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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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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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
May112023

Stone the Crow

The sexual battery verdict against Trump ... Further peril pending ... Clarence Thomas in the pocket of reactionary benefactor ... Secret gifts sink the remnants of SCOTUS' ethical standing ... Ousting the veto power of state governors ... Voting limitations run riot ... Roger Fitch in Washington 

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Thursday
May112023

Laments from across the Nullarbor

Solicitors and women surging onto the bench in Western Australia ... Old timers incandescent ... Claims of inadequate trial experience for Supreme Court appointment ... Male silks overlooked ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
May092023

Wither pro bono?

There's no such thing as a free lunch ... And free lawyers are just as scarce ... Pro bono arrangement scrapped by SA appeal court ... Disincentive for lawyers to do the hard yards on wrongful conviction cases ... Hugh Selby writes 

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Sunday
May072023

Law of dispossession

Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at Yass ... An end to the grand piano ... An alternative consideration of New South Wales ... Review by Max Shanahan 

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Friday
Apr282023

We have Wood

Vic's Bar struggles with the Voice ... Should there be a position at all? ... Financial Review'slegal affairs man ticked off ... Old grizzlies out of the cage ... NSW bar run by "woke" mullahs ... More kero on the flames ... Peach Melba with Yarraside Yarns 

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Friday
Apr282023

Window ledges crowded in Phillip Street

Law Society staff and councillors jostle for space on the ledges as more flee the premises ... Regional Women Lawyers ruckus ... Concentration of power alienates young lawyers and smaller firms ... Escrow accounts for barristers create jitters ... Prospective streamlined discipline process ... Fresh hell ... From our intrepid reporter Theodora 

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Wednesday
Apr262023

Brandis era terror laws ripe for parody

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor urges abolition of continuing detention orders ... Risky risk assessment tool ... Critical review suppressed by Home Affairs ... Benbrika case ... Disproportionate Brandis-era terror laws ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Apr252023

Rock, scissors, paper

Admin law ... Power of the executive ... Reversing the AAT ... Latest thoughts from the Last Chance Saloon ... Smack for Doc. Donaghue ... Jagot seizes the moment ... Procrustes picks through the entrails of Davis v Minister for Immigration ... Plus, weirdness from Robert Gottliebsen 

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Thursday
Apr202023

Newsy person of the week

Debra Mortimer ... Coronation at the Federales ... Career highlights ... Opportunities taken ... Great cases of our time ... Champion of good causes ... Animals and children ... Theodora reports 

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