Front PageFront Pagehttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/2013-05-20T06:59:21ZSquarespaceHigh class racketeeringhttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/high-class-racketeering.htmlJustinian2013-05-20T05:37:28Z2013-05-20T05:37:28ZThe personal injury racket ... The no win, no fee racket ... The after-the-event insurance racket ... The unauthorised practice of law racket ... Tulkinghorn examines the meaty bone and its associated lawyer rackets

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]]>Bail outhttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/bail-out-1.htmlJustinian2013-05-19T14:05:37Z2013-05-19T14:05:37ZNew South Wales' new bail legislation ... Presumption against bail still there in all but name ... Juveniles get one extra chance to reapply ... In last 30 years the proportion of the prison population on remand has doubled ... Legislation designed to please the police ... Former magistrate Max Taylor reports 

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]]>Fish shop phone furorehttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/fish-shop-phone-furore.htmlJustinian2013-05-18T05:54:35Z2013-05-18T05:54:35ZBarrister and solicitor were parties to secret recording of mobile phone conversation while a trial was in progress ... Impropriety ... Application to tender recording rejected ... Breach of Surveillance Devices Act and Evidence Act ... Alix Piatek reports 

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]]>Queue Seehttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/queue-see.htmlJustinian2013-05-15T12:52:51Z2013-05-15T12:52:51ZQld gazettes arrangements for converting from senior counsel to queen's counsel ... Marketing ploy in a desperately needy climate ... Melbourne SC still pressing for the queen's counsel option while fighting off attacks on the "imponderables" of selection ... Warning: original notion of the QC had little to do with higher fees  

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]]>Legal Aid: pips are squealinghttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/legal-aid-pips-are-squealing.htmlJustinian2013-05-10T06:18:06Z2013-05-10T06:18:06ZScoop ... Boning knife taken to NSW Legal Aid ... No money for Local Court trials, unless defendants face the "real possibility" of a gaol sentence ... Letter from director of the criminal law division ... Challenges in "managing the reaction from the bench" ... Massive resources for the coppers produces squeeze lower down the food chain 

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]]>US soldiers are special: they can shoot, but they can't be shothttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/us-soldiers-are-special-they-can-shoot-but-they-cant-be-shot.htmlJustinian2013-05-08T06:22:01Z2013-05-08T06:22:01ZUS government has its very own radical Islam website ... Judge overrules some of the FBI's denial of rights to Boston bombing suspect ... Canadian to appeal Guantánamo conviction ... Guilty plea to invalid charges ... Pentagon citing Civil War precedents in Bradley Manning stitch-up ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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]]>Retrospective: Te Muna Road Pinothttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/retrospective-te-muna-road-pinot.htmlJustinian2013-05-08T03:20:11Z2013-05-08T03:20:11ZThe frustrations of a pinot drinker ... With so many clones of the pinot vine, performance varies greatly ... "Fickle and troublesome" ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler finds some complex and brooding pinots among Craggy Range's Te Muna Road selection ... Taste-up at Chiswick Gardens 

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]]>Hiding under rockshttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/hiding-under-rocks.htmlJustinian2013-05-03T09:20:30Z2013-05-03T09:20:30ZQld AG insists there's no rape of teenagers in Pineapple Land jails ... Silk's daily rate for the crown ... Canberra firm fails in early round to squelch picketing client's Mum ... Justice Bromberg's vital statistics 

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]]>Where are they now?http://www.justinian.com.au/home/where-are-they-now.htmlJustinian2013-05-03T02:42:11Z2013-05-03T02:42:11ZThe moving and shaking of a Law Society high-flyer … The Armidale connection … The University of New England and living in the shadow of Dickie Torbay  

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]]>Clutz blinkshttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/clutz-blinks.htmlJustinian2013-05-01T02:00:02Z2013-05-01T02:00:02ZBig law shop drops its insistence on having Allan Myers for the Chris Dale case ... Appeal ditched ... No more mucking around 

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]]>Gentlemen, pleasehttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/gentlemen-please.htmlJustinian2013-04-30T09:35:01Z2013-04-30T09:35:01ZTouchy war of words between the upper and lower stratas of the federal judiciary ... Raphael v Perram; Perram v Raphael ... It’s a matter of tone ... Alix Piatek reports 

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]]>The $1 billion judgmenthttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/the-1-billion-judgment.htmlJustinian2013-04-29T09:59:38Z2013-04-29T09:59:38ZCompo lawyers will be paining the town red ... NSW Court of Appeal wipes out 25 percent of the government's proposed savings from the 2012 workers comp reforms ... Lump sums are back - at the old rate  

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]]>Government's bar billhttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/governments-bar-bill.htmlJustinian2013-04-24T06:25:44Z2013-04-24T06:25:44ZCrown keeping a tight rein on barrister expenses in NSW ... Funding for the bar virtually unchanged for two-and-a-half years ... Top fee last year for Crown Solicitor's civil work was $1,054,501.25 ... Full list of fees paid ... Another scoop from Justinian 

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]]>The saga of Jimmy Savilehttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/the-saga-of-jimmy-savile.htmlJustinian2013-04-24T03:27:29Z2013-04-24T03:27:29ZRolf Harris named in the mainstream media following his arrest ... Now lawyers and MPs want to restrict naming of people arrested, but not yet charged ... The Jimmy Savile affair and the spread of allegations ... "Everyone" knew, but no one did anything ... Where's the money? ... Investigation industry thriving ... Theodora on the case 

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]]>The PM who was never quite realhttp://www.justinian.com.au/home/the-pm-who-was-never-quite-real.htmlJustinian2013-04-23T09:23:41Z2013-04-23T09:23:41ZThe nation turns against a sponger who'd milked the system ... Leverhulme farewells Thatcher, a revolutionary, not a Tory ... Brought down by a "howling intellectual error" ... London Calling 

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