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 >>
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 >>
"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 >>
Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ...
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 >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
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 >>
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 >>
Polly Peck • Friday, June 5, 2020 Latest spying update ... Legislation for International Production Orders ... Spooks picking through your data held on foreign servers ... Bad news for public interest and human rights organisations, not to mention reptiles of the media and their sources ... Coalition cronies on the AAT can sign off IPOs ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on the wider scope for Washington's regime of global spying
Procrustes • Friday, June 5, 2020 Historian Jenny Hocking bursts into Kerr's secret locker ... High Court gives her the key ... The Archives Act and Commonwealth records ... David Szmitkowski's arrangement with the Archives ... Side agreement with the Palace ... Failed attempt to make agreements outside the terms of the legislation ... Office holders as trustees of the public ... Procrustes explains the latest big decision from the High & Mighty
Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Vic Appeals says that "infelicitous" remarks from the trial judge were not unfair ... Trial judge is "not trying to be unhelpful", yet undermines defence counsel ... Murder case where the jury sees the judge poo-poo the defence ... Failure to be circumspect ... Summing-up miscarries the entire show ... Court orders another round ... Ginger Snatch reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, May 29, 2020 Miss Lumière's guide to eight of the best and two of the worst on a screen near you ... The not-so idiot box ... Documentaries, drama, politics, sex ... From Lee Miller to Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein ... The human experience in its many shades
Court in the Act • Thursday, May 28, 2020 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
Court in the Act • Monday, May 25, 2020 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
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 20, 2020 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
Court in the Act • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 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
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 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