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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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Submissions in Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission ... Online file ... 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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Apr202022

At the Vladitorium

It has been headline time for Vlad the Impaler ... Esteemed employee struck off the jam roll ... Atanaskovic Hartnell even wanted to charge the client for tracking his stolen money ... Then there was the Elizabeth Kelly case ... The bully division ... Fear of managing partner's tendency to "denigrate" and hold "grudges" ... Max Shanahan and Henry Chen report 

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Friday
Apr152022

No tickets on him

Barrister with personality issues ... Plying the trade while unticketed ... Multiple breaches ... Nose thumbed at authority of the court ... Criminal contempt ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Apr142022

Regulatory poodle

ASIC ... Corporate watchdog with muted bark ... Frydenberg's defenestration of Hayne's work ... Major lapses not investigated ... Unhelpful judicial decisions ... Shareholders and the public in peril ... Henry Chen reports 

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Wednesday
Apr132022

Free association

Former judge's associate wants compensation ... Relationship with judge ... Claims she was ashamed and humiliated after Supreme Court intervention ... Court process likely to be examined by equal opportunity authority ... Judges' discomforted by unfortunate turn of events ... From our Tasmanian Affairs desk 

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Friday
Apr082022

Is all really fair in Love and Thoms?

Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken suspicion based on citizenship status ... Migration Act ... Background, arguments and implications ...Difficult challenge for the High Court ... Codey Swadling reports 

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Thursday
Apr072022

Seeds planted

The slow growing variety ... Climate litigation ... Duty of care ... Sharma case ... Full Feds reluctant to meddle with minister's coal mine approval ... Assumption that politicians can make "wise policy" ... More climate cases in the wings ... Torres Strait case ... Call for bold politicians and brave judges ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Apr012022

Exquisite finery

UK Supremos flee Hong Kong's top appeal court ... Judicial independence in the hands of Australian retirees ... Catching Collaery ... Preposterous post-nominals ... AAT gets a top-notch Callinan ... Peace breaks out at Vic's bar ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Mar312022

The Ginni and Clarence Show

Wife of Supreme Court justice actively involved in political issues before the court ... Mrs Thomas - a conspiracy theorist and extremist who wants to overthrow the 2020 election results ... Clarence Thomas a poor quality court appointment ... The race issue ... Anita Hill ... Conflicts ... Failure to recuse ... Further blight on an already damaged US Supreme Court ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Tuesday
Mar292022

Roberts-Smith VC and the perils of a truth defence

VC winner's defamation case not going well, at this stage ... Allegations of bullying, intimidation and murder ... Astronomical costs ... Kerry Stokes holds the purse strings ... Lessons from the libel cases of John Marsden and Oscar Wilde ... Artemus Jones comments

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