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Fresh upsets ... Hunt & Hunt writes to a judge ... Unwarranted correspondence slapped down ... Failure to reply to email from judge's chambers ... Impertinence ... ART Deputy President birched ... Failure to understand the law of legal professional privilege ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>

 

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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Lib-Nat government of Queensland appoints two new senior judges ... Court of Appeal and Northern Supreme Court ... Doyle KC and Johnstone KC ... Both from the same chambers ... Diversity at work ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

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 ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Friday
May242019

Credit where credit is due

The long arm of dishonesty doesn't catch up with an applicant for the provision of "credit services" ... ASIC smells danger but the High Court says spent convictions must be ignored ... Hair-raising collection of ancient offences and scrapes ... Law admission blocked and struck-off as a migration agent and a tax agent ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
May212019

Operation sandbag

Barrister put off the track ... Dodgy tax history ... More damning information emerges ... Harman undertaking ... Bureau de Spank wants to use the new material in future proceedings ... Person with cognitive impairment pointed sole director of barrister's tax avoidance vehicle 

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Friday
May102019

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 

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Friday
May102019

A medley of law, order and justice

Polly Peck delves into the salmagundi of law & justice policies on offer by the two major parties ... May 18 election ... Policies that have been missing in action during the campaign ... Rights ... Integrity Commissions ... Family law reform ... Judicial and quasi-judicial appointments ... Legal aid ... Indigenous Australians ... Prosecuting Banks and finance companies ... Whistleblower protections ... Catching more crims ... Take your pick 

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Wednesday
May082019

Muddied oafs

Ancient rugger buggers ... It was 1956 and Sir William Slim was Governor General, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean surfaced in Moscow and My Fair Lady opened on Broadway ... It was also the year that two teams of NSW solicitors and barristers squeezed into their footy gear and scrummed down ... 

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Wednesday
May082019

The Obstructionist-in-Chief

Three Pinocchios for Billy Barr ... Mueller's 11 obstruction findings ... Charging and indicting Trump ... SCOTUS takes on cultural issues with new term cases ... Invalid orders of a compromised military commission judge ... Noam Chomsky on how the US political system works ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Tuesday
May072019

Laboratory for apparatchiks 

Law school during the election campaign ... Lots of students in suits as careers in Parliament House beckon ... The Canberra Bubble comes to campus ... Party hacks starting young ... Barely Legal's mother hands out Labor leaflets and dry fruit cake 

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Thursday
May022019

No authority

Reef coral opinions bleached ... Fresh from spankings by the Full Family Court, Judge Vasta rides to the rescue of a sacked professor ... Lengthy judgment without citing a single authority or precedent ... Sal turns his hand to intellectual freedom ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
May022019

Frills and furbelows

South Australian briefs opt for royal plumage ... Fail, pass, fail, appeal, sue ... The Herbert Smith Freehills candidate's unhappy time qualifying for a right of audience in the higher courts of the UK ... Latest word from Bridie ... Qld solicitor general turns people green ... Jobs galore ... Bottom pinching assault sorted ... Theodora reports 

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