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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 ... 


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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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
Feb282023

The morning after

The trickle down judiciary ... Novel legal theories the order of the day ... No precedents required ... Trump's debauchery of the courts is coming home to roost ... Forum shopping for "Trump judges" ... Gilead fermenting ... High noon for the Murdochs ... DeSantis' torture taint ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Friday
Feb242023

Delays, fees and rubbish removal

Another two year judgment delay from WA's Hill J ... Claims of clarity and recollection need reworking ... Rebooting the AAT ... Barrister champing at the bit for his (reduced) fees ... Theodora's Goings On 

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Thursday
Feb232023

Land, lots of land under starry skies above

HWL Ebsworth found to be negligent in arrangements for massive land deal in western Sydney ... Quantum of damages yet to be determined ... Loss of opportunity to develop the land ... Failure to amend joint venture agreement in accordance with plaintiffs' instructions ... Don't fence me in 

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Tuesday
Feb212023

UN locked out of prison

United Nations human rights brigade pulls the plug on Australian prison inspections ... NSW's law 'n' order agenda threatened by Convention Against Torture ... Obstructions ... Commonwealth-State funding dispute ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest embarrassment 

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Tuesday
Feb212023

African Moot

Law students in Africa ... Pan African mooting ... Intense competition ... Idealism versus ambition ... Friendships strained ... "African values" and human rights ... Documentary reviewed by Max Shanahan 

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Thursday
Feb162023

The Eagle has landed

Fees please ... Barrister's billing sliced and diced as unfair and unreasonable ... Judge unhappy with thousands of pages of documents ... Associated costs blowout ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Feb102023

Fresh despair

Another sexually harassing judge under secret scrutiny ... Death of Robin Speed - what now for the Law of Rulers Institute? ... Averting the Republic of Gilead - the Law Reform Commission steps up ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Feb092023

Complaints department

Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial ... A storm of defamation actions ... Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action ... Pipelines to the press ... Federal Court opens the suppression portal ... Threats, complaints and investigations ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb082023

Wendler goes West

Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush 

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