Sore bottoms on the bench ... Birchings for judgments that went askew ... Appeal reasons from higher up the food chain ... FCA judge finds that a commercial loss is really a bargain ... Trauma at the Tribunal ... Theodora reports ... Read more >>
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Lehrmann v Network Ten ... Judgment for sale ... Justice Lee's reasons in paperback ... More >>
Online incitements ... Riots in English cities fed by online misinformation about refugees ... Policing and prosecution policies ... Fast and furious processing of offenders ... Online Safety Act grapples with new challenges ... Increased policing of speech on tech platforms ... Hugh Vuillier reports from London ... Read more >>
Postcard from London ... Watching Starmer mince the sausages ... How to move a file from the inactive list ... Court's failed email notification system ...Sleep monitors want to measure the extent of lawyers' restfulness ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from London ... Read more >>
Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ...
Regrets ... The then Media Watch host and one of the country's most magnificent silks birched in the High Court for not sticking to the rules ... Scratchy Stu ... From Justinian's Archive, May 1997 ... Read more ...
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Miss Lumière • Sunday, May 28, 2023 Cold case opened - then shut ... Young Aboriginal girl goes missing from a bleak outback town ... Police indifference and brutality ... Miss Lumière reviews Ivan Sen's masterful new film Limbo
Film review Miss Lumière • Sunday, August 14, 2022 Sexual assault and the law ... Rape (alleged) by a member of chambers ... Suzie Miller's play brought to the screen ... Jodie Comer is chilling - and thrilling ... Scorching indictment of the law .... Miss Lumière at the National Theatre (Live)
Criminal law, Film review, Sexual offences Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Miss Lumière is back in the cinema ... The alienated life of Martin Bryant ... A strange inheritance ...Guns and cash ... The story leading up to the Port Arthur massacre
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 29, 2021 In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike
Film review, Streaming Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 8, 2021 Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view
Film review, Sexual offences Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The post WW11 tribunal that tried the Japanese leadership ... Inventing crimes after the event ... Eleven judges wrestle with the complexities over three years ... Egos muddled with legal principles ... Miss Lumière reviews the Netflix mini-series on Japanese war crimes
Film review, Mini-series, War crimes Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, April 30, 2021 The FBI's obsession with Strange Fruit ... Music from the devil ... War Against Drugs ... Reluctance to give up lynching ... Un-American activities ... All that jazz ... Hoover on the case ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
FBI, Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, April 6, 2021 The Cold War and its spies ... Getting military secrets out of the Soviet Union ... Cuban missile crisis ... Khrushchev unhinged ... Let's Twist Again ... How MI6 and the CIA betrayed their informant ... Benedict Cumberbatch, as the ordinary Greville Wynne, comes to the "rescue" ... Miss Lumière at the flicks
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, February 16, 2021 If you occupy the high ground, you control everything ... A white man's war-time notion ... Colonial invasion in all its savagery ... The King's law confronts justice for the dispossessed ... Miss Lumière at the cinema
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, January 14, 2021 Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation
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