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      Reasonable belief ... The first successful application of the public interest defence for defamation in Australia
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50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 

 

 

 

Monday
Oct072024

Online incitements

• DateMonday, October 7, 2024

Riots in English cities fed by online misinformation about refugees ... Policing and prosecution policies ... Fast and furious processing of offenders ... Online Safety Act grapples with new challenges ... Increased policing of speech on tech platforms ... Hugh Vuillier reports from London 

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Thursday
Oct032024

Postcard from London

• DateThursday, October 3, 2024

Watching Starmer mince the sausages ... How to move a file from the inactive list ... Court's failed email notification system ...Sleep monitors want to measure the extent of lawyers' restfulness ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from London 

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Wednesday
Sep252024

Sore bottoms on the bench

, • DateWednesday, September 25, 2024

Birchings for judgments that went askew ... Appeal reasons from higher up the food chain ... FCA judge finds that a commercial loss is really a bargain ... Trauma at the Tribunal ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Sep232024

All hands on deck

• DateMonday, September 23, 2024

Sexual intercourse ... Onus of proof ... Loss of a ship at sea ... Dicta of Michael Lee in Lehrmann ... House of Lords and Sherlock Holmes ... Unsatisfactory witnesses ... Federal Circuit Court unable to make findings ... Case dismissed ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Wednesday
Sep182024

750 paragraphs later ...

• DateWednesday, September 18, 2024

Family dramas out west ... Justinian's solemn duty to point out where things go awry ... Rapid-rise family judge fails to explain ... Parenting orders revisited on appeal ... Order for equal parenting that nobody wanted ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep182024

Armidale Madge ejected

• DateWednesday, September 18, 2024

Local Court Madge goes head-to-head with "truculent" brief in finger licking case ... Shouting match ... Crossing the line ... "First warning" ... Transcript ... Historical note .. Reflections on defending vigorously ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep182024

Degrees of punishment

• DateWednesday, September 18, 2024

Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports 

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Wednesday
Sep112024

Tootsies with Planet Janet

• DateWednesday, September 11, 2024

Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen  

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Friday
Sep062024

Goings On

, • DateFriday, September 6, 2024

UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On 

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