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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
Sep152022

Flashy News

A retired judge's knotted feelings ... The fox prevails over the eagle ... Lingering discomfort ... Disclosure of sexual orientation a requirement for Pat Keane's lecture ... Constitutional mysteries unpacked on YouTube ... Theodora reports  

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Thursday
Sep152022

Bar-Bar

Queensland's silk wannabes ... Rollicking dinner to venerate Her Maj ... Wigging and gowning ... Keeping the motley alive in the Solomon Islands ... Unsatisfactory conduct charge thrown out against barrister who blew the whistle on harassing judge ... Twitter tutorial for lawyers 

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Tuesday
Sep132022

Bowing to hereditary principle

Bearskins on the march ... An over-abundance of Crowns and their litigation advantages ... Prerogatives galore ... Presumed immunity from the operation of legislation ... In Ireland the Crown is capable of doing wrong ... Swearing the right sort of oath ... Procrustes vents 

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Tuesday
Sep132022

Constitutional crisis among the atolls

Throttling the judiciary in Kiribati ... Appeal decision in favour of Justice David Lambourne ... Open ended term not unconstitutional ... Judicial "coup" ... "Fraud upon the court" ... High Court judges suspended ... Role of China ... Riley Brown reports 

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Friday
Sep092022

Critics Corner

History of the Victorian bar in a nutshell ... 350 pages ... Highs and lows ... The insistence on being separate ... Great cases ... Big personalities ... Melbourne Grammar takes over from British briefs ... White bread and orthodoxy ... Hugh Vullier reviews Vic Bar 

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Wednesday
Sep072022

Khan caught behind

From cricket hero to alleged terrorist ... Imran Khan's alleged speech offences under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act ... Political opponents sidelined as terrorists ... Where the judiciary plays a political function ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep022022

Students are revolting

Lawyers of tomorrow ... Malcolm Turnbull draws law student protest at his alma mater ... Campus chaos  at University of Sydney ... Students see in Turnbull what they'll be when they grow up ... The unbearable smugness of being ... Max Shanahan reports from the front line 

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Friday
Sep022022

The state of surveillance

Rolling police surveillance at Risdon Prison ... Lawyers and other visitors illegally recorded for over two months ... Case dropped against lawyer on charges of perverting the course of justice ... Trouble at The Map 

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Tuesday
Aug302022

Palletable blueberries

Fresh waywardness from Circuit Court ... Bankruptcy petition over blueberry pallet bills ... Shortcomings in reasons ... Failure to go behind the judgment debt ... Was money actually owed to the creditor? ... Back it goes for rehearing 

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