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Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>

 

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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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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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Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... More >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

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 ... 


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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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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Aug012023

When No means Yes

Fit and proper ... Ticking the wrong box in practising certificate applications ... It can happen to anyone ... Concealing findings of public service misconduct ... Helping consultants latch onto the public purse ... Corruption report ... NT Law Society protecting the patch ... Ariana Haghighi reports 

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Tuesday
Aug012023

The common law needs a backbone

Out, not out ... Broad strokes ... Limits of the common law when it comes to trust in government ... Robodebt shows how ... Cases reveal the futility of the law ... Weakness of the judicial branch in setting standards for the State ... Procrustes on a mission 

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Tuesday
Jul252023

AI. Oi, Oi, Oi

Artificial intelligence as a transaction monitoring tool ... Getting to grips with the money laundromats ... The algorithm is king ... Machines are better than humans at risk identification ... What could possibly go wrong? ... Ariana Haghighi on the technological edge 

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Friday
Jul212023

Loitering on the bench

Time's up ... Lengthy cogitation ... Delays at the judicial mill ... Justice Jackman birches slow coach judge Kathleen Farrell ... Delays at the AAT ... Old laggards from WA Supremes ... Favourites and new entrants to the club ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jul192023

Tassie Tiger's Last Stand

Peter Lyons RIP ... Leverhulme's trackside send-off ... "Advokkacy forever" ... York as Shangri La ... Racehorses ... Training lawyers ... Poetry ... A huge fan club at the parade ring... Funeral notes from Simon (Capability) Brown KC 

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Monday
Jul172023

How to Kill a Client

Big Law ... Murder, money and misogyny ... Dealing with an unspeakable client ... Too much testosterone ... Crime thriller from Joanna Jenkins - someone who knows where the bodies are buried ... Book review from Anna Kretowicz  

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Tuesday
Jul112023

The infallibility of SCOTUS

US Supreme Court makes it up as it goes along ... Contrived cases to fit a reactionary agenda ... Plaintiffs with no standing ... Further indulgence for religious discrimination ... Under-equipped judges on a rampage ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Jul112023

Letter from London

Getting up to speed with Prince Harry's hacking litigation ... Spare me ... The Duke of Sussex tangles with the notion of privacy ... Press regulator IPSO makes a shock finding against the press ... Grovel from The Sun over Clarkson column ... Thamesside tales from Floyd Alexander-Hunt 

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Friday
Jul072023

Speech day

Yarraside briefs ... Sam Hay's weekly bulletins ... DPP Judd v Nettle ... A standoff beyond words ... Agonising judgment delay in visa case ... Theodora reports 

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