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Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered  ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>

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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

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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Friday
Sep272019

Tell tale tapes

Queensland bar ... Shortcomings fixed by lashings more bar readership ... Professional misconduct where barrister persisted with appeal submissions that had no basis in fact ... Inexperience ... Promises not to practice family law again ... Penny dropped late in the process ... Out comes the damp lettuce leaf ... Ghost of Rose Mary Wood 

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Thursday
Sep262019

Too much rubber chicken

Rekindling the culture wars on museums ... Remembering the Howardistas' attack on Dawn Casey ... Political donations - a problem too far ... Corporates snapping up democracy at bargain basement prices ... Political intervention driven by ideology and money ... Procrustes explains it all 

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