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      Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe says the Supreme Court's great gift to Trump is DELAY ... Voters deprived in information before the November elecion
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      God save us from this dishonourable court ... An egregious, unconscionable ruling on presidential immunity
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      NSW District Court judge makes a formal complaint to the OLSC about DPP Sally Dowling ... Witnesses required to present their phones and passwords in criminal trials
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      Reynolds v Higgins ... Defamation claim ... Senator Reynolds' tear stained statement of claim
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      Costly tax advice from Brisbane brief ... Eye popping $50,000 a day
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It's too late for the thylacine ... Procrustes closely analyses recent Justinian reports ... The Ippster and Stella Liebeck ... Tort law reform that went beyond the Pale ... In Tassie, no one is allowed to speak for the forests ... Standing up against State rule of the trees ... Where's Syd Shea when you need him? ... Read more ... 

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Courtroom capers ... Federal Court's digital hiccups ... Principal Registrar in home run ... Pronunciation requirements for names and pre-nominate ... Elocution audit ... Common law shuffle in New South Wales ... Vicki Mole reports ... Read more ... 

"I think it's madness to change it. If you walked into a McDonald's hamburger restaurant and they started serving you seafood, you'd be very confused if you were a customer."

Newington College old boy Peter Thomas arguing against the school admitting female students ... Reported in Guardian Australia, June 21, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

The election season ... The case for compulsory voting ... Pity the Brits, French and Americans where politicians have to "get out the vote" ... Nathan Twibill on the advantages of the "median voter" strategy ... Vote early, vote often ... Read more ... 

Justinian's archive

The life, loves, triumphs and disappointments of Tom Hughes KC ... Choice cuts from Ian Hancock's biography of Tom Hughes, A Cab on the Rank ... A painful move from 11 Selborne ... Skyrocketing fees ... Great cases ... Lionel Murphy - "not an easy client" ... Diary observations of judges, barristers and bar etiquette ... From Justinian's Archive, August 11, 2016 ... Read more ... 

 

 

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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Friday
Dec152023

Big week with the zombies

• DateFriday, December 15, 2023

High Court and UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration detainees ... Fear and loathing ... Remembering Gerry Hand ... Parliament's pre-Christmas meltdown ... Judiciary to sprinkle magic water over re-incarcerations ... Procrustes on the creeping encroachment of the State  

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Thursday
Dec142023

AI and its hallucinations

• DateThursday, December 14, 2023

Generative AI is particularly counterproductive for the legal profession ... Rubbish in ... Rubbish out ... Mistakes and confirmation bias ... Precision and consistency under assault ... Veronica Lenard reports 

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