Nicholas Hasluck


Former WA Supreme Court judge Nicholas Hasluck is our couchee ... Jurist and author - his latest work, Legal Limits, examines the connections between law and literature
Latest from Brucie ... Bruce Lehrmann v Commonwealth Special Minister of State & Maj Gen Paul Brereton (NACC) ... See SMH >> ... Application for relief under s.39B of the Judiciary Act ... Read more >>
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 >>
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 >>
Six new judges for Div 2 of the FCFC ... More >>
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 >>
"Where are the glossy magazine spreads traversing what Reynolds and Brown went through? Where is the march for justice in support of these two brave women? Where is the apology from Gallagher and Wong? Where is the inquiry into the $2.4m of taxpayer money we now know was paid by the Department of Finance on the basis of false statements?"
Linda Reynolds is the victim here, not Brittany Higgins who was raped on Reynold's ministerial couch ... From Janet Albrechtsen, leader of the Reynolds' cheer squad ... The Australian, August 29, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ...
News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >>
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 >>
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Former WA Supreme Court judge Nicholas Hasluck is our couchee ... Jurist and author - his latest work, Legal Limits, examines the connections between law and literature
Forgery, drunkenness, prejudice, injustice ... The notorious Newtown Ejectment Case of the 1850s provides a fascinating slice of colonial life ... Matt Murphy's Weight of Evidence reviewed by Linda Funnell
Former Victorian attorney general Rob Hulls on Justinian's couch ... The man who brought the Charter of Human Rights to Victoria and introduced judicial tendering ... Now director of the Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT ... Training students to be innovative and passionate
Supreme and Federal Court judges loathe to venture out of the eastern suburbs and north shore ... Law School trouble with the JD degree ... Terror appeal, CCA on red alert
Influenced by Doris Lessing and John Lee Hooker ... Proselytizer for the "globalisation of ethics" ... Closely identified with blancmange ... Steve Mark, the lawyer who wanted to stay out of jail, joins us on Justinian's couch
Panadol ... Wikipedia ... Laziness ... Atticus Finch ... Hot chips ... Frequent flyer points ... Ian Chappell ... Bach's Goldberg Variations - The secret ingredients in the life of Geoffrey Watson
NSW solicitor general Michael Sexton discusses Italian reds and whites with Justinian's wine correspondent, Gabriel Wendler ... Region by region, grape by grape, they let their taste buds do the talking
Gill Phillips is The Guardian's top in-house lawyer in London ... She's been in Australia for the past fortnight sussing out the local legal scene and drawing up long and short lists of external media law firms that might assist the new Australian edition of The Guardian ... We're fearlessly interrogating this lawyer who couldn't be an historian while she's recumbent on Justinian's couch
The punchy suburbs of Adelaide in the 1970s ... Barrister Richard Beasley's new novel Me and Rory Macbeath evokes shades of the Violet Roberts case ... Boys into men ... Domestic violence, bullying and the defence of provocation ... Reviewed by Linda Funnell
The frustrations of a pinot drinker ... With so many clones of the pinot vine, performance varies greatly ... "Fickle and troublesome" ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler finds some complex and brooding pinots among Craggy Range's Te Muna Road selection ... Taste-up at Chiswick Gardens