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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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Nov032022

Heaven's gateway

Vic Bar readers' course and exam ... Monstrously hard exam with high failure rate ... Clogged course ... Bulging waiting lists ... Skewed demographic of bar entrants ... The overflow ... Barriers to entry ... Joseph Friedman reports 

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Wednesday
Nov022022

On the rack

UN's torture inspectors turn tail ... Rebuffed in Queanbeyan ... Snail like progress on compliance system ... Funding snafu ... Australia's new human rights agenda takes a hit ... Max Shanahan with the story 

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Monday
Oct312022

Recklessly different

NSW Law Society swaps sides to support the solicitor it had wanted struck off ... NCAT out of line in trust account case ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Law Society's original complaint lacked clarity ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct252022

Furious activity

Vic's bar in ructions over election ticket ... NSW bar loses another fine old hand ... Bookshelves Brandis - a threat to the rule of law ... Alarm on appeal filing fees ... KC ordered out of court ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Oct232022

Marijuana mañana

The ins and outs of cannabis legalisation ... Proposals from Greens senator David Shoebridge ... Constitutional possibilities ... Forget the states ... Let the Commonwealth light-up ... External affairs ... Patents ... Referral powers ... Max Shanahan takes a puff 

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Friday
Oct212022

Vote early, vote often

Law Society of NSW ... Election watch ... Vote for a revamped council ... Proxies and pressure ... Lack of transparency on expenditures ... Consultant babble ... Other reforms are more pressing ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Oct142022

The Large Firm Society

Sweeping constitutional change for the Phillip Street lawyers' temple ... Handing control to the top dogs ... Resistance mounts ... AGM looms ... Patronage possibilities ... NZ Law Society loses a president ... Cultural review ... Theodora files 

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Friday
Oct142022

Hold your tongue while we punish you

Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man ... Whistleblowing about money laundering ... Law firm in barbed wire straddle ... Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church's "Melbourne Response" ... Failure to print ... Grief sweeps Vic's Bar 'n' Grill over death of monarch ... Theodora's Notebook 

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Wednesday
Oct122022

Up Hill

Slow progress from WA Supremo ... Not as speedy as the judge would have liked ... Heavy work ... Claim of oppression ... Rayney defamation decision still on ice ... Further complications ... The years roll by ... Latest from Theodora 

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