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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >> 

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Justinian Columnists

"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >> 

Blow the whistle

 

News snips ...

Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ... 

Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

Justinian Featurettes

Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Justinian bloggers (blawg)


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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Tuesday
Aug062024

Letter from London

• DateTuesday, August 6, 2024

Swearing during ethics exam likely to bring the profession into disrepute ... Rwanda on ice ... Magistrate ticked off for butting into animal cruelty discourse ... Charles tells parliament about a battery of 40 Bills and the flowering of economic growth ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes from the Old Dart 

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Thursday
May302024

Courtroom capers

DateThursday, May 30, 2024

Federal Court's digital hiccups ... Principal Registrar in home run ... Pronunciation requirements for names and pre-nominate ... Elocution audit ... Common law shuffle in New South Wales ... Vicki Mole reports 

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Wednesday
May292024

Letter from Blighty

• DateWednesday, May 29, 2024

Rishi rushing to the polls ... Gen Z sent to the trenches ... Tongue tied law firm receptionist ... Putting you through to the wrong person ...Young solicitors told they had not qualified ... Exam fiasco ... Trying to catch the Septics pay packets ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from London 

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Tuesday
Apr302024

Letter from London

DateTuesday, April 30, 2024

Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees 

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Wednesday
Mar272024

Letter from London 

• DateWednesday, March 27, 2024

Brits obsession with the Royals ... Staffers in the frame for attempted theft of Princess Kate's medical records ... Bitcoin liberated from false claims by Satoshi Nakamoto ... Struck off for inflated time records ... Rwanda - plain sailing ahead ... From our correspondent in Blighty Floyd Alexander-Hunt 

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Tuesday
Feb272024

News from Blighty

• DateTuesday, February 27, 2024

Noises off render Assange hearing inaudible ... Image merchants throwing the copyright book at AI - Parliamentary Digital Committee reports ... Slow headway with costly plan to pack asylum seekers to spooky African regime ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports 

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Tuesday
Jan302024

A not so dry January

• DateTuesday, January 30, 2024

Floyd Alexander-Hunt's Letter from London ... The lawyer-juror who searched the internet for answers ... 15-months is seen as a serious delay for judgment delivery ... Large-scale miscarriage of justice in fake fraud allegations ... The delivery driver who acted as an agent for panel beaters 

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Tuesday
Dec192023

Unknotting Al-Kateb

• DateTuesday, December 19, 2023

High Court's twists and turns ... What's punitive ... "Reasonable adaptation" ... The cautionary principle ... Legislative inconsistency ... Indefinite detention ... Preventative detention ... New bridging visa conditions ... Further challenges ... Analysis by Ariana Haghighi 

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Tuesday
Nov212023

Vale Mon

• DateTuesday, November 21, 2023

Tribute to Monique St John ... Justinian's Marianne dies ... Showgirl, muse and late night companion to leading lights in the judiciary ... Front cover privacy exclusive ... Sir Murray Rivers embarrasses the Melbourne establishment 

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Thursday
Oct192023

Letter from London

• DateThursday, October 19, 2023

"Can I just mention?" ... Judges show their Arsenal tickets ... Netflix bends it with Beckham ... Giant US-UK law shop fusion ... AG gets the branding wrong ... Jail house blues ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty 

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Tuesday
Sep192023

Letter from London

• DateTuesday, September 19, 2023

Fighting SLAPP and tickle with a task force ... Law firm managing partner siphoned £64 million from the clients for a property spree ...  Bed sheets assist terror accused escape from pokey ... Birth father looped into adoption details ... Throwing the book at climate protestors ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from the Old Dart

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Tuesday
May092023

Wither pro bono?

• DateTuesday, May 9, 2023

There's no such thing as a free lunch ... And free lawyers are just as scarce ... Pro bono arrangement scrapped by SA appeal court ... Disincentive for lawyers to do the hard yards on wrongful conviction cases ... Hugh Selby writes 

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Friday
Mar242023

Voices from on High

DateFriday, March 24, 2023

Capturing the essence of constitutional thinking ... Three former High Court judges write in favour of the Voice ... One against (three guesses) ... Overview of the principal contentions ... Justinian wields the scissors and paste pot

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Wednesday
Mar082023

Unclean Bill of Health

, • DateWednesday, March 8, 2023

Victoria's plan for centralised health records ... Compulsory opt-in ... No opt-out ... Human rights and privacy concerns ... Potential leakage of sensitive personal details ... Digital records of the unhealthy ... Hugh Vuillier reports from Yarraside 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Postcard from Paris

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

Strikes, protests and disruption ... The revolutionary spirit persists over planned new retirement age for French workers ... Wine spilt in the 4th ... Country could run out of pension money as contributions dwindle ... Sir Withnail on the latest manifestations 

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