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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 >> 

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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 >> 

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      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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"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 >> 

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Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 

 

 

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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Thursday
Mar192020

Home on the Grange

• DateThursday, March 19, 2020

Hilary Penfold's vintage from 2011 ... Dry and too much oak ... Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered ... Respondent shot by the coppers ... Damages judgment ... Overly long and detailed reasons ... Riddled with errors ... Undermining public confidence in the judiciary ... Artemus Jones reprises 

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Thursday
Mar192020

Rumble rumbled

• DateThursday, March 19, 2020

The role political opinions may or may not play in sacking a consultant to a major law shop ... Insubordination and being rude about a client ... Close connection to expressing a political opinion ... Fair Work Act ... Acceptable to communicate views to anyone but the media ... Martinet ... Motivations ... Stephen Murray reports 

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Monday
Mar162020

Penfold puts a cork in it

• DateMonday, March 16, 2020

Hilary term ... Another judgment from retired ACT judge Hilary Penfold ... Preposterous delay of nearly six years creates more problems for the litigants ... Overburdened judgment writing style ... Reproduction of vast tracks of submissions ... Unclear reasoning ... Lavish dinner proposed by Artemus Jones 

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Friday
Mar132020

Moderately depressing

• DateFriday, March 13, 2020

Lawyer spankings resume after jurisdictional collapse ... NCAT picks-up disciplinary cases where it left off ... Helpful legislative amendments to the rescue ... Wollongong solicitor ignored missives from the Law Society ... Compliance required before trading ticket reissued ... Poverty ... Despair ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Mar122020

The implausible meets the irreconcilable

• DateThursday, March 12, 2020

The attorney general's draft religious discrimination legislation ... A patchwork of contradictory provisions ... Stealing one person's protections for the benefit of others ... Mess of pottage ... Shield and sword ... Statements of religious belief ... Vilification ... Who says Christians are persecuted? ... Nathan Twibill picks through the morass  

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