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 >>
Obit • Tuesday, May 19, 2020 The former NSW Supreme Court defamation judge David Levine died on May 11 at the age of 75 ... The Gazette pays tribute to him with a collection of memories from friends and colleagues ... Contributions from Tom Blackburn SC, Richard Coleman, Judith White, Judge Judith Gibson, Peter Semmler QC, Robyn Ayres, Sophie Dawson and Jim Micallef
Goings On ... • Thursday, May 14, 2020 Cluster news ... Government panel firms - who got what ... CJ v AG - further Torrenside tensions ... Entrapping hookers ... New broom at the Federal Court ... Court's own breach of the Migration Act ... Pre-virus hand-washing advice from Hobart ... Fresh entry in Hamill J's catalogue of catchwords and citations ... Theodora reports
Court in the Act • Monday, May 11, 2020 Torts ... Justice Ian Harrison throws out intimidating solicitor's malicious prosecution case and awards damages to former client ... Client sexually assaulted by her lawyer ... Who to believe ... Poisonous relationships ... Unstructured and discursive submissions ... Barrister at sea ... Alan Zheng on the case
Obit • Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Richard Ackland reflects, far too briefly, on the life of Philip Selth ... Former executive director of the NSW Bar Association ... Networker extraordinaire ... Historian, administrator and consumer of Japanese food ... An unexpected friendship
Miss Lumière • Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Documentaries and TV series ... Ten favourites hand-picked by Miss Lumière ... Lawyers, crime, trials and injustice ... Pithy analysis ... DVDs and streaming by the mile ... Months of worthwhile top-level distraction on the box
Polly Peck • Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Anomalies, inconsistencies and unfairness in the JobKeeper scheme ... How come full-time workers will be worse off than casuals and part-timers? ... Treasurer Frydenberg won't explain ... What's not to like when subsidies for some are higher than the usual paypacket? ... No justification for a flat-rate payment structure ... Alternate schemes in NZ and Canada ... Nathan Twibill analyses the government's perverse distortion of pay and work
Polly Peck • Thursday, April 23, 2020 The new COVID-19 tracker is under the auspices of Minister Stuart Robert ... What could go wrong? ... Problems with the proposed app ... Prying police forbidden ... How it works ... Hacking is inevitable ... A decentralised model would be less of a threat to privacy ... Centralised server would be a vehicle for mass surveillance ... The key issues clarified by Janek Drevikovsky