM" ... A reflection on Michael Wyles QC's letter to the Prime Minister ... How much worse things are a month after the letter landed in Schmo's in-tray ... Lygon Street's Lagoon Dining ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Aug102020

Clinging to the wreckage

Trump's fresh rampage ... Taking the USA beyond proto-authoritarianism ... A chaotic post-election scenario ... Cheating might save the day ... Flouting the Supreme Court's rulings ... The odour of corruption ... Reichstag fires and the president's brown shirts ... Absentee voting and the postal system ... Our Man in Washington Roger Fitch reports  

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Friday
Aug072020

On The Beach

ASIC v Harold Mitchell ... Rollicking language from High Court prospect ... Something old at the new ACT drug court ... Roadkill at Tasmanian Legal Aid ... Women lawyers gazumped for High Court appeal ... Tears for Balmain woman ... Theodora is out and about with her notebook 

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