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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 ...

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Back in the ring ... Rape on the minister’s couch … Cover-up … Of course, there was a cover-up … Bettina Arndt and the Institute for the Presumption of Bruce Lehrmann’s Innocence … Linda Reynolds needs sympathy and money … Justice Lee’s loose crumbs ... Read on ... 

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      Justice Lee unstitches Lehrmann and leaves him naked on the couch
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      Justice Lee ... Man of the moment ... A portrait
    • The Washington Post
      A look at the lawyers defending Trump in the Stormy Daniels New York criminal trial
    • The New York Times
      Breakdown at law firm that represented Dominion in the Fax defamation case ... Partners peel off ... Complaints about "management style"
    • The New Yorker
      Hitler's final rise to power ... Germany a democracy that handed power to someone who could never claim a majority in an election and whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown
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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 ... 

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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 ... 

"A Legal Braveheart who is a defender of the rule of law. Sofronoff had the courage to expose legal misadventure of the sort that must never be condoned. He deserves the nation's gratitude."

Rule of Law Institute plugging a forthcoming lecture by Walter Sofronoff with a quote from an editorial in The Australian. April 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

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 ... 

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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 ... 

 

 

Thursday
Sep062018

Silky aspirations

• DateThursday, September 6, 2018

Scoop ... Another year and the NSW bar throws up a large quantity of contestants for a new round of the Silk Games ... Full list invites inspection ... Favourite names reappear 

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Wednesday
Sep052018

The bodies are piling-up in NSW

• DateWednesday, September 5, 2018

Coroners falling behind ... Long queue for inquests ... Coroners under-resourced ... New legislation secretly prepared even before the report of the statutory review is publicly available ... Full-blooded reforms thwarted ... Updated information to hand 

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Monday
Sep032018

Tommy Playford - South Australia's energy socialist

• DateMonday, September 3, 2018

Procrustes reviews a new film, The NEG ... Everything new is old again ... How South Australia's Tom Playford split the government with his energy policy, but captured the support of Labor ... Why didn't Turnbull take a leaf from Sir Thomas' book? ... Plus, compensation for miscarriages of justice ... Quantum determined by public opinion ... Courts should step in 

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Sunday
Sep022018

Taxing matters

• DateSunday, September 2, 2018

Unticketed criminal barrister gets low-end fine for breaching undertakings about tax payments ... Misleading the Bar Council amounts to professional misdonduct ... A steep fine would put family home in  jeopardy ... Nick Bonyhady reports from NCAT 

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Friday
Aug312018

Julian Morrow

• DateFriday, August 31, 2018

The Chaser's Julian Morrow gets serious on Justinian's Couch ... An escapee from the law who came into our lives as a comedian and satirist ... The joys of employment law could not hold him ... Now the master of ceremonies at Continuing Professional Development Under the Influence 

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Thursday
Aug302018

Post-retirement judicial snafu

• DateThursday, August 30, 2018

Molonglo Bulletin ... Latest developments on the case of the unfortunate Mr Lewis, caught in the cruel machinery of the ACT Supreme Court ... Case that is long in the tooth ... Multiple judgments at cross-purposes ... Dickensian developments ... Artemus Jones reports 

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Tuesday
Aug212018

King of the courts

• DateTuesday, August 21, 2018

Expansion of the Federal Court empire sees Registrar on more pay than the judges ... Enlarged title ... Massive expansion of budgets, staff and judicial officers under territorial sway of bureaucratic operator par excellence ... Personal submission to President of the Remuneration Tribunal 

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Monday
Aug202018

Pix People

• DateMonday, August 20, 2018

Family Court CJ on message with the attorney general ... Searching for Sarah Fregon's replacement at Vic's Bar ... Lease of life for Act of Settlement, 1701 ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Aug192018

Cases and catastrophes

• DateSunday, August 19, 2018

One more minus ... Support for Bernard Collaery ... Attempted throttling at chamber's drinkies ... Judges prefer Blackstone ... Dog of a case ... Adversarial difficulties in Latin America ... Theodora reports 

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