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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >> 

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      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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      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
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      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
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      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
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      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >> 

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Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Monday
Dec142015

Hyperventilation and hostility

• DateMonday, December 14, 2015

ICAC ... Conflicts of interest ... Journalists as players and recipients of leaks ... Unsound assertions in Inspector Levine's unsatisfactory report on the Cunneen case ... It's important that commissioner Megan Latham not yield in the face of tribal attacks 

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Thursday
Dec102015

Being perfect is bad

• DateThursday, December 10, 2015

It's depressing for law students ... Trying too hard to be perfect while feeling that work is pointless ... Where do we get off? ... Law students less inclined to share and help ... Too much competition ... Barely Legal gets the end-of-year blues 

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Thursday
Dec102015

Who is the real Inspector Clouseau?

• DateThursday, December 10, 2015

Former ICAC commissioner David Ipp rejects The Australian's criticism of the Doyles Creek Mining corruption findings ... Corrupt grant of exploration licence that robbed the state of well over $50 million ... Misplaced attack on ICAC inquiry 

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Friday
Dec042015

Salaciousness disguised as gravitas

• DateFriday, December 4, 2015

Book launch news ... Defamatorium ... Launch by Justinian's editor of David Rolph's steamy, yet scholarly, work on defamation law ... Cocktails and nourishment turned on by Gilbert + Tobin ... Historic occasion on which a book was not launched by Michael Kirby 

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Friday
Dec042015

Prison - the new normal

• DateFriday, December 4, 2015

Law Council's Indigenous imprisonment symposium ... Cutting the incarceration rate ... Growing concern amid the political inaction ... Suggestions, policies, strategies ... Where to start? ... From Kate Lilly at Conferenceville 

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Tuesday
Dec012015

Chinese whispers

• DateTuesday, December 1, 2015

Former Keddies man successfully fends off claims he breached court order to keep away from a former client ... Overcharging ... Whether Scott Roulstone had "communicated" with the client by addressing a cheque to him ... Candour and honesty ... Bar ordered to issue a trading ticket ... Some unexplained issues linger 

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Monday
Nov302015

Emu roadkill in Austria

• DateMonday, November 30, 2015

Britain and the EU ... In or Out ... Conferenceville in Europe ... Hot-tubbing ... Hybrid nature of international arbitration ... No schnitzel for Leverhulme in Austria ... Germans preoccupied by Syrian refugees ... Hold the roast goose ... London Calling 

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Friday
Nov272015

Made in the USA

• DateFriday, November 27, 2015

The Americans couldn't believe their luck in drawing Andrew Robb as Australia's TPP negotiator ... New war crimes swing into action ... The problem with Syrian refugees ... Judicial rewards for lawyers who dream-up dodgy advice on drones and torture ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Friday
Nov202015

Recusal news

• DateFriday, November 20, 2015

A decade's worth of recusals ... Judges are taken, or take themselves, off cases where the appearance of conflicts looms too large ... Bias survey in the wake of the unsuccessful disqualification application in Dyson Heydon's case ... From Emily Meller 

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