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The law and its miracles ... Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld ... Justice Jenni Hill's brother ... More entries for the Golden Tortoise award ... Federal Court muddles the maths, again ... Theodora reports ... Read more >>

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Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >> 

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      Scathing report on the quality and rigour of PLT training for entrants to the legal profession
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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Being a lawyer can be sheer misery ... Psychological distress ... Workplace incivility ... Lack of support ... Rotten culture ... Report on wellbeing ... More >> 

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Governance turmoil at Tiny Town Law Society ... Night of the long knives ... Lakeside in Canberra ... ACT Law Society upheaval over governance changes ... Bodies carted out of the council room ... Blood on the carpet ... Fraught litigation another distraction ... From Gang Gang ... Read more >> 

"One wonders whether a murderer who later contributes to society might be treated better that Heydon has been." 

Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian seeking the resurrection of former justice Dyson Heydon whose sexual predations ruined the legal careers of young women associates at the High Court ... April 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Thursday
Apr062023

Bureau de Spank

• DateThursday, April 6, 2023

Legal delinquents across the land were denied hopes for Lenten salvation ... Variously censured, stripped, smacked and suspended (not from a cross) ... Max Shanahan with the latest professional lapses  

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Thursday
Apr062023

Our Man in Washington

• DateThursday, April 6, 2023

Lawyers, guns & money ... Trump turns his indictment into a cash cow ... More guns for Republicans ... Gun originalism ... Judicial manipulation ... Torture memos ... Review of detainee treatment ... Wisconsin Supreme Court on the move ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Friday
Mar312023

On the wilder shores of the law

• DateFriday, March 31, 2023

Hawaii the jurisdiction of choice for Australia's sovereign citizens ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with "pseudolaw" ... Fruitcake theories ... Conspiracies writ large ... Deluge of cases 

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Thursday
Mar302023

Human Rights Commission says "boo"

• DateThursday, March 30, 2023

Crisis prone Human Rights Commission puts its head above the trench ... Human Rights Act proposed for Australia ... Years of pallid rights activity during Coalition reign ... Unsuitable appointments ... Out-of-step HR commissioner junks the Voice ... Rights legislation mauled in the UK ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Mar302023

The money or the box

• DateThursday, March 30, 2023

No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ... Lawyers who hatched the plan to spring Henry Keogh from the clink fail in fees bid ... The Manock defence ... Incompetence ... Procrustes brings down the curtain on a 30-year long production 

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Wednesday
Mar292023

Australia's kakistocracy

• DateWednesday, March 29, 2023

Robodebt - a Frankenstein Monster ... Technology unchecked ... Liberal governments' traditional distain for welfare recipients ... Targeting the most vulnerable ... Legal concerns ... Failure at every level ... Duck shoving and deceit exposed by Royal Commission ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Mar242023

Voices from on High

• DateFriday, March 24, 2023

Capturing the essence of constitutional thinking ... Three former High Court judges write in favour of the Voice ... One against (three guesses) ... Overview of the principal contentions ... Justinian wields the scissors and paste pot 

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Thursday
Mar232023

Voices in his head

• DateThursday, March 23, 2023

A legislated Indigenous Voice based on the Constitution is no different to what we are used to ... No complications ... What Third House? ... Scare campaign by dingbats about tsunami of litigation ... Plus - Coco and the magic art of policing ... Fitted up by Plod ... Procrustes vents 

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Wednesday
Mar222023

Election fever

• DateWednesday, March 22, 2023

On The Couch with NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman and Opposition justice spokesman Michael Daley ... Duelling contentions ... Vision statements ... The happiness meter ... Last meals 

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