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”
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
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
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
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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
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
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
“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
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
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