Scratching fleas ... Multiple references from their Highnesses didn't cut the mustard for silk applicant ... Behind the scenes with the selectors ... AAT visa decision scuttled because delegate's reasons were scissor and pasted ... Looking for a new ICAC CEO ... Basement rendezvous at the Lubyanka ... Theodora reports ... Read more >>
A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ...
Rome is burning ... Giorgia Meloni's right-wing populist regime threatens judicial independence ... Moves to strip constitutional independence of La Magistratura ... Judges on the ramparts ... The Osama Almasri affair ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Emil Bove, the lawyer who unsuccessfully defended Trump in the porn star hush money case, is now the Deputy US Attorney General ... This is his directive to fire seven members of the FBI who investiged the case against Trump for the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection ... Punishment for upholding the rule of law ... More >>
Letter from London ... T.S Eliot gets it wrong ... Harry cleans up in a fresh round with Murdoch's hacking hacks ... All aboard Rebekah Brooks' "clean ship" ... Windy woman restrained from further flatulent abuse ... Trump claims "sovereign immunity" to skip paying legal costs of £300,000 ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >>
Damien Carrick ... For 23 years Carrick has presented the Law Report on ABC Radio National ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests ... On The Couch ... Read more >>
A life in Commonwealth cars is not a good look ... Scene beside the lake ... Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon ... A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good ... Taxi driver's failure to lament ... From Justinian's Archive, February 2, 2009 ... Read more ...
Justinian's archive
Callinan Diaries • Friday, May 20, 2005 Justinian managed to acquire the exclusive rights to the serialisation of The Secret Diaries of The Hon. I.D.F. Callinan AC QC. The High Court judge, playright and novellist records the day-by-day, behind-the-scenes dramas at the court as well as letting us take a peek at the first draft of his new novel, The Cannelloni Conspiracy.