Top appointments at the Federales … Boost in hirelings from the Commonwealth public service … Promotions galore … New executive jobs … Unanswered questions … From our Federal Court hand Rodney Cake
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Sally Dowling, NSW DPP … Noel (Tolstoy) Hutley’s advice on critical findings by members of a parliamentary committee against the DPP … Findings not justified by the evidence … Conclusions had “no basis” … Were “wrong” … Involved “mere speculation” … “Devoid of reasoning” … Did not “withstand scrutiny” … And so on
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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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Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases
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Commissioner Virginia Bell criticises claims from Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin that Palestinian organisations who had leave to appear had "hijacked" the Royal Commission into antisemitism ... Counsel for the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network received Islamophobic abuse
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The NSW Attorney General accepts Noel Hutley's advice that there are no grounds to sack the DPP Sally Dowling ... Findings in a parliamentary report were baseless and speculative
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Big swinging dick from Kirkland & Ellis on how AI will change the way legal services are delivered and the fees charged
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In response to the public odium about the Christian Brothers attempt to cheat child sex victims out of full compensation there's been a change of course ... Vital details still untested
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Three speeches from the Trump administration in a single day that demonstrate the dying of American democracy
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Law Council objects to ART "efficiency" reforms ... Managing the expanded workload ... Expanded powers for registrars and limiting the requirement for written reasons
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Trump sools Department of Justice onto law firms that were targeted at the start of his second term ... Demands for top partners to sit for depositions and hand over documents
Jonathan Sumption … On judges keeping their noses out of government policy
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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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Innovations from the House of JADE …
Connecting books, chambers and case law in one search … Start your own library free, no chambers required, and build court-ready lists of authorities …
Conspectus … Receive a brief, understand it, prepare and assemble the court book, then present and file – all in one place, built for barristers by the makers of JADE …
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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
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