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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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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 >>
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 >>
Goings On ..., Theodora • Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Covid-19 updates from Level 29 Aickin Chambers ... Freedoms should be restored ... Death rates confined to oldies ... Missives to Prof. Brett Sutton seeking projections ... "Cytokine storm" not wished for ... Beautiful charts and graphs ... And, appeal judges in Sydney smile on a solicitor the Law Society wanted binned ...Theodora on her rounds
City Desk • Monday, August 24, 2020 Robin and his merry men ... The Tamil takes up a senior position at the Rule of Law Institute bringing with him a fresh approach - e.g. people should be locked up even when they are acquitted ... "Nice legal arguments" are the enemies of the rule of law ... Exciting breakthrough: judges should allow confessions made under duress ... Theodora reports
On The Couch • Thursday, August 20, 2020 The nun who is on the battlements for Bernard Collaery and Witness K ... Relentless organiser, protester, and campaigner ... East Timor's long struggle and the all too late engagement of Australia ... The "Act of No Choice" in West Papua ... Progressive politics and the Catholic Church ... Eggs, carrots and leftovers ... Devisor of cunning schemes ... Sister Susan Connelly is on Justinian's Couch
City Desk, Polly Peck • Monday, August 17, 2020 Leading hacks at The Australian have waged war on Professor Jenny Hocking and her research into the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government by governor general Kerr ... The archived letters clearly confirm the Palace's involvement ... It is The Australian's version that is in need of repair ... Michael White dismantles the claims about Hocking's "conspiracy theory"
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, August 10, 2020 Trump's fresh rampage ... Taking the USA beyond proto-authoritarianism ... A chaotic post-election scenario ... Cheating might save the day ... Flouting the Supreme Court's rulings ... The odour of corruption ... Reichstag fires and the president's brown shirts ... Absentee voting and the postal system ... Our Man in Washington Roger Fitch reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, August 6, 2020 Belgium's criminal justice system up-close ... Role of judges, jurors, witnesses and counsel ... Jurors with discordant, flawed lives ... Final judgment ... Miss Lumière sees how continental law deals with murder most foul