Search
This area does not yet contain any content.
Justinian News

Sofronoff stripped bare ... Deceit ... Betrayal ... Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information "tryst" ... Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann ... Derangement syndrome ... Sofronoff's "serious corruption" ... Devastation among devoted Banana Benders ... Read more >>

Politics Media Law Society


Bag lady ... Don't call the results until the fat lady sings … Senator's criminal record hidden from view … Inspiration from our B-grade business leaders … Forget the sexual harassment, Dicey Heydon is coming out of the deep freeze ... Read on >> 

Free Newsletter
Justinian Columnists

Capital crimes ... Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon ... Musk and his techie vandals ... The shredder going full blast at the FBI ... Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago ... Cabinet clown show ... White supremacy unleashed ... Consumer protection prosecutions dropped ... Lawyers and law firms threatened ... Roger Fitch from Washington ... Read more >> 

Blow the whistle

 

News snips ...


This area does not yet contain any content.
Justinian's Bloggers

Letter from London ... Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"True to form, the ACT corruption watchdog has put itself at the centre of perceptions of bias with a finding against eminent former Queensland judge Walter Sofronoff KC that serves only to debase the definition of serious corrupt conduct."

The Australian with its unique perspective on "bias" ... March 22, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


Justinian Featurettes

Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

Defamation and other misadventures ... So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Justinian's archive

Thursday
Oct102013

Pride and Prejudice

Failed application to remove Justice Kate McMillan from Victorian damages case against The Age ... Lengthy regurgitation of transcript ... Trying to get focus ... Failure to make notes ... Lack of judicial eye contact ... Misapplication of the word "garlic" ... Curt and non-embracing ... Alix Piatek reports 

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Oct022013

By George

A rorters catalogue ... RIP "Sir" Arthur George ... Soapy George Brandis and his slippery expense claims ... Wedding business and a sense of entitlement ... New attorney general crippled at the start

Click to read more ...

Monday
Sep302013

More blockbusters coming to you

Israel given unfiltered NSA data ... All phone calls in the US are "relevant to terrorism" ... Defence contractor successfully sues torture victims for costs ... NY designates city mosques as "terrorism enterprises" ... US Supremes in need of a code of conduct ... Nixon on judicial appointments ... Roger Fitch files from the town in the process of shutting down  

Click to read more ...

Monday
Sep302013

Loose seams at Team Barry

Jocking for position in the O'Farrell government ... Gilded career ahead for former Freehills person Gabrielle Upton ... Three other women ministers looking wobbly ... Serious adjustment needed by Johnny Howard's old chum, Pru Goward ... Alex Mitchell reports 

Click to read more ...

Monday
Sep302013

Contraction and globalisation bring out the claws

Clerkship offers came out Friday ... Firms use the interview process to bag their competitors ... Contraction sets the tone ... Recruitment numbers chopped in half ... Job Jockey reports 

Click to read more ...

Sunday
Sep292013

Trying to scrub clean the internet

Ashurst Australia comes up against a fiesty anti-nuclear campaigner and her websites ... 75-year-old pensioner sticks to her guns, while Fairfax takes down offending article ... Dealing with lawyers' letters 

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Sep042013

Judicial denial

Election policies have to get past the High Court ... The weakest or the strongest arm of government? ... Tulkinghorn explores the difference between legal reasons and real reasons 

Click to read more ...

Tuesday
Sep032013

George cares

Election that takes us nowhere ... Legal aid only encourages the poor to be "extremely litigious" ... Removing government funded advice for "queue jumpers" ... Coalition seeking to shaft the Constitution ... Procrustes issues a pent-up moan

Click to read more ...

Friday
Aug302013

Basten Chambers

High-rise glamour for new chambers ... Looking at lawyers' productivity ... Inner sanctum for LegalSuper ... Ornaments of parliamentary democracy  

Click to read more ...

Tuesday
Aug272013

Polly wolly doodle all the day

Lib-Lab ... Your nutshell guide to law and justice policies ... Dreyfus and Brandis hammer and tongs at the "great legal debate" ... Snoresville with flourishes 

Click to read more ...

Sunday
Aug252013

Race for the money 

Lawyers fees slashed ... Bills unpaid ... Client and former solicitors in dispute over money ... Solicitors who were sacked from defamation case having trouble getting their hands of their costs ... Client wants the money paid to him ... Trouble in libel land ... Defamatorium 

Click to read more ...

Monday
Aug192013

Bar, bah

Exclusive ... NSW bar's 2013 list of applicants for silk ... Plenty of familiar names reappear ... Waving, not drowning ... Sifting now underway 

Click to read more ...

Friday
Aug162013

The Hyde of this Page boy

Red Mess in Rome ... HP apologises to president of NSW bar for "rash and immature" statements ... K & W Mallesons - the power of together with journalists ... Solicitor caught on ICAC tap in dastardly plot with mayor 

Click to read more ...

Monday
Aug122013

You're under surveillance

Attorney General Holder promised the Russians that the US wouldn't torture Snowden, and they still wouldn't hand him over ... NSA's "network security agreements" with helpful telecoms ... Stacking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with Republicans ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, on the inner workings of a non-functioning democracy 

Click to read more ...

Friday
Aug092013

Nuts on the quarter-mast 

John McGuigan and John Atkinson, former Baker Boys, in the frame at ICAC ... What was it that got these two top-notch lawyers into strife? ... Found by ICAC to be "corrupt" with Corporations Act and Crimes Act charges recommended ... "The shortest distance to a pot of money" proves to be a littered with potholes 

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Aug072013

Appendix 3

Last minute desperation ... After the ICAC hearing concluded, lawyers for the baddies wheel out a barrow-load of issues ... ICAC investigation should have been run more like a trial ... Ipp squelches Hale and Littlemore ... Gratuitous complaints about counsel assisting dismissed 

Click to read more ...

Friday
Aug022013

Is this the best defence, ever?

Defence pleadings of an exceptional quality in Queensland District Court case ... Notice of intention to defend ... Abuse of process ... The Vibe ... Defamation ... The works ... There should be more pleadings in this style 

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Jul312013

So long Laurie

Updated on Thursday, August 1, 2013 by Registered CommenterJustinian

Little Laurie Glanfield out of favour with Barry O'Farrell ... Top bureaucrats reshuffled ... Not long before Laurie shuffles off to Buffalo ... Greg Pearce ponging badly ... Updated with latest development on Pearce sacking ... From political reporter Alex Mitchell 

Click to read more ...

Monday
Jul292013

Unearthing the Delilah Syndrome

Judging Gov. Arthur Phillip ... Spiggsy comes out for a book launch ... Law Society farewells the Legal Servo Commish ... Remembering a dotty crown psychiatrist ... The Delilah Syndrome 

Click to read more ...

Monday
Jul292013

Sex, married bliss and the Constitution 

Gay weddings and the state ... Is the law leaving Abbott behind? ... A flurry of opinionistas on whether the John Howard version of marriage is the end of the matter ... Whether State law would be inconsistent with the Commonwealth's ... Constitutional hanky-panky

Click to read more ...