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Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >> 

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An Australian Abroad ... An essay with pictures … Egypt and the Grand Museum … No end to the antiquities … Down the Nile on a dahabiya … Tombs and temples … Paris and industrial-scale tourism … The Yarts & Kulture ... Read on >> 

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Justinian Columnists

Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >> 

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Justinian's Bloggers

Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

Kristi Noem, Secretary Department of Homeland Security, giving the US Senate her understanding of the meaning of Habeas Corpus ... May 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


Justinian Featurettes

Zeilgeist 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 >> 


Justinian's archive

Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Justinian featurettes

There's another world beyond law and lawyering ... and here you can find it: reviews, wine notes, interviews, and unpacking the human condition.  

Critics' Corner: reviews of books, films and TV by Worm, I. Box and Miss Lumière.
Déjà Vu: marvellous slices of history from Justinian's bulging archive.
I Once Met ... Prominent and unusual people encourtered by our readers and contributors. 
JustyFlix: our film crew covers the most glittering events on the calendar. 
On the Couch: where notable notables bear their souls. 
Wendler on Wine: spectacular wine reviews, gargling and spitting from barrister Gabriel Wendler.  


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Thursday
Apr242025

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  

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Wednesday
Mar122025

Letter from Rome

Judges on strike over constitutional changes ... Independence of prosecutors at stake ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports 

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Tuesday
Mar042025

Judgment for sale 

Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains 

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Sunday
Jan262025

Damien Carrick

Damien Carrick has presented Law Report on the ABC for 23 years ... An insight into the man behind the microphone ... Law and media ... Pursuit of the story ... Pressing topics ... Informative guests ... On The Couch 

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Thursday
Nov282024

Bird on the wing

Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP 

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Wednesday
Nov272024

The great interceptor

Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments 

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Friday
Nov152024

Between a Rock Chopper and a Hard Place

Church abuse survivor given the Bird ... High Court and the "agency" of Catholic priests ... No liability for predatory clerics ... How did we get to this? ... What would Peter McClellan think? ... Procrustes on the latest loophole for the church 

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Monday
Oct282024

Vale Percy Allan AM

Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art

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Monday
Oct142024

Drumgold cleared 

SCOOP ... Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council ... Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct ... Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons ... Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian 

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Wednesday
Sep112024

Tootsies with Planet Janet

Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen  

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