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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan 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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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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Debbie Does Damien ... Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... ABC's Law Report ... The ins and out of live streaming and the media's access to documents ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Dec082020

No soft balls here

Important cases from The Dart ... The law of cricket ... Adults using a proper cricket ball ... The defence of illegality ... Guns in court ... Leverhulme's tribute to lord justice of appeal Roy Beldam 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

Those wicked press lords

Critiquing Bathurst CJ on defamation law ... World view from the plaintiff's corner ... Large corporate media interests trying to set the reform agenda ... Meddling with the common law ... Artemus Jones comments 

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Friday
Dec042020

Close to home

Rumours scotched that Family Court CJ is shifting chambers to Hobart ... Wild oysters are calling ... Hobart docket ... Sheriff leaves a door open at Nowra Court House - receiving more severe punishment than the escapee ... Top sheriff birched ... Attorney General goes schtum ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Dec022020

Burley Griffin's notebook

Ohh, that judgment ... ACT Law Society asks, "where are the reasons?" ... Judge scrambles out of retirement to deliver another door-stopper ... Profuse apologies for the loose ends ... Sexual assault by law lecturer means he's not fit and proper ... In London fresh findings about drunken sex and professional misconduct 

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Monday
Nov302020

Back to a brighter yesterday

Ticket for change sets about scrapping the changes ... Jabots in a tangle at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Email meltdowns ... Burning questions ... No nous for Nous ... Blandification of the bar ... "World class" barristerial biffo ... Peach Melba explains what went down 

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Tuesday
Nov242020

Graduating in the time of Covid

The exams are complete ... The degree finished ... But where's the riotous fun? ... A modest valedictory event, without dancing ... Graduation ceremony in doubt ... Preparing for a "man's world" with "Women in Law" ... Barely Legal's Anna Kretowicz blogs from Queensland  

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Friday
Nov202020

Time to woke-up

Mystery of the kiddie court tours ... School students' exposure to dangerous notions ... Trump-loving academic's batty predictions ... Magic Circle's fee spree ... Toast of the town ... Theodora's Goings On 

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Friday
Nov202020

Solicitors can do no wrong

Disciplinary apparatus found wanting … Law Society in Phillip Street goes down three times in one week … Lawyers off the hook at the Bureau de Spank … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Nov192020

Tasmanian affairs

Clarification on bestiality, Apple Isle style … A "specie" of buggery … Penetration essential … And, no opportunity for defence counsel to make submissions on sentencing … Finding of apprehended bias against Supreme Court judge … Janek Drevikovsky has news from The Map 

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