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Around town ... Punctuation advice from Vic's bar ... Feds throw the book at library marriage ... Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation ... Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime ... Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil ... Hands up for silk in Aotearoa ... Theodora's latest rounds ... Read more ...

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Incensed ... Special laws for true believers up in smoke … Extreme unction … Cash splash for prejudice … The two-faced world of Janus Albrechtsen … Stokes, the new Murdoch … Tucker Down Under in relevance rescue mission ... Read on ... 

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Dark and Stormy times in the US of A ... The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington ... Read more ... 

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Maintaining legal actions ... Maintenance and champerty ... The Lehrmann mess ... From Geoffrey Gibson, Melbourne barrister (retd.) ... More >> 

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Letter from London ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees ... Read more ... 

"It was a commercial decision ... To suggest anything else would be inaccurate and disingenuous." 

Spokesman for Kerry Stokes explaining the reason for doubling the price of printing the Financial Review on Seven West presses in Perth ... Read more flatulence ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

Did Justice Lee get it wrong? ... More on the omnishambles ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points ... Read more ... 


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Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more ... 


 

 

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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Wednesday
Mar272024

Courtroom capers

Trump ... Looking for the cash bond ... Lenders likely to be stiffed ... Supreme Court bends over for Trump ... Novel arguments for immunity ... Idiocy has its appeal ... From Washington, Roger Fitch reports 

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