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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ...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 >>
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 >>
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 proudly publishes some of the finest lawyers ever to get their fingers near a computer keyboard. This is part of Justinian's repository that comes out from behind the paywall.
Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife.
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about.
Comment - Untamed opinions.
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics.
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on.
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar.
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout.
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs.
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions.
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher.
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions.
We'd happily induct you into the blawging hall of fame if you wanted to unpack a few burning issues. Contact the Ed. for further and better particulars.
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Dr Criminale • Friday, September 27, 2013 Teaching students? - forget about it ... The pressing work of law faculty academics is filling out online forms and formatting medical certificates ... Dr Criminale flunks his test with the university's Office of Strategy and Outcomes
Academic life, Sick leave, Universities Junior Junior • Thursday, September 26, 2013 Junior Junior goes all political ... Her sought-after insights on the federal election and the bar's tussle over incorporation ... Time for change ... Colleagues agree
Federal election 2013, Incorporation, NSW Bar Dr Criminale • Friday, July 19, 2013 A kind of madness grips Dr Criminale as his allocated pile of exam papers doesn't seem to diminish ... The academic art of staying conscious while assessing the work of students ... The production mill that manufactures new lawyers
Examinations, Law students, Universities Junior Junior • Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Treachery among learned friends ... Being double-crossed by one's own ... Junior Junior would rather play fair and lose the case, than foul and win it ... How honourable can you get?
Barristers, Treachery Junior Junior • Friday, June 28, 2013 "Why are you here?" the judge asks ... Lessons from a run of losses ... Junior Junior is advised about the virtue of defeat
Junior bar Dr Criminale • Sunday, June 23, 2013 Law students and their sense of entitlement ... The daily horror of confronting the demands of undeserving yoof ... Dr Criminale teaches at one of our leading halls of learning and is on the front line of the battle
Academic life Peter Lyons • Friday, June 21, 2013 Obit ... Peter Lyons visited an ailing Michael Hodgman QC in a nursing home, where he gives an unusually short answer ... In the grip of emphysema ... One of Tasmania's more unpredictable lawyer-politicians ... "What has the amazement of the Australian citizen got to go with it?" asks Gummow J ... Hodgman RIP
Michael Hodgman Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh • Monday, June 10, 2013 As the latest snoop revelations show, the security apparatus knows no limits ... How Australia played a role in secret detention and extraordinary rendition ... Globalizing Terror ... The case of Khaled El-Masri ... The ECHR tells a harrowing story of prisoner abuse ... From Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh
Felicity Gerry • Thursday, June 6, 2013 UK criminal barrister Felicity Gerry in the Top End ... Meeting Les, witness number five at the Bradley Murdoch trial ... Picked-up by "ex-police officers with a mining interest" ... Spicy meat pies at the Barrow Creek Hotel and other Territory treats
Bradley Murdoch, Northern Territory Junior Junior • Wednesday, June 5, 2013 When do I get to fly business class? ... Is it true that as barristers' incomes grow, they lose touch with the early years of poverty? ... Why is that small licks of money are spent as though the good times never end? ... Junior Junior ponders these and other questions, as she prepares for an economy flight on China Air
Dr Criminale • Thursday, May 23, 2013 The trials and tribulations of law school lecturing ... Achievers, plodders and bottom dwellers ... University entry requirements lowered - a boon for bottom-dwellers ... Ten percent take up 25 percent of the time and effort ... Senior law lecturer Dr Criminale takes to his keyboard and blogs
Law faculties, Law students, Universities Laura Norna • Sunday, May 19, 2013
Updated on Friday, May 24, 2013 by
Justinian
New South Wales' new bail legislation ... Presumption against bail still there in all but name ... Juveniles get one extra chance to reapply ... In last 30 years the proportion of the prison population on remand has doubled ... Legislation designed to please the police ... Former magistrate Max Taylor reports
Bail, NSW Law Reform Commission Theodora • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Rolf Harris named in the mainstream media following his arrest ... Now lawyers and MPs want to restrict naming of people arrested, but not yet charged ... The Jimmy Savile affair and the spread of allegations ... "Everyone" knew, but no one did anything ... Where's the money? ... Investigation industry thriving ... Theodora on the case
Defamation, Jimmy Savile, Sexual abuse Junior Junior • Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Baby barristers are such a bargain, so why aren't they snaffled-up? ... Junior Junior says clients should get rid of over-priced panel firms and use in-house solicitors as the go-betweens ... Saves money, which could then be spent on the barrister
Billings, Fees, In-house solicitors Stephen Keim • Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Runaway hit ... Book about the war on drugs in the US and the criminalisation of large parts of the Afro-American population ... Supreme Court validates racial bias of the criminal justice system ... Blacks like crack cocaine, whites prefer powder cocaine ... Sentencing discrepancies ... US incarceration rate the highest in the world ... Book review by Stephen Keim
Criminal justice, Racism, US Supreme Court