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Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >> 

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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

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Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent.

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 


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Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 


 

 

Tuesday
Sep112018

News from the font of misfeasance

ICAC chalks-up another win ... Corrupt businessman's notice to produce sent packing ... Seeking documents related to findings about property deals at The Rocks ... Journalist's campaign against ICAC founders ... Bizarre straddle on UN meddling in our precious sovereignty ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Tuesday
Sep112018

Lend me your ears

Striking off ... Workers comp solicitor bites the dust over bogus legal aid claim ... Claim for hearing aids that were never part of the compensation consent orders made by the WCC ... Defenestrated solicitor still plying the trade in court ... Secretary knows nothing ... Jennifer Cooke reports from NCAT 

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Monday
Sep102018

Hedge funds

When is money trust money? ... When it belongs to someone else ... It's easy to get muddled ... Brothers-in-law ... Jennifer Cooke reports from NCAT on wrangling the payment of disbursements 

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Sunday
Sep092018

Do nothing!

Sydney Law School's retiring dean Joellen Riley sits down and talks to Nick Bonyhady ... Academic pay and conditions ... In the industrial relations trenches ... Faculty shortcomings ... Alarming exams ... A sense of the ridiculous 

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Thursday
Sep062018

Silky aspirations

Scoop ... Another year and the NSW bar throws up a large quantity of contestants for a new round of the Silk Games ... Full list invites inspection ... Favourite names reappear 

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Wednesday
Sep052018

The bodies are piling-up in NSW

Coroners falling behind ... Long queue for inquests ... Coroners under-resourced ... New legislation secretly prepared even before the report of the statutory review is publicly available ... Full-blooded reforms thwarted ... Updated information to hand 

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Monday
Sep032018

Tommy Playford - South Australia's energy socialist

Procrustes reviews a new film, The NEG ... Everything new is old again ... How South Australia's Tom Playford split the government with his energy policy, but captured the support of Labor ... Why didn't Turnbull take a leaf from Sir Thomas' book? ... Plus, compensation for miscarriages of justice ... Quantum determined by public opinion ... Courts should step in 

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Sunday
Sep022018

Taxing matters

Unticketed criminal barrister gets low-end fine for breaching undertakings about tax payments ... Misleading the Bar Council amounts to professional misdonduct ... A steep fine would put family home in  jeopardy ... Nick Bonyhady reports from NCAT 

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Friday
Aug312018

Julian Morrow

The Chaser's Julian Morrow gets serious on Justinian's Couch ... An escapee from the law who came into our lives as a comedian and satirist ... The joys of employment law could not hold him ... Now the master of ceremonies at Continuing Professional Development Under the Influence 

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