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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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Jul202022

Native title - and all that baloney

State judges go sour on rights to Indigenous tucker ... Traditional laws and customs not written ... Native Title Act fails to protect customary Aboriginal hunting and fishing ... Whitey judges clueless ... Procrustes sees The Voice as the way forward on customary rights 

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Tuesday
Jul192022

Unstitching over-wrought terror laws

Deficiencies of heavy-handed anti-terror laws ... Police mismanagement and failure to comply ... Covert search warrants ... Preventative detention orders ... Major shake up for continuing detention orders ... Citizenship stripping laws get scrambled ... Max Shanahan dives into the quagmire  

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Thursday
Jul142022

White man's law

Unlike the nation as a whole, Australia's judiciary is predominantly pale and male ... Composition of courts unrepresentative of the people they serve ... The barristers' pool culturally homogenous ... Coalition's poor record of diverse cultural and gender Federal Court appointments ... Joseph Friedman calls for change 

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Thursday
Jul142022

Assignment Assange

Q & A about Julian Assange with Greg Barns SC, adviser to the Australian Assange Campaign ... Charges ... Journalism ... Espionage Act ... First Amendment ... Extradition decision and the prospects of appeal ... Flight risk ... More from Wikileaks 

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Friday
Jul082022

British criminal bar in revolt

Dire legal aid conditions bring on strikes by criminal briefs in the Old Dart ... Barristers reporting incomes below the minimum wage ... Delays in payments ... Massive exodus from the profession ... Magic Circle firms booming and bloated, while criminal justice practitioners go into debt ... Misconduct charges threatened by the LCJ ... The decay in legal aid outlined by Max Shanahan 

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Thursday
Jul072022

De Pfeffel fluffs it

Bye-Bye Boris ... What took you so long ... The end of the show for a show pony ... The Queen faced with the Lascelles principles ... Election not an option ... Curious position for the Attorney General ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from a chaotic Blighty 

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Thursday
Jul072022

More silence, less disturbance

Lawn Order ... Governments take on environmentalists ... Looking after workers by prosecuting them ... Keeping everyone "safe" ... Harsh new measures ... Unintended consequences ... Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, and UK ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest crack-downs on protesters 

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Tuesday
Jul052022

The Revolutionary Tribunal

The US Supreme Court has become a Republican law enforcement tribunal ... Abortions, guns, religion, environment ... Cherry-picked legal reasoning ... Historical inaccuracies ... Worse to come ... Same sex marriage in Texas ... Washington correspondent Roger Fitch files 

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Sunday
Jun122022

The news: good, bad and awful

Turnbull and the poisoned fountain of justice ... Doug Meagher and Costigan days remembered ... Retired silk pushing for more speed to reduce the road toll ... Lawyers and law v the public's right to know ... Gongs ... Theodora reports 

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