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Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >> 

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London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Calls to produce scalps publicly and promptly are unhelpful."  

Major Gen. Paul Brereton, Commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission, defending his secretive and snail paced agenda ... Speaking in Adelaide at a Public Sector Governance Forum ... November 15, 2024  ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ... 


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A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... 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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Entries by Justinian (271)

Tuesday
Mar082022

Damp spirits

Scenes from a law school ... Rain ... Back to Zoom ... It's too wet to think ... Fear of law ... Thucydides ... Balzac ... Hart-Fuller ... Maxim Shanahan's Barely Legal 

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Tuesday
Feb222022

On a search for whimsy

What do law students do during the summer break ... Start a newspaper ... A counterpoint to the law's dry stuff ... First edition of Amicus Courier online now ... From Djokovic to haiku ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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Tuesday
Feb082022

Glorious Accession Day

A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart 

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Monday
Nov292021

Gorgeous George comes to town

Letter from the Dreaming Spires ... High Commissioner to the UK speaks at the Union ... A sprinkling of rapt Young Tories ... Car alarm competing for attention ... Jolly John Kerr told him Betty Windsor was in the clear ... Later rooftop revelries ... Barely Legal reports 

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Tuesday
Nov092021

Cough ... Cough

Fresh letter from the Spires ... Cacophony of coughing at students' matriculation ceremony ... Viral spray covers everything in Covid ravaged landscape ... Shift work for the vice-chancellor ... Barely Legal reports 

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Saturday
Oct302021

Letter from the Dreaming Spires

Barely Legal has moved to one of the great colleges in the green and pleasant land ... His first encounter with the college toffs ... Important to get the language right 

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Saturday
Jul312021

Clerkship chaos

Clerkship applications during the Delta wave ... Round two for those who missed last year ... A blossoming clerkship coaching industry ... The killer typo ... Law firms fluff their responses ... Dispatching emails to the wrong people ... Administrative errors ... Grovels ... Barely Legal on the front line

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Wednesday
Jun302021

NCAT sucks

The Bureau de Spank's decision not to spank a barrister over his nasty sexist piggery has caused ructions up-and-down the Street of Shame ... Attack on female barristers' clerk ... EFA, A and H ... All OK because the brief has reflected on his conduct ... Frame by frame analysis ... Name suppressed to protect offender from further harm ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Jun292021

When greenwashing can't hide the fossil stains

Company logo despoiled by climateers ... Upheld in the name of satire ... Clive Palmer didn't help ... Phil Ruddock's shield of satire saved the greenies ... Anna Kretowicz looks at how the Federal Court came to grips with parody 

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Wednesday
May262021

Time flies when you're having ... 

Freshly minted from university ... Associateship beckons ... Interim job bailing water out of the leaky parole boat ... Delays and judicial reviews ... Barely Legal finds out about stuff never taught at university 

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Wednesday
May052021

Ridd's reef

The Peter Ridd case hits the High Court ... James Cook University's termination of an academic's employment ... The freedom to say whatever you like ... Free speech and all that ... Being beastly about other academics ... Promoting views contrary to mainstream science ... Hero of the climate deniers ... Untangling the Code of Conduct and the Enterprise Agreement ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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Thursday
Apr082021

Theodora in the trenches

Robe row ... Election barrister endorses spray tan mousse ... It's April 1 at the WA bar ... Federal Court's Yarraside women's problem ... Rule of Law cult overturns Kunc opinion ... From Theodora

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Monday
Mar222021

Cover it up

A transformation is underway - even if Scott Morrison and his government cannot see it ... Woman seeking a change in the justice "culture" ... Rule of law myths for the protection of AG Porter ... Barely Legal is happy to be on the cusp of the revolution  

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Thursday
Feb182021

Counsel's advice on spinach puffs

Enduring a miserable scholarship ceremony ... How the victim of a Westpac bank robbery restored Barely Legal's faith in the pinstripe prison ... The informative Uber driver ... Two canapés too many

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Thursday
Jan282021

A treaty would help

Quite possibly, the disagreement about the appropriateness of January 26 will never be resolved ... The date is unlikely to change ... Instead, we should get on with having a national day of contention, rather than the pretence of unity ... Anna Kretowicz blogs

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