Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >>
"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >>
Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ...
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au
Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >>
Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ... Read more >>
Dorothy Says • Sunday, May 6, 2018 Barbie - the perfect spectator for carnivore battles ... Hubris and delusion ... How partners' meetings have changed ... Women don't talk like that ... Dorothy, our partner at big law, looks at evolutionary developments
Peach Melba • Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Where are we with the ALRC inquiry into family law? ... Issues paper ... Access to justice ... Advocacy and support services ... Therapeutic justice ... Exploration of new modes of service delivery ... Peach Melba on the case
On The Couch • Tuesday, May 1, 2018 President of Vic's Bar n Grill on Justinian's Couch ... Matt Collins discusses the findings of the State of the Victorian Bar report ... Solicitors eating more of the bar's lunch ... Barristers not overpaid, considering ... Love of Paris, The Beatles, and Australian cinema ... The Hockey case ... Defamation laws unfit for purpose ... An impatient driver of change
Court in the Act • Friday, April 27, 2018 Slipping on a shallot in Woolworths ... Weighing the free speech rights of litigants in person to indulge in threatening correspondence with insurers for defendants ... Courts and tribunals seeing a tide of over-wrought and menacing missives from angry parties ... Judges feeling edgy
City Desk • Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Former appellate judges assist the cause for a national integrity commission ... The evidence is mounting and the public support swelling ... The Coalition will be dragged kicking and squealing to this policy prescription ... Public hearings crucial ... Details of the framework ... Richard Ackland reports