Law & Justice

NEWS

Commercialisation of legal research … Austlii responds to news about startups entering the field of legal research … “Free and anonymous access to primary legal information is a human right in a democratic society governed by the rule of law”

POLITICS MEDIA LAW SOCIETY

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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EDITOR’S CHOICE

Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases

The Australian

Parliamentary review of NSW Law Society's monopoly control of solicitors indemnity insurance ... LawCover in the frame
The Saturday Paper

Alan Jones goes to Mark Foys
Financial Review

Farewell Tony Hartnell ... Allens partner, corporate czar, horse breeder, one half of Antagonistic & Heartless, and trencherman extraordinaire
The New Yorker

The delusions of Chief Justice John Roberts ... He just can't see the bias
Guardian Australia

Victorian government flags amendments to the Open Courts Act ... Review underway ... Interim suppression orders for accused rapists to be restricted ... Outcry over orders granted to Ralph (The Rug) Carr and Tom Silvagni
The Australian

Allens' scant investigation into KPMG ... Just two 30-minute interviews with former KPMG partners with a finding that whistleblower's allegations were unsubstantiated ... 61-page report released by parliamentary committee

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

NEWS SNIP

CEO and Principal Registrar … Succession plan underway for top administrative job at the Federal Court … Head hunters looking for someone who ideally possesses legal qualifications and is ideally based in Sydney or Melbourne

JUSTINIAN’S BLOGGERS

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

FLATULENCE

“This was part of an iterative back-and-forth process in the beginning of the due diligence phase I was conducting on this potential supplier, letting them know at least some baseline requirements of what might be required for us to – for me, in the documentation, on the documentary basis, for the due diligence to continue.”

Evidence to ICAC by the former head of Catholic Schools NSW, Dallas McInerney, describing the process in hiring Beckington, a bogus PR and lobbying outfit, used to wash the schools’ money for stacking Liberal branches with hard-line Catholics. August 14, 2026

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JUSTINIAN FEATURETTES

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

JUSTINIAN’S ARCHIVE

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

Choice pickings

Law & Justice Sunday, January 25, 2026

Ten of Justinian’s selected illuminations from 2025 … News you may have missed … Disturbing morsels … Human frailty … Unhappy relationships … Despair and hope … Smorgasbord of delights

Balkan intrigues

Law & Justice Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry … 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism … Miscarriage of justice under review … Serried ranks of lawyers before Acting Justice Hulme … Verballing … Loading-up … Old fashioned detective “work” … Evidence so far … Hamish McDonald reports

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