Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >>
An Australian Abroad ... An essay with pictures … Egypt and the Grand Museum … No end to the antiquities … Down the Nile on a dahabiya … Tombs and temples … Paris and industrial-scale tourism … The Yarts & Kulture ... Read on >>
Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >>
South Australian lawyer practising without a ticket ... Latest developments in Law Society of SA v Betro ... As an alternative to invalidating all the family law trials involving the unlicenced barrister, the Full Court has been approached re possibility of granting a retrospective practising certificate ... The mother in relevant proceedings applied to be joined to argue against this ... Joinder granted on a limited basis to make written submissions. See also Unread emails
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Zeilgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 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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Junior Junior • Wednesday, December 19, 2012 There are rules for women who have children while at the bar ... No space for joys of motherhood ... Junior Junior unmoved by WBF instructions
Barristers, Motherhood, Women in law Theodora • Monday, December 17, 2012 The editor of Justinian tells the AGS information law conference in Canberra that if freedom of the press allows for the protection of a certain amount of misinformation, it should also do more to protect the truth ... The dangers of a statutory tort of privacy ... Speech ... Speech ... Speech
Free speech, Press freedom Stephen Keim & Mary B. Ayad • Saturday, December 15, 2012 Egyptians (some of them) vote to ratify a flawed Constitution ... Grab to entrench Islamist power ... Pluralism unlikely to succeed ... More for Morsi ... Background to Egypt's convulsion from Stephen Keim and Mary Ayad
Eqypt, Muslim Brotherhood Theodora • Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Storm on social media and the blogosphere over Jenny Coopes' cartoon ... When is enough, enough? ... Community outcry forces cartoonist into hiding ... Democracy at work
Cartoons, Jenny Coopes, Outcry, Social media Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Tuesday, December 4, 2012 The evolution of human rights to animal rights ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski trace the movement from Pythagoras to vegetarian monsters to William Wilberforce ... Animal rights and vegetarianism
Animal rights, Human rights, Julian Burnside Mary B. Ayad • Monday, December 3, 2012 The recent High Court ruling on the the packaging of cigarettes is not the last word ... The tobacco companies have turned to international fora in three parallel proceedings ... Potential downside is huge ... Mary Ayad argues that the Australia's sovereign interests should trump an argument about intellectual property rights
Junior Junior • Thursday, November 29, 2012 Junior Junior is not a lesbian ... She wears pink heels and still wins in the traffic court ... Two types of women barristers ... Both lethal
Women in law Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh • Monday, October 29, 2012 Community pressure and the justice system ... Frenzied media storm ... Prosecution shifted from a wide case to a narrower one ... Earlier evidence prejudicial ... Mud slinging exercise ... Stephen Keim and Salwa Marsh report
Student-at-Large • Monday, October 22, 2012 Six qualities that law firms really need in a new graduate ... Psychic powers are a job-clincher ... Draft letter from student-at-large
Junior Junior • Friday, October 19, 2012 Extracting overdue money from a solicitor while still being smarmy enough to get further briefs ... The waiting game ... So sorry to bother you ... Junior Junior thinks it time to break some legs
Barristers, Fees Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, October 15, 2012 How free is free range? ... Not very at all ... Egg industry body seeking ACCC approval to use "free range" label for farmers keeping 140,000 chooks to the hectare ... Action against false "free to roam" claims ... Trade Mark ... "Elysian Fields" embraces cooped and crushed ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski report
Junior Junior • Tuesday, October 9, 2012 It's silk time of year and Junior Junior is ticked pink to see so many of the female persuasion getting red bags ... Overtones of the Miss Universe pageant
Dorothy Says ... • Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Dorothy's helpful tips to barristers on how not to write ridiculous opinions ... Avoid expressions from 1873 ... Be clear about saying "it's not clear" ... Use less paper ... Better quality wishy-washy
Barristers, Legal opinions Junior Junior • Monday, August 27, 2012 Four blunders ... Four defence points ... Three abnormal colleagues ... Junior Junior gives us lists ... Her first week in new chambers
Theodora • Friday, August 24, 2012 At Sydney's Justice and Police Museum Justinian's editor launched Mark Tedeschi's book Eugenia ... The true story of Eugenia Falleni who lived her life as Harry Crawford ... Gender dysphoria in the early 20th century ... Launch speech
Mark Tedeschi QC