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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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Oct232019

Two Way Street

Sandy Street downs the Commonwealth ... Health report ... Hong Kong knees-up ... Eastman disaster ends in damages ... Painstaking magisterial appointment ... Florid epistle from Rod the God ... Bar election policies ... AG butts into the Palace Letters stand-off ... Winston to schmooze ancient briefs ... QC grief in Adelaide ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Oct222019

Calamity at the Bureau de Spank

UPDATE ... No jurisdiction ... Lawyer disciplinary actions thrown out by NCAT ... Complaints improperly made ... Procedural mishaps involving the Legal Services Commissioner, the Law Society and the Bar Association ... Mounting costs awarded ... Lawyers continue to trade without birchings ... Remedial patch-up underway ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Saturday
Oct192019

I am woman - hear me roar

At the Feminist Legal Clinic, Gudrun Willcocks meets Anna Kerr, a different kind of lawyer ... Matriarchy takes on the patriarchy ... Wages for wives would see a reduction in domestic violence ... The outsider working on the inside ... Discrimination and motherhood ... A bandaid service at the Family Court 

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Sunday
Oct132019

Hale Spiderwoman

11 out of 11 ... UK Supremes on a null and void prorogation ... Dissolution and prorogation: compare and contrast ... Judicial review of the prerogative power of the crown ... Principle of parliamentary sovereignty ... Her Maj the cypher ... Welcome back Sir Edward Coke ... Procrustes explains 

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Saturday
Oct122019

Correspondence from lofty, and other, sources

Waterstreet Down ... Slippery Pete on giving Tasmanian silks an option ... Morrison's gush at the Australian embassy in Washington ... Our investigations department riffles through the rubbish bins 

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Friday
Oct112019

An afterlife for political flops

The poor old Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been trashed and stacked with the flotsam and jetsam of the Liberal Party ... Cronyism ... Peter Dutton's "Australian values" ... The defenestration of the administrative review functions of the Commonwealth ... Investigative reporting by Inq laid bare the extent of the political rort 

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Monday
Oct072019

Order of the Silken Quoll

Rebranding The Map's briefs ... Scrabbling for the royal garter gets underway in Tasmania ... Clutching at illusory glitter ... Peddling the same old malarkey ... Status and money raise their unattractive heads 

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Friday
Oct042019

Drugs, money and death

The brutality of the drug business in Columbia ... From the directors who brought us Embrace of the Serpent comes Birds of Passage ... America, the greedy satan ... Complex codes of honour ... Sumptuous and gripping ... Peace and war ... Miss Lumière reviews the spectacle

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Tuesday
Oct012019

Counting heads

Determining the number of real District Court judges ... Numbers that never vary, depending on who is included or excluded ... Counter-terrorism provision that lapsed at sunset because no one was looking ... Online application policy - one thing for JPs, another for GIPA requests ... Polly Peck savours the vignettes of the NSW AG's administration 

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