The law and its miracles ... Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld ... Justice Jenni Hill's brother ... More entries for the Golden Tortoise award ... Federal Court muddles the maths, again ... Theodora reports ... Read more >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Being a lawyer can be sheer misery ... Psychological distress ... Workplace incivility ... Lack of support ... Rotten culture ... Report on wellbeing ... More >>
Governance turmoil at Tiny Town Law Society ... Night of the long knives ... Lakeside in Canberra ... ACT Law Society upheaval over governance changes ... Bodies carted out of the council room ... Blood on the carpet ... Fraught litigation another distraction ... From Gang Gang ... Read more >>
Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... Read more >>
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Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, February 16, 2021 If you occupy the high ground, you control everything ... A white man's war-time notion ... Colonial invasion in all its savagery ... The King's law confronts justice for the dispossessed ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, January 14, 2021 Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation
Film review, Streaming Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape in New York's Sofitel ... Victim monstered by lawyers ... Elaborate conspiracy theories ... The same old story ... Director General of the IMF blows-up a beautiful political future ... Miss Lumière on a peculiar French penchant
Wendler on Wine • Tuesday, November 3, 2020 A ripping yarn ... Stalin and the Tsar's wine cellar ... Adventures in Georgia with George and Nino ... Hunting for Chateau d'Yquem ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler recalls a lasting taste memory ... History and geography ... Raiders of the Lost Wine
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Brutal America ... March 1969 and the trial of seven anti-war protesters ... Yippees ... Chicago police riot ... Biased and incompetent judge ... Contempt in all its many guises ... Miss Lumière reviews Aaron Sorkin's take on a stormy, shambolic trial
Film review Saturday, October 24, 2020 Pressing questions ... Is Assange a journalist, a publisher, a combatant in information warfare, a tool of Russia? ... Do journalistic standards apply? ... Does it matter? ... The superseding indictment ... The Espionage Act and the First Amendment ... Lacunae in the law ... Janek Drevikovsky explains
Groper • Thursday, October 15, 2020 Girt by sea ... Latest from the west ... Murder-suicide and the family court "system" ... Non-reappointment for the anti-corruption commissioner ... Christian's virtues ... Mr Palmer ... Scotty from Marketing ... And others ... Sandgroper's letter from Perth
Western Australia Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, October 9, 2020 Streaming now ... Based on the former FBI director's book ... An insight into America's trauma ... A president hell-bent on suborning the bureau to his will ... A mafioso in the White House ... Hillary's emails and the 2016 election ... The Russia investigation ... Everyone is compromised ... Miss Lumière dips her toe into the swamp
Court in the Act • Friday, October 2, 2020 Requiem for a company ... Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full