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The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >> 

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Suing for defamation - it's such a good idea ...Federal Court of Australia ... Sydney barrister loses bid for extension of time to bring appeal over decision allowing Giles George to intervene to seek an equitable lien over costs ... Falling out between barrister and firm after successful defamation action ... No error or procedural unfairness ... From Stephen Murray at the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... 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've stopped six wars in the last - I'm averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan, and a lot of them. Congo was just and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I won't go into it very much, because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. They've been fighting for 500 years, intermittently, and we solved that war. You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it ..."

President Donald Trump at a meeting in Scotland with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer ... July 28, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Home Duties ... The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus ... Behind the scenes ... Bastardry among the brothers ... Unfinished business ... Family law, privacy ... Considerable policy and legislative results ... Here's Michelle Rowland as AG ... What are her priors? ... Polly Peck reports from the Gallery ... Read more >> 


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Abolish silks ... Sydney SC writes to the editor calling for abolition of the silk system ... Appointments are anachronistic ... It's not a matter of ability, only notability ... Secret blackballing ... "Corrupt" process ... Confessions from an insider who played the game ... From Justinian's Archive, October 24, 2002 ... Read more >> 


 

 

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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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Entries by Justinian (282)

Friday
Dec272013

Highs and lows 

Another fun-filled year for lawyers and the law ... 2013 bursting with distressing moments ... A collection of highlights and lowlights 

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Wednesday
Dec112013

Premier Newman misleading parliament

Strong case that Premier Campbell Newman misled the Queensland Parliament ... Ducking for cover over PCMC investigations ... Patsy article from CMC in support of bikie law ... Denial strains credulity ... From Stephen Keim and Alex McKean 

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Wednesday
Dec042013

Bowen Hills Bugle asleep on the job 

Was the Crime and Misconduct Commission recruited to write puff pieces in support of the bikie legislation? ... Questions the Courier-Mail should be asking ... Conflict of evidence still unresolved ... Stephen Keim and Alex McKean press ahead 

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Saturday
Nov302013

Trashing Fitzgerald's legacy

Queensland's Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee sacked by Newman government ... Democratic institutions threatened ... Was the head of the Crime & Misconduct Commission pressured to publicly support the government's bikie laws? ... Irreconcilable evidence ... From Stephen Keim and Alex McKean   

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Tuesday
Nov122013

An 'A' for a lay

The Sydney Sparkes Orr scandal is long forgotten ... These days it is not uncommon for academics to be engaged in horizontal collaboration with their students ... Law lecturer Dr Criminale probes 

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Monday
Oct282013

Brief encounter  

The interplay between barrister and solicitor ... Did Junior Junior's female friend at the bar get a big brief because the solicitor fancied her? ... Surely it's her legal skills that are in demand?  

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Friday
Sep272013

Leave application rejected

Teaching students? - forget about it ... The pressing work of law faculty academics is filling out online forms and formatting medical certificates ... Dr Criminale flunks his test with the university's Office of Strategy and Outcomes 

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Thursday
Sep262013

Losing touch with ourselves 

Junior Junior goes all political ... Her sought-after insights on the federal election and the bar's tussle over incorporation ... Time for change ... Colleagues agree 

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Friday
Jul192013

Boxing beats scholarship

A kind of madness grips Dr Criminale as his allocated pile of exam papers doesn't seem to diminish ... The academic art of staying conscious while assessing the work of students ... The production mill that manufactures new lawyers 

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Wednesday
Jul102013

Untrustworthy opponents

Treachery among learned friends ... Being double-crossed by one's own ... Junior Junior would rather play fair and lose the case, than foul and win it ... How honourable can you get? 

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Friday
Jun282013

I'm a loser

"Why are you here?" the judge asks ... Lessons from a run of losses ... Junior Junior is advised about the virtue of defeat 

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Sunday
Jun232013

Deferred examination application

Law students and their sense of entitlement ... The daily horror of confronting the demands of undeserving yoof ... Dr Criminale teaches at one of our leading halls of learning and is on the front line of the battle 

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Friday
Jun212013

A life of crowded hours

Obit ... Peter Lyons visited an ailing Michael Hodgman QC in a nursing home, where he gives an unusually short answer ... In the grip of emphysema ... One of Tasmania's more unpredictable lawyer-politicians ... "What has the amazement of the Australian citizen got to go with it?" asks Gummow J ... Hodgman RIP 

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Monday
Jun102013

Turning to the dark side

As the latest snoop revelations show, the security apparatus knows no limits ... How Australia played a role in secret detention and extraordinary rendition ... Globalizing Terror ... The case of Khaled El-Masri ... The ECHR tells a harrowing story of prisoner abuse ... From Stephen Keim & Salwa Marsh 

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Thursday
Jun062013

Barrister breaks down near Barrow Creek

UK criminal barrister Felicity Gerry in the Top End ... Meeting Les, witness number five at the Bradley Murdoch trial ... Picked-up by "ex-police officers with a mining interest" ... Spicy meat pies at the Barrow Creek Hotel and other Territory treats 

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