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      Fresh filing by prosecutors in the election fraud case ... New evidence ... Trump: "It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell"
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      Uber-right Vic barrister Lana Collaris on her high horse, again ... Wants to scrap acknowledgement of traditional owners at Bar Council meetings ... "Implicit ceding of sovereignty"
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      Legislation to reform the US Supreme Court ... Increase size from nine to 15 judges over 12 years ... And require judges to disclose how they vote in each case ... Too much hiding behind per curiam
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      Top five "powerbrokers" in the law ... Lee J is on both the AFR's law and culture powerbrokers lists
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      Barristers backlash against Bar Standards Board imposing rules for the advancement of "equity, diversity, and inclusion"
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Election muddling ... Mounting frenzy ... Democrats produce a Black Swan moment ... Trump's own goals ... Australia's most toxic export ... Murdoch - the man who gave us Trump ... Plans for a new "steal" campaign ... Republican judges  meddling in the election ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >> 

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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 >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent." 

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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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 ... 

Justinian's archive

Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... From Justinian's Archive, March 6, 2003 ... Read more ... 

 

 

Monday
Feb122024

From the bar table

• DateMonday, February 12, 2024

Yelling counsel ... Heckling ... Pointing and shouting ... Minister goes off piste as a model litigant ... Conduct unbecoming ... From our courts roundsperson, Ginger Snatch  

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Friday
Feb022024

Cossack in orbit with Planet

• DateFriday, February 2, 2024

Walter Sofronoff and Janet Albrechtsen ... Lehrmann trial investigation ... An alluring coupling ... Sensitive information at play ... Feeding select reptiles ... Claims of prejudice and bias infecting the report ... Where's Brucie's house? ... Comment 

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Thursday
Feb012024

The slow lane - no overtaking

• DateThursday, February 1, 2024

End of year deliveries ... Delayed judgments under the tree ... Records broken ... Trouble with time ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jan312024

Dodging bullets

• DateWednesday, January 31, 2024

Idi Amin and Roger Rogerson - brothers-in-law ... Procrustes draws an analogy ... Cultivating psychopaths and ignoring the consequences ... How Rogerson spun stories to gullible hacks ... The killer cop with a lisp 

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Tuesday
Jan302024

A not so dry January

• DateTuesday, January 30, 2024

Floyd Alexander-Hunt's Letter from London ... The lawyer-juror who searched the internet for answers ... 15-months is seen as a serious delay for judgment delivery ... Large-scale miscarriage of justice in fake fraud allegations ... The delivery driver who acted as an agent for panel beaters 

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Monday
Jan292024

The Disunited States of America

• DateMonday, January 29, 2024

The cowboys of Texas ... Asserting control over immigration ... Operation Lone Star ... Confederate theory of secession is alive and kicking ... Usurping federal powers ... Trump judges to the rescue ... Wild defence claims in election conspiracy case ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Monday
Jan082024

Wrap of the Lehrmann defamation trial

, • DateMonday, January 8, 2024

Written closing submissions in Lehrmann defamation proceedings ... Claim of "confirmation bias" by Channel 10 ... Applicant and respondent both said to be dishonest ... Lehrmann wants substantial damages, even sexual intercourse is established ... Lehrmann's denials amount to "utterly wicked" conduct ... From Stephen Murray, Courts Editor for the Gazette of Law & Journalism 

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Friday
Dec222023

2023 - Lest We Forget

• DateFriday, December 22, 2023

A flood of unhappy memories ... A Voiceless Nation ... Corruption triage ... Judges in the slow lane ... Defamatorium ... Saloon refurbishment ... Tribunal upgrade ... Stinging Nettle v The Judd ... Quotes chiseled in stone ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Dec182023

Grant Donaldson SC

• DateMonday, December 18, 2023

High profile Sand Groper from the WA bar n' grill is On the Couch ... Films, music, books ... Cases and crimes ... Preventative detention in migration cases ... Closed courts ... Eyes shut yet still awake 

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