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 proudly publishes some of the finest lawyers ever to get their fingers near a computer keyboard. This is part of Justinian's repository that comes out from behind the paywall.
Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife.
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about.
Comment - Untamed opinions.
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics.
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on.
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar.
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout.
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs.
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions.
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher.
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions.
We'd happily induct you into the blawging hall of fame if you wanted to unpack a few burning issues. Contact the Ed. for further and better particulars.
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Junior Junior • Friday, June 28, 2013 "Why are you here?" the judge asks ... Lessons from a run of losses ... Junior Junior is advised about the virtue of defeat
Junior bar Dr Criminale • Sunday, June 23, 2013 Law students and their sense of entitlement ... The daily horror of confronting the demands of undeserving yoof ... Dr Criminale teaches at one of our leading halls of learning and is on the front line of the battle
Academic life Peter Lyons • Friday, June 21, 2013 Obit ... Peter Lyons visited an ailing Michael Hodgman QC in a nursing home, where he gives an unusually short answer ... In the grip of emphysema ... One of Tasmania's more unpredictable lawyer-politicians ... "What has the amazement of the Australian citizen got to go with it?" asks Gummow J ... Hodgman RIP
Michael Hodgman Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh • Monday, June 10, 2013 As the latest snoop revelations show, the security apparatus knows no limits ... How Australia played a role in secret detention and extraordinary rendition ... Globalizing Terror ... The case of Khaled El-Masri ... The ECHR tells a harrowing story of prisoner abuse ... From Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh
Felicity Gerry • Thursday, June 6, 2013 UK criminal barrister Felicity Gerry in the Top End ... Meeting Les, witness number five at the Bradley Murdoch trial ... Picked-up by "ex-police officers with a mining interest" ... Spicy meat pies at the Barrow Creek Hotel and other Territory treats
Bradley Murdoch, Northern Territory Junior Junior • Wednesday, June 5, 2013 When do I get to fly business class? ... Is it true that as barristers' incomes grow, they lose touch with the early years of poverty? ... Why is that small licks of money are spent as though the good times never end? ... Junior Junior ponders these and other questions, as she prepares for an economy flight on China Air
Dr Criminale • Thursday, May 23, 2013 The trials and tribulations of law school lecturing ... Achievers, plodders and bottom dwellers ... University entry requirements lowered - a boon for bottom-dwellers ... Ten percent take up 25 percent of the time and effort ... Senior law lecturer Dr Criminale takes to his keyboard and blogs
Law faculties, Law students, Universities Laura Norna • Sunday, May 19, 2013
Updated on Friday, May 24, 2013 by
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New South Wales' new bail legislation ... Presumption against bail still there in all but name ... Juveniles get one extra chance to reapply ... In last 30 years the proportion of the prison population on remand has doubled ... Legislation designed to please the police ... Former magistrate Max Taylor reports
Bail, NSW Law Reform Commission Theodora • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Rolf Harris named in the mainstream media following his arrest ... Now lawyers and MPs want to restrict naming of people arrested, but not yet charged ... The Jimmy Savile affair and the spread of allegations ... "Everyone" knew, but no one did anything ... Where's the money? ... Investigation industry thriving ... Theodora on the case
Defamation, Jimmy Savile, Sexual abuse Junior Junior • Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Baby barristers are such a bargain, so why aren't they snaffled-up? ... Junior Junior says clients should get rid of over-priced panel firms and use in-house solicitors as the go-betweens ... Saves money, which could then be spent on the barrister
Billings, Fees, In-house solicitors Stephen Keim • Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Runaway hit ... Book about the war on drugs in the US and the criminalisation of large parts of the Afro-American population ... Supreme Court validates racial bias of the criminal justice system ... Blacks like crack cocaine, whites prefer powder cocaine ... Sentencing discrepancies ... US incarceration rate the highest in the world ... Book review by Stephen Keim
Criminal justice, Racism, US Supreme Court Dorothy Says ... • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Fellas want to get their hands on that huge file ... What's Gail got that's so magic? ... Apparently she's a "straight shooter" ... But then, there's a f**k-up ... Whose f**k-up? ... Dorothy explains
Billings, Schadenfreude, Team players, The Firm Junior Junior • Tuesday, February 26, 2013 The hidden role of pre-menstrual syndrome at the bar ... Man-flu seems a perfectly acceptable ground for non-appearance ... The role of the hot-water bottle ... Junior Junior on secret women's business
Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, February 25, 2013 Google v ACCC ... Advertisements are advertisements and Google's AdWords isn't responsible if they are misleading ... Challenge to make search engines more accountable, without destroying their openness and convenience ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski examine the case and the policy issues
Advertising, Google, High Court of Australia Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, February 18, 2013
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HSI v Kyodo ... Challenging the government to protect Australia's Antarctic whale sanctuary ... Four years of Federal Court argy-bargy to get an injunction against Japanese whalers ... ICJ and the legality of Japan's permits under whaling "research" program ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski look at the cases