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Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered  ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>

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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>

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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 ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

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
Aug112025

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 ... Court reporter Ginger Snatch files 

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Wednesday
Aug062025

Time's up for Naughty Nathan

Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled ... Misuse of online funding campaigns ... Spraying ripe and abusive language ... Trolling Robert Beech-Jones ... So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Aug062025

Wither the Republic

Twenty years of Roger Fitch ... He says this is his last column from Washington ... A brief history of American law and governance since Bush II ... The Roberts' court and reshaping the Constitution ... Hollowing out the Bill of Rights ... Murdoch's malign influence ... Shakedowns and bribes 

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Tuesday
Aug052025

Star gazing

Mentally disordered visa applicant ... Treatment by Commonwealth functionaries ... Taking responsibility personally ... Cancellation ... Revocation ... Procrustes reports from the gutter 

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Thursday
Jul312025

Postcard from London

Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty 

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Thursday
Jul312025

To have and to hold

Holding judicial office ... When does it take effect? ... Letter of appointment ... Blood oath ... Upper Tribunal appointment in the Old Dart ... Former Labor politician underwater in salary gambit ... From FCA roundsman Rodney Cake 

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Wednesday
Jul302025

Upstairs. Downstairs

Birchings for Circus Court judge ... Real estate drama ... Tenancy nightmare ... Adjournment application ... Need to look after elderly dogs ... Federal Court rides to the rescue. Plus ... Court weighs visa applicant's claim to be gay ... Appeal lottery ... Ginger Snatch reports courtside  

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Friday
Jul252025

Potty mouth solicitor dispatched

NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults ... Insufficiently professional ... Arrived from Greece with only his underpants ... No contrition ... Anthony Kanaan files 

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Thursday
Jul242025

Keep the engine running

Central Asian law firm in 20 year Sydney spat with former partner ... The lost voice ... The joys of disproportionate litigation ... Prolixity ... Penny ante disputes ... Exasperation ... Bureau de Spank looms ... Plus ... Barrister in the sickbay ... Application to vacate ... Stoicism at the bar ... Wrong for respondents to expect unwell counsel to appear ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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