Sofronoff stripped bare ... Deceit ... Betrayal ... Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information "tryst" ... Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann ... Derangement syndrome ... Sofronoff's "serious corruption" ... Devastation among devoted Banana Benders ... Read more >>
Bag lady ... Don't call the results until the fat lady sings … Senator's criminal record hidden from view … Inspiration from our B-grade business leaders … Forget the sexual harassment, Dicey Heydon is coming out of the deep freeze ... Read on >>
Capital crimes ... Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon ... Musk and his techie vandals ... The shredder going full blast at the FBI ... Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago ... Cabinet clown show ... White supremacy unleashed ... Consumer protection prosecutions dropped ... Lawyers and law firms threatened ... Roger Fitch from Washington ... Read more >>
ACT Shadow Attorney General presses for Sofronoff to refund his fees for the Drumgold inquiry ... Question on notice ... More >>
Letter from London ... Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >>
The dark art of sham litigation ... Fraudulent litigation ... Bodgy debts to circumvent real creditors ... Defamation actions to wash money ... Moldovan courts to the rescue of Russian gangsters ... Italian divorces in Maidenhead ... From Justinian's Archive, January 2016 ... Read more >>
Justinian's archive
Deja Vu • Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Scene beside the lake ... Michael Kirby bids adieu to the Last Chance Saloon ... A solemn occasion filled with the great and the good ... Taxi driver's failure to lament ... From Justinian's Archive, February 2, 2009
High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby Deja Vu • Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Defrocked barrister faced "iciness" at the ADT ... Double helpings of bias ... Tribunal can't help making adverse decisions about the former brief ... Fair minded citizens on the Emu Plains omnibus ... From Justinian's Archive, November 11, 2004
Deja Vu • Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Defamatorium ... The libel scene back then ... Marsden to the rescue ... All fires are suspicious, until they're not ... Jury breakthrough on the defamatory meaning of "homosexual" ... From Justinian's Archive, November 11, 2003
Defamatorium Deja Vu • Thursday, June 8, 2023 It's 1959, or maybe 1960 ... Commem Day at the University of Sydney ... History ... A Cold War celebration ... Dyson Heydon dressed as a Russian babushka ... Why exactly, we're not sure ... Students up to something ... From Justinian's Photo Archive
Dyson Heydon Deja Vu • Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002
Deja Vu • Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Troubling allegations from former President of the NSW Law Society ... Letter to the Judicial Commission ... No magic button for gays ... Explaining gay issues to Ernie Schmatt, in detail ... From Justinian's Archive, March 1, 2001
Deja Vu • Friday, March 24, 2023 Worm reviews Ian Callinan's searing spellbinder The Coroner's Conscience ... Love, torment and death ... A tragic femme fatale ... A spicy journalist ... A bishop ... A coroner ... Something for everyone ... From Justinian's Archive, December 3, 1999
Ian Callinan Deja Vu • Friday, March 17, 2023 Worm reviews an alarming ABC documentary on Alec and Lorraine Shand's married life ... The top end silk looking for affaction and support ... Mrs Shand should stop complaining ... Making a mess of priorities ... Counselling does wonders ... Or does it? ... From Justinian's Archive, October 2000
Alec Shand Deja Vu • Thursday, March 9, 2023 Remembering John Marsden's defamation case against Channel Seven ... Claim that the former president of the NSW Law Society had sex with under-age boys ... Inviting journalists to reveal identity of witness whose name had been suppressed ... From Justinian's Archive, April 20, 2000
Contempt, Defamatorium, John Marsden Deja Vu • Friday, December 16, 2022 Book review ... Portraits on Yellow Paper by P.R. Meagher and Simon Fieldhouse reviewed by Michael Kirby ... The reviewer sprinkles caustic comments about former appeal justice's character assassinations ... From the archives ... April 7, 2004
Michael Kirby, Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Did DPP Nick Cowdery mislead the attorney general? ... Prisoner whose conviction had been quashed seeks ex gratia payment ... Opposed by the DPP ... After more than eight years the NSW Court of Appeal decides, sort of ... Molomby vanquished ... From Justinian's Archive ... December 4, 2003
Deja Vu • Thursday, November 24, 2022 Contempt verdict over Plain English outburst ... Ruddster's "P" for the High Court ... Activist hack's dire warning on judicial appointments ... The living' is easy for Tubby Callinan ... Toad Hall comes to Mallesons ... Adding up the bills in the big, fat Channel Seven litigation ... Theodora reports ... From Justinian's Archive, January 16, 2008
Goings on ... What was life like in 2000 ... Theodora ... Déjà Vu ... From Justinian's archive, December 15, 2000 ... John Marsden ... SCs in Victoria ... NT's silk selection process ... Self regulation is not the same as regulation ... Corrs blimey ... Harts & Flowers
Deja Vu • Thursday, May 26, 2022 Slices from Justinian's past ... There's an eerie familiarity to old news ... Sharing tidings from the hard copy era ... From Justinian's archive ... Stories from March 1988 and December 1994
NSW politics, Stuart Littlemore Deja Vu • Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Alec Shand v Jackson McDonald ... Excessive and unreasonable fees ... Law firm refuses to cough-up for Laurie Connell defence ... Charging for time not worked ... Unprepared ... Scandalous, even for a second-hand car dealer ... Gouging the rich ... Stephen Archer on hand ... From Justinian's archive, September 1999
Barristers' fees Deja Vu • Thursday, August 12, 2010 From Justinian's archive ... It's August 12, 2010, nine days before the federal election ... Soapy Brandis is being hosted at Beppis by a bevvy of Sydney silks ... Law 'n' Justice policies thin on the ground ... Strange issues emerge in the campaign for Wentworth ... Here we go again ... Insight into the barrenness of the upcoming 2013 poll
George Brandis, Law and justice, Politics, Wentworth Deja Vu • Thursday, August 5, 2010 Littlemore gets saucy … VicAppeals unhappy without two counsel … Languid Family Court judge hits herself in the face ... From Justinian February 1999
Slow judge, Two counsel rule Deja Vu • Tuesday, August 3, 2010 The tree of man … Ancient fight over fig tree on Eldons’ estate not over yet … Further appeals to get unimproved land value of Ascot spread reduced to almost zero … Stellar court room showing by Eldon patriarch … Sir Terence O’Rort reports
Anthony Morris Deja Vu • Friday, July 16, 2010 Election advice – ignore the War Party ... Abe Saffron – libel terrorist ... Rugby notes ... Conniptions at Uni of Syd over Challis chair and law school merger ... Evan Whitton at large ... From Justinian's archive, July 16, 2010
Deja Vu • Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Beguiling pastiche of barristerial posturing ... The importance of looking the part ... The Velvet Salamander transforms into the Silver Canetoad ... James Hutton reviews Bullstrode Whitelocke’s essential text for advocates ... From Justinian's archive, July 13, 2010
