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 ... Read more ...
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 ...
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 ... Read more ...
Gazette of Law & Journalism goes deeper into Justice Lee's findings on unreasonable journalism, journalists, and qualified privilege ... More >>
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 ... Read more ...
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 ...
Hoot ... Hoot ... No win, lots of fees – remembering Copper 7 … Conflicts and compromises ... Law and Social Work get cognate at U.Syd … Judge Felicity – feisty telly star … Wendler’s marmalade – by appointment ... From Justinian's Archive, July 30, 2010 ... Read more ...
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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Dorothy Says ... • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Fellas want to get their hands on that huge file ... What's Gail got that's so magic? ... Apparently she's a "straight shooter" ... But then, there's a f**k-up ... Whose f**k-up? ... Dorothy explains
Billings, Schadenfreude, Team players, The Firm Junior Junior • Tuesday, February 26, 2013 The hidden role of pre-menstrual syndrome at the bar ... Man-flu seems a perfectly acceptable ground for non-appearance ... The role of the hot-water bottle ... Junior Junior on secret women's business
Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, February 25, 2013 Google v ACCC ... Advertisements are advertisements and Google's AdWords isn't responsible if they are misleading ... Challenge to make search engines more accountable, without destroying their openness and convenience ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski examine the case and the policy issues
Advertising, Google, High Court of Australia Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Monday, February 18, 2013
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HSI v Kyodo ... Challenging the government to protect Australia's Antarctic whale sanctuary ... Four years of Federal Court argy-bargy to get an injunction against Japanese whalers ... ICJ and the legality of Japan's permits under whaling "research" program ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski look at the cases
Felicity Gerry • Monday, February 11, 2013 Mirian Margoyles' view of Australia as a land of opportunity and equality doesn't quite fit with the way whitefella law is dished-up to Aborigines in the Top End ... What to make of Dennis Rostron's case ... Observations from visiting London criminal lawyer Felicity Gerry
Aboriginal defendant, Northern Territory, Parole Theodora • Friday, February 8, 2013
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It's a pity the denizens of Sydney were deprived of reading many of the details of criminal proceedings involving the Ibrahim family ... Heavy-handed court suppression orders effectively shut-off news reporting of a conspiracy to murder case against Michael Ibrahim ... John Ibrahim's name also ordered to be unmentionable
Suppression orders Stephen Keim & Benedict Coyne • Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Court ordered sex reassignment surgery for convicted murderer ... Transsexuals' rights to medical treatment in prison ... Cruel and unusual punishment ... 8th amendment ... Political and media storm over judge's decision ... Reassurance for Bradley Manning's female alter-ego ... Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne report
Artemus Jones • Friday, January 25, 2013 Artemus Jones bemoans the descent into acrimonious attacks on those who express unpopular views ... Wither free speech? ... Channel 7 "personality" and the manufactured hoopla on breast-feeding in public
Breast-feeding in public, Free speech Junior Junior • Monday, January 21, 2013 Some barristers have to slink back to work because of their shameful antics at the end-of-year chamber's party ... Junior Junior is not one of them ... She stayed late at the party and now has something up her sleeve that may prove useful on a rainy night
Barristers, Christmas party Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh • Friday, January 18, 2013 ASIO and refugees' security assessments ... The High Court trod gingerly in the M47 case ... Now its earlier finding on permanent detention is up-for-grabs by a differently constituted court ... Lawyers for asylum seekers will be back for another round
ASIO, Migration Act, Refugees, Security assessment Junior Junior • Wednesday, December 19, 2012 There are rules for women who have children while at the bar ... No space for joys of motherhood ... Junior Junior unmoved by WBF instructions
Barristers, Motherhood, Women in law Theodora • Monday, December 17, 2012 The editor of Justinian tells the AGS information law conference in Canberra that if freedom of the press allows for the protection of a certain amount of misinformation, it should also do more to protect the truth ... The dangers of a statutory tort of privacy ... Speech ... Speech ... Speech
Free speech, Press freedom Stephen Keim & Mary B. Ayad • Saturday, December 15, 2012 Egyptians (some of them) vote to ratify a flawed Constitution ... Grab to entrench Islamist power ... Pluralism unlikely to succeed ... More for Morsi ... Background to Egypt's convulsion from Stephen Keim and Mary Ayad
Eqypt, Muslim Brotherhood Theodora • Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Storm on social media and the blogosphere over Jenny Coopes' cartoon ... When is enough, enough? ... Community outcry forces cartoonist into hiding ... Democracy at work
Cartoons, Jenny Coopes, Outcry, Social media Stephen Keim & Jordan Sosnowski • Tuesday, December 4, 2012 The evolution of human rights to animal rights ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski trace the movement from Pythagoras to vegetarian monsters to William Wilberforce ... Animal rights and vegetarianism
Animal rights, Human rights, Julian Burnside