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Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle ... Rising bills in solicitor's uphappy wrestle with large law shop ... The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley ... Application "doomed to failure" ... Heresy ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more ...

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Pastoral care ... The money issue … Tiddlywinks young man … Private school goes public – courtesy of the ABC … Cranbrook’s latest expulsions … The Billionaires’ Bible … Fairy dust for unrest in Gaza … Ruth Bader Ginsburg spinning in her crypt … Fresh interpretations for the rule of law ... Read on ... 

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It's customary ... Dropping a line ... Fishing expeditions ... Strenuous judicial avoidance of a holistic approach towards Aboriginal culture and customary rights ... New Zealand carves a different approach towards the Maori customs ... Anthropologists form a queue ... Procrustes files ... Read more ... 

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Gageler CJ cuts the ribbon ... Austlii embarks on massive High Court digitisation ... Early unreported judgments ... Transcripts ... Submissions ... Motions ... The works ... Plus 37 seminal High Court cases ... Eight available in the first tranch ... More >>

 

Justinian's Bloggers

Letter from London ... Brits obsession with the Royals ... Staffers in the frame for attempted theft of Princess Kate's medical records ... Bitcoin liberated from false claims by Satoshi Nakamoto ... Struck off for inflated time records ... Rwanda - plain sailing ahead ... From our correspondent in Blighty, Floyd Alexander-Hunt ... Read more ... 

"Dr Emma J. Jones from the University of Sheffield in the UK was pleased to see that the dialogue had moved on from ways to ensure lawyers survived amidst problems with wellbeing. She noted that the focus had gone beyond that - to being about thriving and flourishing."

Message to the legal profession from the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner Fiona McLeay, following a Wellness for Law Forum, March 21, 2014 ... Read more flatulence ... 


Justinian Featurettes

Sofronoff scuppered ... A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland ... Read more ... 


Justinian's archive

The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more ... 


 

 

Justinian bloggers (blawg)


Justinian proudly publishes some of the finest lawyers ever to get their fingers near a computer keyboard. This is part of Justinian's repository that comes out from behind the paywall. 

Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife. 
Barely Legal
- Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about. 
Comment - Untamed opinions. 
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics. 
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on. 
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar. 
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout. 
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs. 
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions. 
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher. 
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions. 

We'd happily induct you into the blawging hall of fame if you wanted to unpack a few burning issues. Contact the Ed. for further and better particulars. 

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Monday
Jan122015

Gagging the lawyers

Queensland's Newman government sails into the election with its ideological agenda intact ... Community legal centres to lose funding if they speak out on government policy ... Throttling the voice of the vulnerable ... Stephen Keim and Alex McKean comment 

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Sunday
Jan112015

Best of the worst

2014's proudest moments for lawyers and the law ... The mesmerising performance of Bookshelves Brandis ... The inquisitorial system's manifold distractions ... Top End Lawn Order ... Defamatorium ... Ashby, Assange, Whitlam, ASIO, and more ... Theodora's wrap of the year  

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Thursday
Dec182014

Bring back the asylums

The Sydney hostage siege ramps-up the drum beat for more community protection ... History of violent sieges resulting in more power for securocrats ... The common law is not equipped to determine future criminal conduct ... Procrustes turns to the mental health system for a solution  

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Friday
Nov142014

Wimmin and Whitlam's legacy

Gough Whitlam had a profound impact on the rights of women ... His government was at the forefront of engaging women in the workforce ... There's still a long way to go, says Queensland barrister Kylie Hillard 

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Tuesday
Oct212014

Queensland's women problem

Updated on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Registered CommenterJustinian

Brisbane barrister Kylie Hillard argues that the lack of female judicial appointments in Queensland is damaging confidence in the courts ... Disappearing women ... Warnings from Michael McHugh ignored ... Overwhelmingly white and male gives rise to perceptions of injustice 

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Monday
Sep152014

A matter of principle

The debate about the appointment of Qld CJ Tim Carmody ... Appointing a lesser candidate raises the concern that the choice was all about political favours ... Judicial independence skewered ... Unseemly spectacle ... Lapdog routine from local newspaper ... Stephen Keim and Alex McKean examine the debating tricks and bald assertions 

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Friday
Sep122014

Procrustes sidles-up to the Slovenes

Travel News ... Procrustes visits Ljubljana and gives praise to the brave Slovenes ... Then to Siena and murals representing the effects of good government on the city and countryside ... Medieval message about justice 

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Wednesday
Aug202014

Aye - Proccy does the Isles

Procrustes in sleeting Scotland ... Picking up the vibe of Tony Abbott's contribution to the Scottish independence debate ... In England, our very own Geoffrey Roberson weighs into the police raid on Cliff Richard's Berkshire digs 

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Thursday
Jul032014

Royal news

Exclusive ... Penny Makepiece, freelance Royal reporter, with details on Tim Carmody's swearing-in ... Protocol issues confront the installation of a commoner to the coveted top spot ... Concerns about crowd control have forced the coronation to be held at the Registry Office 

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Friday
Jun272014

"Errors" needs more rest before he's fit to play

Flanas selected as strong all-rounder ... Appointed to help the team carry Errors Carmody around the QE11 Cauldron ... Latest sports news from Erik Jekyll 

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Thursday
Jun262014

Carmody concussed

Sports News ... Medicos who took Lions legend J. Brown off the paddock are now examining Timbo Carmody ... It has been a brutal season ... The risk of playing a concussed Carmody ... Is Can Do as smart as Joh? ... Sports editor Erik Jekyll reports 

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Tuesday
Jun242014

Ticket clipping

The threat to the Queensland bar's power to issue tickets ... Did Bleijie give a nod or wink to this threat? ... The Fiji option looms ... Carmody fallout ... From Queensland barrister Alex McKean 

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Thursday
Jun052014

You ... in the hoodie

Law students required to do a survey to rate the performance of Dr Criminale ... Last class before the exams ... Quietness descends ... Marking procedure for borderline students 

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Wednesday
Jun042014

Partners and grads - a tale of two firms

Law grads adjusting to life in the law ... Cultural misfits ... Learning to conform to law firm stereotypes ... Barely Legal discovers the Social Bermuda Triangle ... I spent Saturday at Bunnings ... How was your game of golf? 

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Sunday
May112014

Barbarism and boats

History's judgment will be to vindicate our treatment of boat people ... IQ2 debate on May 6 ... Sydney Recital Hall packed to the beams ... For the proposition Philip Ruddock and Tom Switzer ... Against, Carina Hoang and Richard Ackland ... Simon Longstaff in the chair ... Here's the case put by Justinian's editor 

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