NEWS
Farrugia v The King … Their Highnesses deal with an alleged conflict of interest by senior counsel defending two drug importers … Different submissions in the District Court on the objective seriousness of each defendant’s offending … The appellant received a longer custodial sentence … Evidence was not adduced by the appellant as to the advice he received or instructions he gave to senior counsel … Therefore, no conflict was established … Majority: Gageler, Gordon, Steward, Gleeson & Beech-Jones. Minority: Edelman & Jagot
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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
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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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Bolstering Counter-Terrorism Laws … Expanded counter-terrorism regime … Stronger control order and post-sentencing framework in the Criminal Code …Warrants for electronic surveillance in preparation for a control order request
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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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“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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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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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
... Read more >>Robert Beech-Jones takes on the ultra-cons … Rousing and stimulating speech … The struggle to embalm the Constitution … Froth and bubble from fishwrap scribbler … Missing the point and the irony … From William Boot on Justinian’s Editorial Desk
Jews, journalism, and antisemitism … Bondi three days on … Knees are jerking … Some nuanced reflections amid the hot air … Justinian picks up the pen after putting it down