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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
Jan192021

Darwinian legacy

Survival of the fittest ...Alistair Wyvill cleared ... Eight year toxic Top End drama draws to a close ... Disciplinary Tribunal squelches NT Supreme Court judge and Stella Maris commissioner ... Pro Bono termination ... Procedural unfairness ... No finding of ulterior strategy ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Thursday
Jan142021

Murder at sea

Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation 

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Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports 

Sunday
Jan102021

Madcap election litigation spree

Republican lawyers wreaking damage on the legal profession and rule of law ... President Trump and the violation of federal laws on electoral interference and extortion ... Late impeachment in the wind ... Rioters seeking martyrdom ... Whither the republic? ... Roger Fitch reports from a wounded Washington  

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Tuesday
Jan052021

Slip, slop, slap

Tasmanian brief and the "ethnically" charged threat to international students ... Threat withdrawn ... Multiple texts at strange hours demanding payment of $650 ... You can't take Ipswich out of the man ... 5G conspiracies ... The former MP's "distinguished" political career saved his bacon ... Unprofessional conduct ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Dec242020

Law actually

COVID fallout ... Step-by-step ... State-by-state ... Anna Kretowicz takes us through a year of gyrations, fashions and fear of missing out ... Pork pies from the pizza shop ... Scotty's moment in the sun ... Lockdowns ... Goodbye section 92 ... 'Straya, we love you 

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Wednesday
Dec232020

Close to you

Border commissar Mark McGowan ... The politics of WA's secessionist fantasies ... Section 92 in play ... Waiting for Palmer ... Conservative ideas to tame the ABC ... In the car with the Carpenters ... Procrustes tunes into dead white males

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Not him too ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape in New York's Sofitel ... Victim monstered by lawyers ... Elaborate conspiracy theories ... The same old story ... Director General of the IMF blows-up a beautiful political future ... Miss Lumière on a peculiar French penchant 

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Tale of two cities

Nicola Gobbo and the wreckage in her wake ... Corruption of the criminal justice system not confined to Victoria ... Tom Kelly traces the recent history of graft and corruption that flowered in New South Wales ... Police, lawyers and crims in cahoots ... Evolutionary differences - Sydney and Melbourne ... Different categories of criminal defence lawyers ... The role of public lawyers in NSW 

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