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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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"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 is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ... 

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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Jan272020

Lynching by lawyers

Just Mercy ... Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative ... Saving the misrepresented from death row ... Black men presumed guilty in America's south ... Racist legal system ... Dirty prosecution tricks ... Frying flesh... Miss Lumière at the movies 

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Thursday
Jan232020

The poor must pay

Harsh life for struck-off solicitor ... A cult member who got onto pills and drugs ... Liquor store robberies ... A desire to return to prison ... Court of Appeal thinks robbery is incompatible with legal practice ... Forget rehabilitation, paying the Law Society's costs is more important ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Jan212020

Morrison, God and Climate

Government makes climate change noises, but no pressing need for a more urgent policy setting ... Fools paradise persists ... God will show the way as science takes the backseat ... Miracles galore ... Inspiration from Trump ... The editor comments  

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Tuesday
Jan212020

The torpor twins

ACT Supreme Court's slow-coach judges ... Even in retirement the suffering continues ... Gone but not forgotten ... Delays wreaking havoc on litigants ... From Artemus Jones 

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Monday
Jan202020

Frost bite

Liberal Party's misleading tricks in Kooyong and Chisholm ... Corflutes to heaven ... Full Feds finds the dodgy signage didn't swing enough votes to make a difference ... Fresh meaning for the phrase "likely to mislead" ... Judges tread wearily on political rorts ... Christmas Eve judgment that deserves attention ... Alan Zheng to the rescue 

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Friday
Jan172020

Courting climate intervention

Can and should the courts intervene on climate policy? ... Gloucester Resources and the "first wave" of climate litigation ... Judicial delicacy about putting a toe on the legislative patch ... European Human Rights Convention applied in upholding government's duty for a stronger mitigation effort ... Intergenerational equity ... Nathan Twibill reports 

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Tuesday
Jan142020

Impeachment and other crimes

What about all the other impeachable offences? ... No immunity for impeachment crimes ... Trump remains unchastened ... Fair elections cauterised by the Supreme Court ... War criminals to the rescue ... Judgeships for ideologues and party hacks ... From Roger Fitch in Washington

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Friday
Jan102020

Myrmidons and dancing bears

What is it about the Murdoch media and climate? ... Riding the tiger of denialism ... Margaret Thatcher, with her Oxford science degree, saw the problem ... Ruination of our rivers, air, crops, stock and reef ... The political power of coal and zero tax ... Doc Evatt showed how political courage worked ... Procrustes explains 

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Friday
Dec202019

A shaggy dog story

A Christmas helping of apprehended bias from Judge Sal Vasta ... More shouting, rudeness, anger, and overbearing conduct ... Expense and delay as the case has to start again ... Transcript ... Judicial embarrassment ... Sal's sorry history 

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