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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 >> 

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Smoke and mirrors ... Spiritual notes … Bishop fends off claim for damages from victim of priestly abuse … How does this work? … Victoria protects politician with DV offences … An oppressive no-publication regime … Celebrity judge battles antisemitism from the gala dinner circuit ... Read on ... 

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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 >> 

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Change of guard at the High Court ... Richard Glenn appointed CEO and Executive Director of the Court ... The same Richard Glenn who as Commonwealth Ombudsman was birched over mishandling a report into the legality of Robodebt ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0 ... Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct ... Read more >> 

"Today is about Dad's wishes and confirming all of our support for him and for his wishes. It shouldn't be difficult or controversial. Love you, Lachlan."   

Lachlan Murdoch's text message to his sister Elisabeth on the eve of a special meeting to discuss altering the family trust so that Lachlan would run and control News Corp and Fox News ... Quoted in the opinion of the Nevada Probate Commissioner who ruled against changing the terms of the trust ... The New York Times, December 9, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


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

Litigation's artful delays ... From Justinian's archive ... April 22, 2014 ... Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case  ... Read more ... 


 

 

Wednesday
Apr242024

Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank

Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Friday
Apr192024

Judges on the tear

Priceless ... District Court chief judge takes a bow on the way out ... Leading lights of the law clamouring for bottles of Chateau d' Price ... Justice David Hammerschlag goes to the movies ... New release out now ... Theodora does the rounds 

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Thursday
Apr182024

Plus ça change

Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files 

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Thursday
Apr182024

An omnibus of quotes

Justice Lee and his Thesaurus ... Referencing the references ... Context and history ... The underlying warp and weft ... Words and meaning ... Byways of language ... Associate of judges Miss Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Apr122024

Merits review

AAT member's unzipped opinions ... Conservative elbows flailing in all directions ... Unrestrained by convention ... Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar ... Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs ... Fascination with gilded embroidery ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Apr112024

Celebrations at the Lubyanka

NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges 

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Wednesday
Apr102024

News from the Rialto

A veteran litigant burning through solicitors ... Sydney barrister trading without a ticket ... A string of criminal accusations against the Victorian Supreme Court ... Latest in lamentable of legal follies and professional foibles ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Thursday
Apr042024

The greatest disaster since Oscar Wilde

Unknown unknowns ... Known unknowns ... Where to next for Brucie Boy? ... Media mayhem ... Witness intimidation ... Hacks hacking at each other ... Harriet Harman and the world of implied undertakings ... From Ginger Snatch in the front row 

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Tuesday
Apr022024

Algorithmic injustices

Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice 

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