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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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      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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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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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 >> 

 

 

Friday
Jan272023

Lest we forget

• DateFriday, January 27, 2023

Justinian's review of lawyers and the law for 2022 ... A strangely memorable yet forgettable year ... Few, if any, elephant stamps ... Frantic activity by the new attorney general ... News from the Foreign Desk ... Law 'n Order ... Misconduct ... The works, from Max Shanahan 

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Tuesday
Jan172023

The Man Without A Face

• DateTuesday, January 17, 2023

Encomiums for George Pell ... Peter Dutton's contribution stands out for its sheer idiocy ... The Cardinal's fan club ignores the facts unearthed by the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse ... Role of the jury in the modern world ... Procrustes in sorrow and anger 

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Thursday
Dec292022

ICC defence lawyers revolt

• DateThursday, December 29, 2022

Defence counsel's shabby pay and conditions at the International Criminal Court ... Legal aid negotiations dragging on indefinitely ... Pay stuck at 2013 level ... An unbalanced system ... The bench decidedly frosty ... Silence in the court ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Dec272022

End of the road

• DateTuesday, December 27, 2022

Slide into financial ruin ... Prison ... Tickling the trust account to stay afloat ... Multiple instances of trust irregularities ... Poker machines of no assistance ... Ill-health ... Doom ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Saturday
Dec242022

Ancient ruins

• DateSaturday, December 24, 2022

Greeks want the Brits to stop playing with their marbles ... Restitution of stolen art ... Norman Palmer ... Amendments to evidentiary procedure ... Planet Janet off-piste ... Full Feds do their worst for a five-year-old ... Procrustes lets off steam 

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Friday
Dec162022

WA Madge says, 'don't mess with me'

• DateFriday, December 16, 2022

Contentious magistrate shifted from WA Children's Court ... Constitutional imperilment ... Independence of judicial officers ... Argy-bargy with head of jurisdiction ... Government meddling ... Big drama, according to Groper 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Another Jarndyce

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years ... Delays and apprehended bias ... Distain and disregard ... Going nowhere after eight years ... Retrial ordered ... Start again ... Artemus Jones reports 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Trump's tipping point

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

The stolen documents saga ... The attempted coup ... Legal problems piling up for Trump ... 70 million people in America still believe the dangerous fantasies of a disturbed mountebank ... Criminal servitude beckons ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Friday
Dec092022

Kompromat

, • DateFriday, December 9, 2022

Russians and their fake evidence ... Alliance Française in Siberia ... On the run from the FSB ... Svetlana to the rescue ... Suspense ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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