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Commercialisation of legal research … Austlii responds to news about startups entering the field of legal research … “Free and anonymous access to primary legal information is a human right in a democratic society governed by the rule of law”

POLITICS MEDIA LAW SOCIETY

Long tail of the law … Silencing Silenced … Where’s Linda’s loot? … Faruqi v Hanson … MacInnes v Wilson … Dirty bathwater … The High Court beckons … Angus Taylor snared in Catholic mafia’s web … ICAC gets close to the flame

EDITOR’S CHOICE

Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases

The Australian

Parliamentary review of NSW Law Society's monopoly control of solicitors indemnity insurance ... LawCover in the frame
The Saturday Paper

Alan Jones goes to Mark Foys
Financial Review

Farewell Tony Hartnell ... Allens partner, corporate czar, horse breeder, one half of Antagonistic & Heartless, and trencherman extraordinaire
The New Yorker

The delusions of Chief Justice John Roberts ... He just can't see the bias
Guardian Australia

Victorian government flags amendments to the Open Courts Act ... Review underway ... Interim suppression orders for accused rapists to be restricted ... Outcry over orders granted to Ralph (The Rug) Carr and Tom Silvagni
The Australian

Allens' scant investigation into KPMG ... Just two 30-minute interviews with former KPMG partners with a finding that whistleblower's allegations were unsubstantiated ... 61-page report released by parliamentary committee

Jonathan Sumption … On judges keeping their noses out of government policy

JUSTINIAN COLUMNISTS

How bad is Trump, really? … Crimes at the heart of presidential power … Shakedowns, extortions, insider trading, cash for pardons, revenge … And here comes Trump’s enabler, Todd Blanche … Breaking into the backdoor of the Treasury in broad daylight … Roger Fitch with his Letter from Washington

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NEWS SNIP

CEO and Principal Registrar … Succession plan underway for top administrative job at the Federal Court … Head hunters looking for someone who ideally possesses legal qualifications and is ideally based in Sydney or Melbourne

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JUSTINIAN’S BLOGGERS

To catch a thief … Self-defence in Italy … Outcry over jail term for man defending his property … Death on the footpath … Right-wing politicians vie for the cause … Pardon not appropriate … Politicisation of criminal justice … Our Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports

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FLATULENCE

“The No.1 priority is to beat the communist Labor government. We’ve got to be honest. If there’s an opportunity to form a government [with One Nation] to beat the communists, then we’ll do it. That shouldn’t be controversial.”

Liberal Party frontbencher Senator Andrew Bragg, July 27, 2026

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JUSTINIAN FEATURETTES

Patrick Mullins … Justinian’s interview with biographer Patrick Mullins … Political profiles … Crime and scandal in rackety nineteenth-century Sydney … His latest book The Stained Man is a triumph … The story of the lawyer-hero, the fall from grace, and the campaign for restoration… On The Couch

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JUSTINIAN’S ARCHIVE

Snouts in government trough … Everyone likes a good story about lawyers’ fees … We’ve reached back to March 1994, to the days of hard copy, and found the money shelled out by the AGS to lawyers in the 1993 financial year … Many went on to fame and bigger fortune … Justinian’s Archive, March 1994

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Getting them off

Evan Whitton Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Ethics and misleading the court … Representing the guilty … Moral standards … Whatever it takes … From columnist Evan Whitton … Justinian’s Archive, September 22, 2004

A brief history of sedition

Evan Whitton Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The origins and evolution of sedition, from 1450 to today … Howard and Ruddock dusting down the H. Talbot Gibbs’ plan … Reprising columnist Evan Whitton, who also unveils his new book, a mercifully brief and fun tome called Serial Liars … From Justinian’s Archive, November 28, 2005

Hatred, ridicule and contempt

Deja Vu Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Defamatorium … The libel scene back then … Marsden to the rescue … All fires are suspicious, until they’re not … Jury breakthrough on the defamatory meaning of “homosexual” … From Justinian’s Archive, November 11, 2003

The Planet shivers

City Desk Friday, December 23, 2022

Tom Toms following journalist’s speech … Galah WLA dinner … Conniptions from ACT lawyers … Tears and dismay … Lawyers must not be critiqued … Speakers required to bolster and flatter … Amendments affecting Lehrmann retrial … Theodora surveys the carnage

Murder Most Foul

Bar Talk Monday, November 5, 2018

Kathleen Folbigg … Keli Lane … Tim Anderson … Gordon Wood … Convictions and quashes … Prisoners walk free … Speculations and winning ways … The line that is crossed … Where is the line? … Prosecutorial controversies … Dr Criminale reports

The Parliamentary Honey Pot

Uncategorized Sunday, March 1, 2015

James Ashby and Harmers fail in lunge for Commonwealth to pay costs of proceedings against former Speaker, Peter Slipper … The latest, and maybe final, chapter in one of the nation’s grubbiest political escapades

National roundup from the Bureau de Spank

Uncategorized Monday, July 7, 2014

Advocates immunity spreads its wings … Pressuring client to settle found to be justified … Perth lawyer claims a vendetta by the complaints committee … Unexpectedly borrowing at 60 percent interest … Paper shuffling at bar ethics exam … The subjective test for recklessness … Bureau de Spank … Kate Lilly reports