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      Prominent criminal barrister disbarred over false claims he studied at Oxford
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      Reasonable belief ... The first successful application of the public interest defence for defamation in Australia
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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 >>

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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 ... 

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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 >> 

 

 

 

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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Friday
Mar172023

Fresh hell

, • DateFriday, March 17, 2023

Importance Witness in claim for Aboriginality found to be alive .. Federal Court corrects the record ... How to get ahead - masterclass spiked ... Energiser batteries implanted in Sam Hay KC ... Another slow delivery from Jenni Hill J ... Theodora reports

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Wednesday
Mar152023

A speechless Voice

• DateWednesday, March 15, 2023

Bar brawl over The Voice ... Incandescent outcry over Walker SC's comments about The Voice ... New scheme from right of centre to cauterise The Voice ... Planet to the rescue ... Muddled thoughts from indentured hacks ... Peace, order and good government 

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Thursday
Mar092023

Your green slip is showing

• DateThursday, March 9, 2023

Third Party in strife ... Mile long delays for medical assessments ... NSW judicial officer fires back with lengthy screed ... Improper process ... Parliamentary committee spanks judge ... Failure to recuse ... Theodora reports 

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