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Roll call for silk ... 109 NSW barristers have their hands up for silken acknowledgement ... Bar's secret list for 2024 unmasked ... Stampede to exit the junior bar ... Finery ... Embroidery ... The annual Silk Bazaar ... Scoop ... 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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Attorney General assigns "Area Leaders" to the ART ... Plus 20 new general members for Oct. 14 launch date ... More >>  

 

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Letter from Blighty ... Filling the pauses - magistrate's messaging addiction during hearings ... Algerian boxer (he/him) sues X for cyber-bullying - gender experts punch below the belt ... Judge slapped with misconduct finding over 16 month delay in costs ruling ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from London ... Read more >> 

"This is not a workplace event ... It's not workplace sexual harassment ..." 

Martin Bennett, lawyer for Senator Linda Reynolds, seeking to put distance between his client and Brittany Higgins' office rape ... Reynolds v Higgins, September 3, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


Justinian Featurettes

Winners and grinners ... Smiling policy for lawyers ... Better coordination required ... When smiling runs amok ... Happy lawyers and glum clients ... Delighted clients and anxious lawyers ... Moments of intense seriousness ... Delirious money shots ... From Justinian's Photographic Editor ... Read more ... 


Justinian's archive

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 ... 


 

 

Friday
Nov152019

Silk presses complaint to Watch Poodle 

Sydney silk says articles in The Australian about ICAC reflect adversely on him ... Complaint to Australian Press Council ... Incorrect assertions ... Failure to check ... Bias ... Puzzling claims that findings of corrupt conduct have been overturned ... "Exoneration" that doesn't exist ... Zealotry 

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Tuesday
Nov122019

The small stuff of words

Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas at their peak ... Pain and Glory reviewed by Miss Lumière ... Life, loves, memories, and loss ... An artist's reckoning of a life lived 

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Tuesday
Nov122019

High Crimes and Misdemeanours

Impeachment ... Congress ... SCOTUS ... the Constitution ... Confusion ... What levers will be pulled in the impeachment process ... Digging for evidence ... Supreme Court as "umpire" ... Precedents, Privilege and Power ... Shooting on Fifth Avenue ... Nathan Twibill investigates 

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Monday
Nov112019

The Oligarchs

Sydney Law School executive elections ... Hallowed ground ... Fat bank account ... Strange customs ... Perpetuation of the hierarchy ... The revolting masses ... Baby Liberal apparachic squeaks home against grandson of former High Court grandee ... Barely Legal reports from a shocked tally-room 

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Monday
Nov042019

Taylor made

Catch a falling star and put him in your pocket ... Bedrock freedoms ... The end of "fart-arsing" ... The "sensible centre-right" ... Breaking the mould for sex discrimination commissioners ... Theodora comments 

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Saturday
Nov022019

The Sackville commission: who should be sacked?

Government won't back away from insensitive appointments to the Disability Royal Commission ... Stuart Robert and Ron Sackville in charge ... Two senior counsel assisting the commission have withdrawn ... Undercurrent of unhappiness ... Disabled children and education ... Stand by ... Nathan Twibill reports 

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Friday
Nov012019

The subjunctive mood

Wishing and hoping and praying ... Procrustes looks at the great subjunctive issue of the day - water, and the lack of it ... Morrison's mantras ... "I love a sunburnt country ..." ... On the road from Nyngan to Bourke ... The game is up for much of the rural sector ... Who came up with the idea of buying and selling water?  

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Wednesday
Oct302019

Pensioner pay-day

Disability pensioner who applied to be admitted to the Tasmanian jam roll ordered to pay costs ... Application for admission withdrawn ... Still, the objectors wanted their costs because they were acting in the "public interest" ... No evidence about how much work they did ... Applicant from out of town 

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Monday
Oct282019

Quick Sandy

Judge Street's findings in favour of Microsoft in an IP case overturned ... Blistering appeal judgment from the Federal Court ... Judgment in complex case given ex tempore by FCC judge ... Speculative inferences ... Liability for claims that were not made ... The missing pathway ... Go back, start again ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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