Judicial shockers ... Latest from the trouble prone Queensland branch of the Federales ... Administrative law upsets ... Sandy Street overturned ... On the level in Canberra ... Missing aged care accountant ... Law shop managing director skewered ... Ginger Snatch reports from courtrooms around the nation ... Read more >>
Polly gets a cracker ... The Parrot falls from his bully pulpit … Performances … The end of the Wharf Revue … Bruce McClintock on stage at The Onion Club … Freaks on the loose in Washington ... Read on ...
It's Hitlerish ... Reelection of a charlatan ... Republicans take popular vote for the first time in 20 years ... Amnesia ... Trashing a democracy ... Trump and his team of troubled men ... Mainstream media wilts in the eye of the storm ... Depravity, greed and revenge are the new normal ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >>
The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Frosty Tom Hughes ... 1923-2024 ... More >>
A trial for France ... French teacher beheaded after showing caricatures of Mohammed to the class ... Young student's false claim ends in tragedy ... Misinformation takes off on social media ... Media storm ... Religion infiltrates public life ... Trials unfold ... Hugh Vuillier reports ... Read more >>
The great interceptor ... Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments ... Read more ...
Rosenblum v Foreman ... From Justinian's archive ... March 1995 ... When Rupert Rosenblum went to court over a missing house ... Memories of Carol Foreman and her backdated document ... Rocking the foundations of the admin of justice ... Read more ...
Justinian's archive
Deja Vu • Saturday, March 5, 2005 "Sir" Terence Lewis’ attack on his old legal team tossed out. Bent Queensland police chief loses action against his solicitors ... March 2005
Deja Vu • Friday, November 5, 2004 "You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of Not Guilty." ... Reprise of the Peter Cook skit of the Jeremy Thorpe trial ... Entirely a Matter for You ... Evan Whitton, from Justinian's archive November 5, 2004
Judges • Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Warfare on the High Court ... McHugh and Kirbs go hammer and tongs on argument about "indefinite detention" for aliens ... Boys. Boys. That’s quite enough ... From Justinian's archive, September 15, 2004 ... Ouch
Deja Vu • Thursday, August 5, 2004 Schmaltzy "love" letters ... David Flint and Alan Jones oozing admiration from every pore ... Cringeworthy correspondence that Flint failed to reveal when he was chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, later to inquire into Jones' role in the Cash for Comment scandal ... From Justinian's archive August 2004
Goings On ... • Monday, June 21, 2004 David Ipp's wonky wake-up call to anaesthetists ... Deputy registrar's deadweights ... Nettle and the Hollingworth case ... AG's historic library being dismembered ... Somosi’s imputations flop ... By appointment to the Viceroy of Tasmania ... (Spud) Murphy's bail application runs off at the mouth ... From Justinian's archive, June 2004
Deja Vu • Monday, May 17, 2004 Fruity Flint’s fascinating theory about Mabo ... Launch of Portraits on Yellow Paper ... Burnside’s beefy punch-bag replacement ... From Justinian's archive May 17, 2004 ... Plus Madge Marsden's health notes ... Nylons at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Theodora
David Flint, Ian Callinan, John Marsden, Roddy Meagher So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004
Bail, David Levine, Defamatorium, John Marsden, Paul de Jersey Deja Vu • Thursday, April 22, 2004 So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Inside Madge’s mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Dean Mildren “the idiot” ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004
Judges • Thursday, March 18, 2004 Roddy Meagher’s farewell speech emerges from a lengthy process of proof reading ... Cracks about "Twiggy" Spigelman and "Chilly" Gleeson ... Distressing thoughts about the superior qualities of leading NSW barristers ... From Justinian's archive, March 18, 2004
Roddy Meagher Deja Vu • Tuesday, February 17, 2004 John Cummins gets another five years of bankruptcy ... Supreme Court of Yarraside feeling the hot, sticky breath of Sydney ... Dubya's Capital "C" Conservative judicial nominees ... Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission gives Daphnis de Jersey short-shrift ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
Sir Terence O'Rort • Monday, February 16, 2004 Was he a client or wasn’t he? ... Court of Appeal breathed life into a Brisbane solicitor's action against Lord Eldon over barristerial advice about failed NCA proceedings ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
Deja Vu • Friday, February 13, 2004 It's Déjà Vu all over again ... Justinian discovers the full text of Dyson Heydon’s famous Quadrant speech ... Juiciest parts chopped from the published version ... Here are the bits where Dyce pokes his tongue out at his least favourite judges ... From Justinian's archive, February 2004
Dyson Heydon Deja Vu • Monday, December 15, 2003 Architects claim their copyright infringed by cake baked in the shape of the High Court ... Associate to Whitlam J (as he then was) created the cake and Federal Court judges helped consume it ... Implied freedom of political communication ... Remembering the great High Court cake copyright wheeze ... Correspondence between the parties
Copyright Act, High Court of Australia Deja Vu • Wednesday, November 26, 2003 Madge Marsden's 13 malignant nodes, all with names ... Victoria's silk vacuum ... Freehills in massive brawl over peat ... From Justinian's archive, November 2003
Court in the Act • Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Electoral fraud ... Forget the dishonest intent, see how the lunge for contract law saved Pauline ... Qld Court of Appeal missed the golden opportunity to finish Pauline Hanson's One Nation for good ... Instead, unpersuasive reasoning saved her and saddled the country with more poisonous nonsense ... Thanks Daphnis ... From Justinian's archive ... November 18, 2003
Bar Talk • Wednesday, October 1, 2003 Unwinding Gus Cummins’ 1987 wholesale transfer of assets sees a $1.6 million haul for the trustee of the former silk's bankrupt estate ... JC, QC, AJC ... Failure to lodge tax returns for 40 years ... From Justinian's archive, October 1, 2003
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 An all dancing, all singing judiciary, media savvy and bristling to be interviewed ... Judges cook-up bold plans to be nice to journalists ... What happened? ... Deja Vu ... From Justinian in 2003
Deja Vu • Monday, September 8, 2003 Honi Soir Qui Mal Y Pense ... Dyson Heydon on "taste", being "Australian", and the "mood" of the nation ... Transcript of Lady Di Fingleton trial reveals she is a bossy boots ... Freehills wanting its client to correct and withdraw ... Lodging tax returns is a matter of "integrity" ... Timely tax compliance by NSW barristers climbs from 56 to 97 percent ... From Justinian's archive, September 8, 2003
Theodora • Thursday, June 5, 2003 David Flint's correspondence hacked ... Kirbs keeps his money to himself ... More media grumps to NSW Court of Appeal ... Federal Court judges go feral over ALJ assault ... Hulls tearing at the exquisite finery of the law ... High Court travel "splurge" ... From Justinian's archive, June 5, 2003
Around The Firms • Thursday, May 15, 2003 Horrible lawyer stories from Yarraside ... A case of feuding partners ... More heat than light ... Costs of fight far outweigh amount in dispute ... From Justinian's treasure-trove of stories, May 15, 2003