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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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50th anniversary of the Dismissal ... Panel sessions ... November 11, 2025 ... Old Parliament House Canberra ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 


 

 

 

Tuesday
Jul112023

Letter from London

Getting up to speed with Prince Harry's hacking litigation ... Spare me ... The Duke of Sussex tangles with the notion of privacy ... Press regulator IPSO makes a shock finding against the press ... Grovel from The Sun over Clarkson column ... Thamesside tales from Floyd Alexander-Hunt 

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Friday
Jul072023

Speech day

Yarraside briefs ... Sam Hay's weekly bulletins ... DPP Judd v Nettle ... A standoff beyond words ... Agonising judgment delay in visa case ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jul052023

Leon Zwier

Melbourne lawyer Leon Zwier On The Couch ... Honouring the legacy of a former partner ... The hour of need - assisting Brittany Higgins and Eryn Jean Norvill ... The misuse of documents obtained coercively in litigation ... Grudges ... Racism ... Plaited loaves 

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Wednesday
Jul052023

Law 20.1.2

Cricket and constitutional government ... The jurisprudence of dead balls ... Jurisdiction ... Lawn bowls c.f. cricket ... Ethical consistency ... Democratic inclinations ... Bazball ... Cricketing aesthetics ... From Our Cricketing Correspondent Wallace Grout 

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Tuesday
Jul042023

Lawyer not liable

Australia still holds the torch for advocates' immunity ... NSWCA gives the immunity another airing ... A living, breathing get out of jail clause ... "Public policy" that the rest of the common law world junked ... Ariana Haghighi reports 

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Thursday
Jun292023

Serious news

Shock ... McColl issues a report ... This is "serious" ... The Bromskys ... Welcome to the Law Reform Commission ... Suitable cases for the Federal Court ... Droves of Victorian SCs upgrade their baubles to KCs ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Jun272023

Darwin's glacier

Insipid movement at the Northern Territory Judicial Commission ... Complaints against the NT chief justice and the court's second most senior judge ... Allegations of conflicts ... Ducks on a small legal pond bumping into themselves ... NT correspondent Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Tuesday
Jun272023

Litigation triumphs

Former client claims that dead solicitor breached his trust ... Fidelity Fund asked to stump-up the money ... 20-year hiatus ... Plus - Silk sued over advice on solicitor's credit card debt ... Claims of conspiracy ...  Confusion ... Show cause why the LSC should not be interested ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Monday
Jun192023

Issues for the Voice box

Meltdown in WA over new Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation ... Blackfellas might stand in the path of progress ... Incandescence abounds ... Blanche divining Bob's Voice wishes ... Indigenous fishing rights ... State Law v Native Title ... Procrustes on the case 

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