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Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>

 

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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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      Greg Barns SC ... The Segal report on combatting antisemitism is Trumpian ... It should be ignored
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      Another report from Brian Leveson ... The way judge and jury trials are organised is unsustainable ... If allowed to continue criminal justice in Britain will collapse
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      A special report on lawyers' assessments on whether to build or buy AI tools
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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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      Israel's war in Gaza has undermined freedom of speech and the international rule of law
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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Aug212024

'Olo, 'olo, 'olo 

• DateWednesday, August 21, 2024

Senior Member of the AAT's broadside against respected migration lawyers ... Accusations of dishonesty and lacking integrity ... Claim that lawyers are minting money from worthless case ... Complaints lodged ... Appeal to come ... Dismay ripples through the trade 

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Friday
Aug092024

Latest intrigues

, • DateFriday, August 9, 2024

Banana Benders and the politics of judicial selection ... Tas Bar votes against Royal gongs ... Vic Bar's new talk shop ... International law - the ABA ducks the hard questions ... Theodora's Goings On ...  

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Thursday
Aug082024

Judges on the ropes

• DateThursday, August 8, 2024

Hellish judgment from the Circuit Court ... Riparian water rights ... Wars of the 21st century ... Litigants and dangerous sexual offender left in limbo by WA Supremes ... From our Courtside Correspondent 

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Tuesday
Aug062024

Letter from London

• DateTuesday, August 6, 2024

Swearing during ethics exam likely to bring the profession into disrepute ... Rwanda on ice ... Magistrate ticked off for butting into animal cruelty discourse ... Charles tells parliament about a battery of 40 Bills and the flowering of economic growth ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes from the Old Dart 

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Monday
Aug052024

Gone fishing

• DateMonday, August 5, 2024

Native Title Act ... Fishing rights ... Abalone principally reserved for the Chinese market ... State fishing laws breached by Indigenous fishers ... NSW and South Australian appeal courts differ on the "legal burden" of defendants and their native title qualifications ... Comity ... Something for the Saloon to resolve ... Procrustes, the fisherman's friend, reports 

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Friday
Aug022024

Hopelessness

• DateFriday, August 2, 2024

Lawyer sued over waste of time and money for unsuccessful defence ... Obligation to warn ... Failure to read documents - unwise, but not negligent ... Client disabused of false expectations ... Lawyer in the clear ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Wednesday
Jul312024

Tottling into court

• DateWednesday, July 31, 2024

Sen. Reynolds's (Lib. WA) defamation case ... Opening shots ... Western Australia, land of the stolen GST and big libel awards ... Trial judge Paul Tottle ... What's next for Brittany Higgins ... Research by Stephen Murray 

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Tuesday
Jul302024

Trump v US

• DateTuesday, July 30, 2024

Judge Aileen Cannon ... No more special prosecutors ... Rogue judges at the highest level ... Presidential immunity decision worse than anticipated ... A dreadful partisan court ... Milwaukee convention ... Vance has no conviction - unlike his running mate ... Roger Fitch files from Washington  

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Friday
Jul262024

Senator sues staffer raped on her couch

• DateFriday, July 26, 2024

Reynolds v Higgins ... Protective trust ... Implied Harman undertakings insufficient to stop plaintiff's leaks to the media ... Patsy "journalists" engaged in harassment of the defendant ... Strong defence pleadings ... NACC and Integrity Commission investigation into Sofronoff leaks ... Sandy Groper reports from Perth 

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