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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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      Greg Barns SC ... The Segal report on combatting antisemitism is Trumpian ... It should be ignored
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      Another report from Brian Leveson ... The way judge and jury trials are organised is unsustainable ... If allowed to continue criminal justice in Britain will collapse
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      A special report on lawyers' assessments on whether to build or buy AI tools
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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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      Israel's war in Gaza has undermined freedom of speech and the international rule of law
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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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Bradley John Murdoch RIP ... Much more than the headlines ... Devoted family man ... Respected prisoner ... Great in the kitchen ... Generous and gentle ... Plus, the three missing KCs ... Former Law Institute President Christopher Dale issues a statement on behalf of the family ... More >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

"What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI."

Charlie Kirk, American conservative and conspiracy theorist on the Texas floods ... The Charlie Kirk Show, July 9, 2025  Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Oct132017

Speaking up, and down, for equality

• DateFriday, October 13, 2017

Same-sex marriage ... "Equality" and "discrimination" are the themes adopted by most of the professional law bodies around the country ... It's difficult for lawyers to argue against equality ... Instead, timid lawyers stay schtum ... Portraits in nervousness ... Here's our survey of how the bars and law societies have got to grips with a proposed change to the Marriage Act 

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Tuesday
Oct102017

McNabbed

• DateTuesday, October 10, 2017

Lapses, failings and breaches see Melbourne solicitor put off the track for nine months ... A lack of insight ... Bankruptcy ... Madeline White follows the chaotic trail 

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Monday
Oct092017

Solicitor's swindle faces head-on collision

• DateMonday, October 9, 2017

How to rob a bank with a ball-point pen ... A long and expensive fraud results in the inevitable - an order for striking off ... Bogus loan applications … Ponzi scheme … Victoria's most expensive case of fraud and deception … Luan Whitworth on the case 

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Sunday
Oct082017

Hypocrite alert

• DateSunday, October 8, 2017

Young Christian sacked by employer because she was a NO voter ... SSM ... Andrew Bolt, never the sharpest tool in the shed, makes a mess of his free speech credentials ... Subeta Vimalarajah on inconsistent anti-discrimination laws 

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Saturday
Oct072017

Saudi women drivers and the HR plague

• DateSaturday, October 7, 2017

One small step for women in  Saudi Arabia ... A step back for Channel 7's Amy Taeuber ... Sex discrimination legislation and the human resources bubble ... Same sex marriage and the failure of advocacy ... Remembering Alfred Dreyfus ... Procrustes opens a vein 

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Wednesday
Oct042017

Slaters sliced

• DateWednesday, October 4, 2017

Pulling up the anchor at Slater & Gordon ... Where are the silken crime briefs? ... Bulletin from The Map ... Language of the law ... Human right to use the court's bathroom ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Oct042017

Eating the court's lunch

• DateWednesday, October 4, 2017

Staff at federal courts work-to-rule ... Leaflets to litigants ... Unhappiness mounts ... No pay rise for four years ... Registry merger ... Sackings ... Difficulty crossing a picket line  

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Friday
Sep292017

Workplace grief

• DateFriday, September 29, 2017

Sex discrimination and harassment complaints against HWL Ebsworth ... NCAT hearing ... The case shows signs of devouring significant time and costs 

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Tuesday
Sep262017

What has Dietrich been up to?

• DateTuesday, September 26, 2017

A dip into September's cases brought under Victoria's Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities ... Human rights of prisoners and Sikhs at school ... So far the world hasn't collapsed ... Peach Melba on the front line 

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