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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 ... 


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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 >> 

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
Sep142021

The tail end of the American century

Decline and fall following 9/11 ... Damage wrought by the "war on terror" ... Democracy looks wobbly ... Brigade of unscrupulous lawyers shredded the law ... Nacht und Nebel ... Guantánamo detainees now in the Taliban government ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Friday
Sep102021

Vlad impaled

A WIN win ... Atanaskovic unsuccessful in fight over bill ... Client charged for investigation into money filched by firm's employee ... Promise not to charge ... Work infected by conflict ... No informed consent ... Goodbye $150,000 ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Friday
Sep102021

Vignettes

Chambers lockdown as Covid strikes gilded floor ... Cows come home in well-executed judicial flourish ... Family lawyers urged to wise-up to "reputation risk management" ... Magistrate sticks his beak into reworking the prosecution case ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep092021

Western mail

Laying it on thick at swearing-in ceremonies ... Facts ignored in the face of too much grovel ...  Quick judge spanked for slowing down the works ... Anti-rights zealot plonked into the human rights chair ... Groper reports from Perth 

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Tuesday
Sep072021

Guns and taxes

Tasmanian tax luminary goes down in land tax appeal ... Properties held in trust and super fund ... Back tax assessed ... Incorrect classification as "principal residence" ... Facts not law 

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Monday
Sep062021

Full-throttle public spanking

Court of Appeal throws out muddle-headed Law Society plea to suppress identity of "permanently" unfit solicitor ... Offending solicitor's name already online ... Open justice ... Public must not think lawyers get favourable treatment, even though they do ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Sunday
Sep052021

Google foe goes down before the stipes

Gangland lawyer done for professional misconduct ... Misleading the VLSC ... Relationship dispute ... Acting for one partner when previously acted for the other ... Delays ... Procrastination ... Reckless misstatements ... A good wet lettucing ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case 

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Saturday
Sep042021

Vintage pandemic

Spanish Flu and Covid-19 ... War and contagion ... Consequences for wine grape harvests ... European and Australian vintages in 1919-1920 compared to 2020-2021 ... Australia's bounteous 2021 wine grape crush ... Excellent fruit all around ... First world issues ... Wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler writes 

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Wednesday
Sep012021

Dispatches from Kabul

Fear and uncertainty confront the Afghani legal profession ... Lawyers, law and chaos ... Kabul lawyer says his practice has been "suspended" ... Women judges ... Destruction of legal research work at the university ... Return of a Sharia legal system ... Lawyers and judges in flight 

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