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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Justinian's archive
Monday, December 14, 2009 The Ozcar - Utegate crisis ... Email traffic March-May 2009 between Godwin Grech and Credit Suisse's John O’Sullivan ... Conservatives in manipulative tryst ... Leaks from Treasury to Liberal Party apparatchiki
Deja Vu • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Love in the seventies ... A young Malcolm Turnbull warns his ex-girlfriend’s cat about the treachery of new boyfriends ... Cat asked to intercede in broken romance drama ... A Justinian exclusive ... From the archive, June 17, 2009
City Desk • Monday, April 20, 2009 Clarence Darrow and the vanishing art of advocacy … Doctors convinced David Kelly was murdered … Alex Mitchell files from what’s left of Fleet Street ... From Justinian's archive, July 20, 2009
Deja Vu • Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Barry Lane tracks in exquisite detail the Kala Subramaniam case, which should have sounded a warning bell for The Mensch ... Alas ... From Justinian's archive, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Prez Obama adopts Bush legal strategies … Boeing subsidiary sued for flying rendition planes … Bagram prison likely to replace Guantánamo as dumping ground for the indefinitely detained … Uighurs trapped in partisan appeals court ... Roger Fitch from Washington
Deja Vu • Saturday, November 8, 2008 Remember Angela Liati, the "solitary crusader" caught up in the Marcus Einfeld case? ... The cat loving, Boston Legal watcher has some strong views about what needs to be changed about Australia and the legal system ... She was on Justinian's couch in November 2008 ... A tiny treasure from our archive
Bar Talk • Monday, November 3, 2008 Unspecified grumbling about president Anna Katzmann at the NSW bar 'n' grill saw the emergence of a "reform" agenda for the bar's 2008 AGM ... Also, better safeguards against customers who complain about barristers' performance ... Change unlikely ... From Justinian's archive, November 3, 2008
Deja Vu • Sunday, October 26, 2008 It takes submissions from a dope fiend to have Queensland judges wrapping themselves in extra layers of dignity and producing weighty reasoning about delirious abstractions ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports ... From Justinian's archive, October 26, 2008
Deja Vu • Monday, September 15, 2008 The Commonwealth DPP doesn't think that judges have to concentrate all the time ... A judge can be sound asleep, but if that makes no difference to the outcome of a trial, then snooze on ... DPP says it's a matter of effect, not appearances ... High Court transcript makes for fun reading ... From Justinian's archive, September 15, 2008
Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, September 10, 2008 When lawyers "follow the fees" where does that lead the legal system? ... The business of privately funded criminal defence lawyers ... Why lawyers swapped horses ... Tulkinghorn traces the history ... From Justinian's archive, September 10, 2008
Goings On ... • Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Callinan's Japanese love scene mystery solved ... Prof. George Williams covers all lamentable appointment oversights ... Smoking airplane crashed into billable moments ... Adrian Powles RIP ... Defo in Van Diemen's Land ... The centre of the advocates immunity has just shifted ... Nietzsche's man at AG's department ... From Justinian's archive, August 2008
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Lord Robbo on justice for Radovan ... Organised crims love libel law, because they invented it ... It's time Bob French spoke up about the law against muttering ... Questions for Robert Richter ... Rugby quiz ... From Justinian's archive, August 6, 2008
Court in the Act • Friday, May 30, 2008 President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal delivers a clip on the ear to the "haughty and blinkered" High Court ... A memorable farewell speech from Keith Mason ... From Justinian's archive, May 30, 2008
Hellfire Club • Monday, December 31, 2007 Young Melbourne barrister struck off the roll a year after signing it … failure to come clean over essay collaboration with fellow student
Thursday, December 13, 2007 Spigelman stars in crime thriller … Mrs Spigelman draws literary inspiration from the eastern bloc … "Role model" judicial appointments in NSW … Justinian’s Tubby Callinan on the lecture circuit … The prosecutor as passionate photographer ... From Justinian's archive, December 13, 2007
Deja Vu • Thursday, December 13, 2007 Spigelman stars in crime thriller ... Mrs Spigelman draws literary inspiration from the eastern bloc ... "Role model" judicial appointments in NSW ... Tubby Callinan on the aged care lecture circuit ... From Justinian's bulging archive, December 2007
Deja Vu • Wednesday, November 21, 2007 It's 2007 and the federal election that saw the Howard government swept from office is underway ... Polly Peck visits the seat of Wentworth, where the campaign is particularly fervid ... Maybe it's because too many lawyers are involved ... From Justinian's archive, November 21, 2007
Deja Vu • Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Advertising for judges and the dignity of the bench ... Magistrates' status on the up-and-up ... Federal Court's Melbourne marketing blitz ... Privilege tussle over Sydney bar's Stephen Archer documents ... Grief sweeps VicBar over Faris' resignation ... From Justinian's archive, October 2007
Callinan Diaries • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Ian Callinan unwraps his presents at the farewell dinner thrown in his honour by Janette Howard. In this special, exclusive edition of his secret diaries© he unpacks the menu, the guests and his jurisprudential philosophy. Plus, we’re privy to the latest chapter in his upcoming thriller, The Cannelloni Conspiracy – A Recipe for Murder