Top
Search
This area does not yet contain any content.
Justinian News

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 >> 

Politics Media Law Society


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 ... 

This area does not yet contain any content.
Free Newsletter
Justinian Columnists

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 >> 

Blow the whistle

 

News snips ...

The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Frosty Tom Hughes ... 1923-2024 ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"Over many years, certain journalists employed by Nine (formerly Fairfax) newspapers have been resentful of our client’s prominence as a commentator on many political and cultural issues, and the malicious and concocted allegations giving rise to the imputations constitute a concerted attempt to destroy our client’s reputation."  

Following the Sydney Morning Herald's exposure ... Mark O'Brien, Alan Jones' solicitor, December 12, 2023  ... Read more flatulence ... 

Featurettes
Justinian Featurettes

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 ... 

Justinian's archive

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 featurettes

There's another world beyond law and lawyering ... and here you can find it: reviews, wine notes, interviews, and unpacking the human condition.  

Critics' Corner: reviews of books, films and TV by Worm, I. Box and Miss Lumière.
Déjà Vu: marvellous slices of history from Justinian's bulging archive.
I Once Met ... Prominent and unusual people encourtered by our readers and contributors. 
JustyFlix: our film crew covers the most glittering events on the calendar. 
On the Couch: where notable notables bear their souls. 
Wendler on Wine: spectacular wine reviews, gargling and spitting from barrister Gabriel Wendler.  


All our featurettes have escaped from inside the paywall.  

 

Friday
Jun072013

Gill Phillips

• DateFriday, June 7, 2013

Gill Phillips is The Guardian's top in-house lawyer in London ... She's been in Australia for the past fortnight sussing out the local legal scene and drawing up long and short lists of external media law firms that might assist the new Australian edition of The Guardian ... We're fearlessly interrogating this lawyer who couldn't be an historian while she's recumbent on Justinian's couch 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged , ,
Tuesday
May282013

I'm just wild about Harry

• DateTuesday, May 28, 2013

The punchy suburbs of Adelaide in the 1970s ... Barrister Richard Beasley's new novel Me and Rory Macbeath evokes shades of the Violet Roberts case ... Boys into men ... Domestic violence, bullying and the defence of provocation ... Reviewed by Linda Funnell 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged , , ,
Wednesday
May082013

Retrospective: Te Muna Road Pinot

• DateWednesday, May 8, 2013

The frustrations of a pinot drinker ... With so many clones of the pinot vine, performance varies greatly ... "Fickle and troublesome" ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler finds some complex and brooding pinots among Craggy Range's Te Muna Road selection ... Taste-up at Chiswick Gardens 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged ,
Sunday
Mar172013

Mark Dreyfus

• DateSunday, March 17, 2013

Mark Dreyfus talks films, books and music ... The weather nut confides the contents of his refigerator and other important lifestyle details ... The Commonwealth Attorney General is lured onto Justinian's couch 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged ,
Monday
Feb252013

Wendler in Bordeaux

• DateMonday, February 25, 2013

Our wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler makes a pilgramage to Cheval Blanc, one of the world's great wineries ... Classification crisis and litigation ... Modernisation under Bernard Arnault ... 2006 drinking well 

Click to read more ...

Comment1 Comment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged ,
Wednesday
Jan162013

Felicity Gerry

• DateWednesday, January 16, 2013

With sex crimes so much in the news it's felicitous that London barrister Felicity Gerry has, for the time being, fetched-up in Darwin ... The co-author of The Sexual Offences Handbook has some thoughts about the McClellan Royal Commission, and what makes for an effective hangover cure 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged ,
Sunday
Jan062013

The Waterlow killings 

• DateSunday, January 6, 2013

Tom Kelly reviews The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy by Canberra lawyer Pamela Burton ... Falling through the cracks ... Anthony Waterlow and the fatal stabbing of his father and sister 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
Tuesday
Dec182012

Halliday's 15,000 bottles

• DateTuesday, December 18, 2012

Holiday reading for the wine lover (and drinker) ... Wine correspondent G.D. Wendler gets his nose into James Halliday's autobiography A Life in Wine ... A great journey from Clayton Utz to viticultirist, vigneron and vintner 

Click to read more ...

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged ,
Wednesday
Dec052012

Cameron tells editors - "the clock is ticking"

• DateWednesday, December 5, 2012

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged
Tuesday
Dec042012

Deputy PM supports Leveson

• DateTuesday, December 4, 2012

CommentComment • • Print ArticlePrint
tagged
Page 1 ... 21 22 23 24 25 ... 30 Next 10 Entries »