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Redesigning the camel ... Sustained problems at the Circuit and Family Courts ... Handballing cases up and down the food chain ... Rev Christian Porter's unfortunate legacy ... Unwinding the duel kingdoms of Willy Alstergren CJ CJ ... What has happened to "Ginger" McGrath? ... From our Family Affairs Roundsman ... Read more >>

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Appeasement ... Craven backdowns galore … Creative Australia – how to avoid “divisive debates” … Grovels and concealments follow the “Undercover Jew” fiasco … Suppression orders protecting Lattouf terminators … No waves at the Yarts Ministry … Preselection jeopardy for pro-Palestinian pollie … Justice Lee dabbles in “sentient citizenship” … Semites and antisemitism ... Read on ... 

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Rome is burning ... Giorgia Meloni's right-wing populist regime threatens judicial independence ... Moves to strip constitutional independence of La Magistratura ... Judges on the ramparts ... The Osama Almasri affair ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

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A new Commonwealth Kings Counsel ... Andrew Buckland, chief general counsel at AGS, awarded the KC gong by the Labor government ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

London Calling ... Law n Order in Blighty ... King invites the King for State visit ... Grovels aplenty ... Magistrate over does the "send him down" ... Musos strike an angry chord about AI encroachment ... Law shops protect the billable hour ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files ... Read more >> 

"Creative Australia is an advocate for freedom of artistic expression and is not an adjudicator on the interpretation of art. However, the Board believes a prolonged and divisive debate about the 2026 selection outcome poses an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia's artistic community and could undermine our goal of bringing Australians together through art and creativity."

Statement from Creative Australia following its decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as the creative team to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale 2026, February 13, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Damien Carrick ... For 23 years Carrick has presented the Law Report on ABC Radio National ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests ... On The Couch ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

Pat's wobbly evidence in defamation case ... Remembering the great Pat O'Shane's defamation case against culture warrior Janet (The Planet) Albrechtsen ... Pat comes home at the trial and most of the damages on appeal ... When Fairfax defended Albrechtsen ... From Justinian's Archive, April 15, 2004 ... Read more >>


 

 

Tuesday
Sep032024

Letter from Blighty

Filling the pauses - magistrate's messaging addiction during hearings ... Algerian boxer (he/him) sues X for cyber-bullying - gender experts punch below the belt ... Judge slapped with misconduct finding over 16 month delay in costs ruling ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from London 

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Tuesday
Sep032024

A judge created fantasy

The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Sanctity of the monarch ... Procrustes inveighs 

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Wednesday
Aug282024

Roll call for silk

109 NSW barristers have their hands up for silken acknowledgement ... Bar's secret list for 2024 unmasked ... Stampede to exit the junior bar ... Finery ... Embroidery ... The annual Silk Bazaar ... Scoop 

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Wednesday
Aug212024

'Olo, 'olo, 'olo 

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

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

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

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

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

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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