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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 >> 

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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 >> 

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    • The New York Times
      Right-wing operatives use law firm pro bono arrangements, extracted under blackmail, to support personal causes
    • The Australian Financial Review
      The naivety that guided the King & Wood Mallesons merger ... And the failure that followed
    • Pearls and Irritations
      Jewish organisation pressing the governmwnt to take a stronger stand against Israel and its genocide in Gaza
    • The Australian Financial Review
      Allan Myers KC, the squire of Dunkeld ... All sorts of rules a regulations and some of the locals are grumbling
    • ABC Law Report
      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
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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 >> 

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Tasmanis's Lieutenant Guv (and CJ) Christopher Shenanigans is unlikely to decide the consitiutional impass ... The current guv'nor, former Circuit Court judge and family lawyer Barbara Baker returns to Guv House next week ... Labor hates the Greens and is unlikely to form a coalition government ... Another election looks likely as the numbers for both sides are brittle and unreliable ... However, Baker can ask the Labor leader to test his numbers. 

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"In its self-image, Australia has changed from a nation of tough, resilient Anzacs to a snowflake society of victims. This can be seen in the rise of identity politics, cancel culture, trigger warnings, unconscious bias, workplace Broderickism, LGBTQIA+ pleading, colonisation impacts, hidden disabilities and welfare dependency. Hurt feelings, offensive words, micro-aggressions, workload stress and anxiety now form the basis of workers compensation claims."

Mark Latham MLC - a dissenting statement in a parliamentary report on proposed changes to workers compensation law ... May 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 

 

 

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Friday
Aug092024

Latest intrigues

, • DateFriday, August 9, 2024

Banana Benders and the politics of judicial selection ... Tas Bar votes against Royal gongs ... Vic Bar's new talk shop ... International law - the ABA ducks the hard questions ... Theodora's Goings On ...  

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Thursday
Aug082024

Judges on the ropes

• DateThursday, August 8, 2024

Hellish judgment from the Circuit Court ... Riparian water rights ... Wars of the 21st century ... Litigants and dangerous sexual offender left in limbo by WA Supremes ... From our Courtside Correspondent 

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Tuesday
Aug062024

Letter from London

• DateTuesday, August 6, 2024

Swearing during ethics exam likely to bring the profession into disrepute ... Rwanda on ice ... Magistrate ticked off for butting into animal cruelty discourse ... Charles tells parliament about a battery of 40 Bills and the flowering of economic growth ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes from the Old Dart 

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Monday
Aug052024

Gone fishing

• DateMonday, August 5, 2024

Native Title Act ... Fishing rights ... Abalone principally reserved for the Chinese market ... State fishing laws breached by Indigenous fishers ... NSW and South Australian appeal courts differ on the "legal burden" of defendants and their native title qualifications ... Comity ... Something for the Saloon to resolve ... Procrustes, the fisherman's friend, reports 

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Friday
Aug022024

Hopelessness

• DateFriday, August 2, 2024

Lawyer sued over waste of time and money for unsuccessful defence ... Obligation to warn ... Failure to read documents - unwise, but not negligent ... Client disabused of false expectations ... Lawyer in the clear ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Jul312024

Tottling into court

• DateWednesday, July 31, 2024

Sen. Reynolds's (Lib. WA) defamation case ... Opening shots ... Western Australia, land of the stolen GST and big libel awards ... Trial judge Paul Tottle ... What's next for Brittany Higgins ... Research by Stephen Murray 

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Tuesday
Jul302024

Trump v US

• DateTuesday, July 30, 2024

Judge Aileen Cannon ... No more special prosecutors ... Rogue judges at the highest level ... Presidential immunity decision worse than anticipated ... A dreadful partisan court ... Milwaukee convention ... Vance has no conviction - unlike his running mate ... Roger Fitch files from Washington  

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Friday
Jul262024

Senator sues staffer raped on her couch

• DateFriday, July 26, 2024

Reynolds v Higgins ... Protective trust ... Implied Harman undertakings insufficient to stop plaintiff's leaks to the media ... Patsy "journalists" engaged in harassment of the defendant ... Strong defence pleadings ... NACC and Integrity Commission investigation into Sofronoff leaks ... Sandy Groper reports from Perth 

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Thursday
Jul252024

Turnover on the factory floor 

• DateThursday, July 25, 2024

Churn at the Federal Court ... Executives move on ... Acting appointments ... AAT recruitments ... Down the garden path with CourtPath ... Jackboots uncensored ... Felicity Fume reports 

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