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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Courtney Docket Tuesday, June 23, 2026Transcription update … Money for jam … AGS lawyers dropped in by parachute … Senior flack position for courts and tribunal … “Hero judge” mooted for NACC … Courtney Docket files from courtside
Cynthia Banham
On The Couch Monday, June 15, 2026On The Couch with Cynthia Banham – writer, journalist and lawyer … Justinian alumna … A life that was suddenly forever changed … The transformation from the law, to journalism, to academia, and now author … Cracking the communications codes … Researching and unearthing a family secret … Coming to terms with the self … The importance of a living garden
Sport, Race, America!
Sports Desk Sunday, June 14, 2026America at war with itself … Jackie Robinson broke down segregation in baseball … Later to become a pawn to discredit the civil rights campaigner, Paul Robeson … The Red Scare … America’s sad dance with race … Anti-communism used to support racial discrimination … Sport and politics … Braham Dabscheck reviews Howard Bryant’s Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
Bulletin from the battlements
Theodora Friday, May 22, 2026Prosecutions for contempt nowhere on the horizon … Warrior class rally for Roberts-Smith … Feasting with the Law of Rulers Institute … Campaign to sink the implied freedom of political communication … Slow sailing down the Swan River … Theodora’s Notebook
Felicity Graham
On The Couch Wednesday, May 20, 2026On The Couch with Sydney criminal barrister Felicity Graham, who has had a run of successes challenging restrictions on people’s right to assemble and protest … Unburdening the implied freedom of political communication … Life and work out west of the divide … Strong, passionate and intense … Great case in Dubbo … Foodstuffs and refrigeration
Disrespecting Salvatore
Court in the Act Thursday, April 23, 2026Transcript horror … A fresh chapter in Judge Vasta’s overbearing, bullying, threatening, and unpleasant judicial conduct … Grounds for a finding of apprehended bias … Courtney Docket reports
Kevin Anderson
Obit Wednesday, April 22, 2026Former Deputy Chief Magistrate for NSW … A man with many lives … Criminal justice reform … The era of police bashings and verbals … A catalogue of memorable cases … A singular figure in the law … A eulogy from Tom Kelly