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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 >> 

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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
Oct082020

Unjust, slow and expensive

Law Society of NSW lashed by Court of Appeal ... Failure to ensure just, quick and cheap litigation ... Another jurisdictional calamity ... Earlier decision not brought to the attention of NCAT ... Requirement for model litigant ... Application for suppression order rejected ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Oct062020

Trumplandia

The Reichstag is burning ... Delegitimising an election ... Covid-ridden presidential candidate ... Trump's debts pose security problems ... Stacking the Supreme Court ... An unhinged assault on the Affordable Care Act ... Judicial showdown looms ... Latest report from Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Friday
Oct022020

Masterful Sanderson

Requiem for a company ...  Why can't more judgments be written like this? ... Short, biting and funny ... The languid tone of Master Craig Sanderson ... All hail Neville Owen ... What will great swathes of the bar do now that Bell Group (UK) Holding is dead? ... WA Supremes burial list ... Judgment in full 

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Thursday
Oct012020

Glue sticks

Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, et al, eat their words as they scramble to replace RBG ... Voters cast aside ... Ungluing the institutions of government ... Border wars in Oz and the meaning of s.92 ... Law making by ministerial fiat ... Old buffers come to the party ... Procrustes opines 

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Monday
Sep282020

Silken wannabes

At last ... The steel box at the bottom of the sea has been burst open and the names of the 2020 NSW silk applicants have floated to the surface, where they bob around waiting for the sharks ... Here they are ... Old favourites aplenty ... Bar's difficulty with transparency ... Silk purse ... Sow's ear 

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Friday
Sep252020

Great footnotes in the law

Prominent silk's upward pressure on unfair dismissal costs for clients ... Repeat offender reenters Queensland potty-mouth lawyer stakes ... Human rights, invasion of privacy, hygiene and the technicolour yawn ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Sep232020

Witch Hunt

Questioning a dodgy invoice ... Corruption unravelled at the heart of Norwegian politics, law and the media ... Miss Lumière watches and reviews the eight part SBS series Heksejakt (Witch Hunt) ... Inspired by events in the real world ... Whistleblowing at its most courageous   

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Monday
Sep212020

Procrustes goes Pankhurst

Women's freedom ... The battles to change the law ... The vote ... The right to be elected ... Different histories in Australia and Britain ... Statues and celebration ... Procrustes reviews two books on pioneer women ... Plus, property rights and the productive value of koalas ... Leaf eaters as part of the commons  

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Tuesday
Sep152020

A radiant glow

Unhelpful and unattractive display of appellant's anus to Victoria appeal judges ... Regrettable submission ... Appeal denied ... And, country lawyer keeps the phone on the hook ... Unanswered correspondence ... Unattended court appointments ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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