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Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank ... Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... 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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Justinian Columnists

Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ... 

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Maintaining legal actions ... Remembering maintenance and champerty ... The Lehrmann mess ... From Geoffrey Gibson, Melbourne barrister (retired) ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

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 ... 


Justinian Featurettes

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 ... Read more ... 


Justinian's archive

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 ... 


 

 

Justinian's archive

Wednesday
Aug062008

The // universe with Evan Whitton

Lord Robbo on justice for Radovan ... Organised crims love libel law, because they invented it ... It's time Bob French spoke up about the law against muttering ... Questions for Robert Richter ... Rugby quiz ... From Justinian's archive, August 6, 2008

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Friday
May302008

High Court admonished

President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal delivers a clip on the ear to the "haughty and blinkered" High Court ... A memorable farewell speech from Keith Mason ... From Justinian's archive, May 30, 2008

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Monday
Dec312007

Speedy exit

Young Melbourne barrister struck off the roll a year after signing it … failure to come clean over essay collaboration with fellow student

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Thursday
Dec132007

Day of the Dandelion

Spigelman stars in crime thriller … Mrs Spigelman draws literary inspiration from the eastern bloc … "Role model" judicial appointments in NSW … Justinian’s Tubby Callinan on the lecture circuit … The prosecutor as passionate photographer ... From Justinian's archive, December 13, 2007

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Thursday
Dec132007

Jacobson, Allen, Knightley & Spigelman

Spigelman stars in crime thriller ... Mrs Spigelman draws literary inspiration from the eastern bloc ... "Role model" judicial appointments in NSW ... Tubby Callinan on the aged care lecture circuit ... From Justinian's bulging archive, December 2007 

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Wednesday
Nov212007

The fight for Wentworth

It's 2007 and the federal election that saw the Howard government swept from office is underway ... Polly Peck visits the seat of Wentworth, where the campaign is particularly fervid ... Maybe it's because too many lawyers are involved ... From Justinian's archive, November 21, 2007 

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Wednesday
Oct102007

Where has the dignity gone? 

Advertising for judges and the dignity of the bench ... Magistrates' status on the up-and-up ... Federal Court's Melbourne marketing blitz ... Privilege tussle over Sydney bar's Stephen Archer documents ... Grief sweeps VicBar over Faris' resignation ... From Justinian's archive, October 2007

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Wednesday
Aug292007

I.D.F. Callinan AC says farewell to the High Court

Ian Callinan unwraps his presents at the farewell dinner thrown in his honour by Janette Howard. In this special, exclusive edition of his secret diaries© he unpacks the menu, the guests and his jurisprudential philosophy. Plus, we’re privy to the latest chapter in his upcoming thriller, The Cannelloni Conspiracy – A Recipe for Murder

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Monday
Jul162007

Delirious news for lawyers and the hoi polloi

Evan Whitton ... The first step for the Academy of Law is to uncover why lawyers are doomed to be unloved ... A missing staple comes as a reminder that process trumps truth ... From Justinian's archive, July 16, 2007

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Friday
Jun082007

High rise dog fight

Sir Gerry Brennan at centre of high-rise dog fight ... Flare-up at bench v bar dinner in Sydney ... Corrigan accuses union lawyers of "conniving" to select patsy judge ... Turf warfare over the right to publicity ... Horror stories from Cowderyland ... June 8, 2007 

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Wednesday
Jun062007

McHugh enteres the Patrick Power affair 

Michael McHugh QC gave an opinion on the DPP's handling of the Patrick Power affair ... Power should not have been told about the discovery of child porn on his computer before the police were informed ... DPP Cowdery said the opinion was a "counsel of perfection" ... From Justinian's archive June 2007 

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Friday
Jun012007

Sex, drugs and death 

Peter Hayes QC died seven years ago in distressing circumstances ... Peter Faris and Isaac Brott were on hand to warn us about the dangers of lawyers taking too many powders ... From Justinian's archive ... June 1, 2007 

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Thursday
Jan112007

Spinning Clutz' internal memos

Parts of the embarrassing Clayton Utz documents on the Rolah McCabe tobacco case are now posted ... The question is, why haven’t Richard Travers and Glenn Eggleton been invited back to their old law shop as heroes? ... From our archive, January 11, 2007

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Friday
Dec152006

Forget Senior Counsel, let's try "Super Lawyer"

New Jersey tried to stamp-out out “self-aggrandising” titles such as “Super Lawyer”. Actually the “Super Lawyer” selection process was superior to those that are used here to appoint new Senior Counsel

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Wednesday
Nov152006

Lawyering Jonestown

There have been dreadful legal problems recently for book publishers and authors - He Who Must be Obeid, Evil in a Blue Hoodie and Sins of the Father ... However, Chris Masters' book Jonestown was unscathed by litigation ... Threats from Jones' lawyer and complex pre-publication advice saw the ABC lose its nerve, only to have the book picked up by Allen & Unwin ... From Justinian's archive, November 15, 2006 

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Friday
Aug112006

The Mensch

Marcus Einfeld is handling his troubles with the same panache he has managed all the annoying and inconsequential accusations thrown at him over the years ... If he has a tiny tendency to being a bit pleased with himself, you've got to remember he is a national living treasure ... From Justinian's archive, August 2006 

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Wednesday
Aug022006

More unmenschionable happenings 

The Mensch, the solicitor, the $500 a pop hooker and the documents … Tasmanian judge lost in tropics … Cunneen verdict from Bureau de Spank ... The file has vanished - handy new defence in misconduct cases ... From Justinian's massive archive of stories, August 2006 

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Friday
Jun302006

Are these people fit to run a casino?

Packer consigliere John Alexander orders TV news story attacking Kerry Stokes and then demands reinstatement of the journalist he favoured to produce the attack ... Boning ... Suppression ... Backstabbing ... Vendettas ... Favouritism ... Welcome to the media landscape ... From Justinian's archive, June 30, 2006

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Friday
May122006

Bonding at the bar

The problem of enforced conviviality at the NSW bar ... Judge Judy once again finds she’s not biased against Stephen Archer ... Martin Bryant's solicitor missing in action ... Recent sightings of legal luminaries ... Former CJ in cat fight ... From Justinian's archive, May 12, 2006 

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Tuesday
Apr112006

Tricks of the publishing trade

Da Mystery of the Da Vinci Code litigation ... Larry Adler Dinner disappoints ... A slice of history from the "Uglies" ... Queensland's fearful Bureau de Spank ... That was then ... From Justinian's archive, April 2006

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