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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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Above The Law ... Introducing the Big Law Spine Index ... Trump's attack on the rule of law ... How the major firms are managing the assault on their independence ... 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 >> 

 

 

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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Entries by Justinian (282)

Friday
Nov182011

Police have trouble swearing

• DateFriday, November 18, 2011

Industrial scene in Melbourne turns ugly ... Hospital bosses' plan to intimidate nurses during strike ... Vic Police achieve productivity gains by dispensing with the need to swear affidavits ... Fat Tony changes his plea ... Wallopers fail to break-up chicken factory picket line ... Peach Melba reporting  

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Friday
Nov112011

The readers' curse

• DateFriday, November 11, 2011

Bar readers don't have any reading ... Promising careers blighted by large numbers of settlements or adjournments ... No real work, just fiddling on Facebook ... Junior Junior reports on tardiness by Leatherface

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Monday
Oct242011

First week at Hogwarts

• DateMonday, October 24, 2011

Junior Junior's first days at the bar ... She smartly identified three types of barrister ... Does the bar attract weirdos or does the bar make them weird? ... The baby barrister blog 

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Wednesday
Aug102011

Wrecking by stealth

• DateWednesday, August 10, 2011

As soon as premier Baillieu said Vic's Charter of Rights could stay, the leaks began as to how costly it is ... Government seeks votes with law 'n' order agenda ... Some lessons are never learned ... C7 judgment gave an interesting insight into the commercial and legal morality at News Ltd ... Move along, nothing has changed ... Peach Melba's blog 

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Tuesday
Aug022011

Lawyers off the leash

• DateTuesday, August 2, 2011

Lawyers are returning to bite the Murdochs on their posteriors ... James Murdoch's pants are on fire ... Commons committee wants an explanation (a better one this time) ... Lawyers are off the leash   

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Friday
Jul222011

A private moment 

• DateFriday, July 22, 2011

Gillard government declares it's time to sink the slipper into the reptiles of the media ... Thank you Rupert ... Theodora opines 

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Wednesday
Jul132011

The DWEEB team

• DateWednesday, July 13, 2011

Is the partner running the performance reviews actually a suboptimal performer himself? ... It looks like it ... A world in which 40 percent is the new 50 percent ... Meeting adjourned after bad debt allegation ... Dorothy blogs  

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Monday
Jul042011

Gary Livingstone Seagull

• DateMonday, July 4, 2011

Dorothy turns sneaky theft of her file into a clever advantage ... So clever, in fact, that it comes back to bite her ... Law firm strategies for manipulating partners and clients ... Client Seagull Syndrome 

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Tuesday
Sep072010

Of lambs and slaughter

• DateTuesday, September 7, 2010

Life in the Spigeltent with with Tippy, Gus and Plastic Man ... The slaughterhouse beckons ... Eventually tipstaves have to find themselves ... Or remain forever directionless 

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Tuesday
May252010

A Leagues of their own

• DateTuesday, May 25, 2010

Tippy delves into the soul of her colleagues and discovers a terrifying mix of ignorance, ambition and insecurity … It all blossoms during drinkies at the Leagues Club

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Friday
May142010

Goings On ...

• DateFriday, May 14, 2010

Confusion about proposed assault on crown prosecutors’ paypackets … Vic Supremes relent and cough-up excess payments … Pistilli v Atanaskovic shifts to the Court of Chancery … Move over Melbourne Cup – here come the solicitor sponsored Balcaldine goat races

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Friday
Apr232010

Notes from the inside

• DateFriday, April 23, 2010

Circuitous and artful influences are drawing Tippy towards life as a (professional) lawyer after time at the court is up … Nothing too upbeat … It’s all deliciously underhand.

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