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Perils of the Defamatorium ... Lovely Linda Reynolds’ “victory” leaves her underwater … Politics, sex, law, and money … Injuries galore … The art of Tottling … Where’s the serious harm? … Trust me … Jurisdictional backwater ... Read more >> 

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Act of gracelessness ... Kathleen Folbigg's miserable ex gratia payout ... Comparable awards in other miscarriage cases ... Weasel words from the NSW Premier ... Need for a proper system of compensation assessment ... Procrustes in a lather ... Read more >> 

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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects ... Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find, I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now."

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell interviewed by Trump's former lawyer Todd Blanche, now Deputy Attorney General ... July 25, 2025. Interviews released by DOJ, August 22, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and Betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... Plenty to think about ... Court reporter Ginger Snatch files ... Read more >> 

 

 

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The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Justinian bloggers (blawg)


Justinian proudly publishes some of the finest lawyers ever to get their fingers near a computer keyboard. This is part of Justinian's repository that comes out from behind the paywall. 

Artemus Jones - Spending time with a women who is not his wife. 
Barely Legal - Still at law school, trying to understand what it's all about. 
Comment - Untamed opinions. 
Critics Corner - Criticism of critics. 
Dorothy Says - Dot is a partner at a big law firm with acidic observations about what goes on. 
Junior Junior - Our baby barrister blogger slowly comes to grips with the mysteries of the bar. 
Peach Melba - Dazzling, with a finely tuned Yarraside snout. 
Procrustes - The columnist who also blogs. 
Student-at-Large - Small students with large opinions. 
Theodora - Theodora was married to Justinian, and despite a shaky start in life now runs the empire like Mrs Thatcher. 
Unrobed - Reporting on unhealthy obsessions. 

We'd happily induct you into the blawging hall of fame if you wanted to unpack a few burning issues. Contact the Ed. for further and better particulars. 

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Friday
Jan182013

A glimpse of the future

• DateFriday, January 18, 2013

ASIO and refugees' security assessments ... The High Court trod gingerly in the M47 case ... Now its earlier finding on permanent detention is up-for-grabs by a differently constituted court ... Lawyers for asylum seekers will be back for another round 

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Wednesday
Dec192012

Motherhood at the bar

• DateWednesday, December 19, 2012

There are rules for women who have children while at the bar ... No space for joys of motherhood ... Junior Junior unmoved by WBF instructions 

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Monday
Dec172012

Misinformation and the law

• DateMonday, December 17, 2012

The editor of Justinian tells the AGS information law conference in Canberra that if freedom of the press allows for the protection of a certain amount of misinformation, it should also do more to protect the truth ... The dangers of a statutory tort of privacy ... Speech ... Speech ... Speech

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Saturday
Dec152012

Morsi crosses a great river

• DateSaturday, December 15, 2012

Egyptians (some of them) vote to ratify a flawed Constitution ... Grab to entrench Islamist power ... Pluralism unlikely to succeed ... More for Morsi ... Background to Egypt's convulsion from Stephen Keim and Mary Ayad 

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Tuesday
Dec112012

Cartoonist in hot water

• DateTuesday, December 11, 2012

Storm on social media and the blogosphere over Jenny Coopes' cartoon ... When is enough, enough? ... Community outcry forces cartoonist into hiding ... Democracy at work 

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Tuesday
Dec042012

Seamless expressions of empathy

• DateTuesday, December 4, 2012

The evolution of human rights to animal rights ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski trace the movement from Pythagoras to vegetarian monsters to William Wilberforce ... Animal rights and vegetarianism  

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Monday
Dec032012

Tobacco wars

• DateMonday, December 3, 2012

The recent High Court ruling on the the packaging of cigarettes is not the last word ... The tobacco companies have turned to international fora in three parallel proceedings ... Potential downside is huge ... Mary Ayad argues that the Australia's sovereign interests should trump an argument about intellectual property rights 

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Thursday
Nov292012

Alannah Hill, barrister

• DateThursday, November 29, 2012

Junior Junior is not a lesbian ... She wears pink heels and still wins in the traffic court ... Two types of women barristers ... Both lethal 

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Monday
Oct292012

Patel trial - what went wrong

• DateMonday, October 29, 2012

Community pressure and the justice system ... Frenzied media storm ... Prosecution shifted from a wide case to a narrower one ... Earlier evidence prejudicial ... Mud slinging exercise ... Stephen Keim and Salwa Marsh report

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Monday
Oct222012

Psycho or psychic? 

• DateMonday, October 22, 2012

Six qualities that law firms really need in a new graduate ... Psychic powers are a job-clincher ... Draft letter from student-at-large 

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Friday
Oct192012

Leg break

• DateFriday, October 19, 2012

Extracting overdue money from a solicitor while still being smarmy enough to get further briefs ... The waiting game ... So sorry to bother you ... Junior Junior thinks it time to break some legs 

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Monday
Oct152012

Home on the free range

• DateMonday, October 15, 2012

How free is free range? ... Not very at all ... Egg industry body seeking ACCC approval to use "free range" label for farmers keeping 140,000 chooks to the hectare ... Action against false "free to roam" claims ... Trade Mark ... "Elysian Fields" embraces cooped and crushed ... Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski report 

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Tuesday
Oct092012

The Smallbone principle

• DateTuesday, October 9, 2012

It's silk time of year and Junior Junior is ticked pink to see so many of the female persuasion getting red bags ... Overtones of the Miss Universe pageant 

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Wednesday
Oct032012

Opinions from counsel

• DateWednesday, October 3, 2012

Dorothy's helpful tips to barristers on how not to write ridiculous opinions ... Avoid expressions from 1873 ... Be clear about saying "it's not clear" ... Use less paper ... Better quality wishy-washy 

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Monday
Aug272012

First week

• DateMonday, August 27, 2012

Four blunders ... Four defence points ... Three abnormal colleagues ... Junior Junior gives us lists ... Her first week in new chambers 

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