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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 >> 

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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 >> 

"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 ... 


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Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Jul202018

Greg Tolhurst

Greg Tolhurst is the Executive Director of the NSW Bar Association and he's on Justinian's Couch ... An indoors-outdoors sort of person ... Huge pile of books beside his bed ... Lots of music ... Running the bar association at a time of considerable disruption ... Bin Chicken SC and Bullfry practising without tickets ... Dinner table banter ... Dessert and drumming ... No hot sun but more vitamin D 

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Wednesday
Jul182018

Dinner's off

Attorney General seeking money from well-lined barristers ... Feeder pond for the federal courts ... Solicitor whacked with costs after long-winded communications break-down ... Bye-bye Bluto ... ANU's online Juris Doctor brought back to life ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Monday
Jul162018

Points on The Map

Groomed for success ... Ticket remains in suspension after failed Full Court appeal ... More collateral injuries from the Neill-Fraser case ... Notebooks shredded in Slicer contempt scare ... Supreme Court judges sit on top of each other 

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Friday
Jul132018

Self-represented lawyers and their fees

Lawyers who act for themselves have a fee-earner for a client ... Breakthrough from the NSW Court of Appeal ... Chorley principle extends to barristers ... Happily, all brands of lawyers can now charge fees for representing themselves in litigation ... Stephen Murray reports courtside 

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Friday
Jul132018

Horrifications, blackouts and stress

"Im a solicitor ... and you're a fat c***" ... The defence of "alcohol induced blackout" ... Plus, a barrister tells a fib to Philip Selth ... Plus, the dreadful bank deposit book mix-up 

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Friday
Jul062018

It's a Lottery

Busy time at the Bureau de Spank ... Barrister's breach of undertakings ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Solicitor lets non-lawyer husband have access to her firm's trust account ... Unauthorised withdrawals ... Lack of professional candour ... Stephen Murray reports from the Hellfire Club 

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Friday
Jul062018

Lorenzo Street's passing out parade

Street the Stockman ... The shirt of flies ... Platypus Junction ... Street the charmer ... Friend of the press ... A legacy in law and love ... The sea and the bush 

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Thursday
Jul052018

The Minus wars

Struggle by the Australian Bar Association to keep its name to itself ... Barrister's business used a similar name ... Attempt to make barristers' service more accessible ... Into the future ... Long and tiring litigation looks like drawing to a close ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Wednesday
Jul042018

Keeping the government safe

Collaery prosecution ... Whistleblowing conspiracy ... Fallout from Australia's Timor Leste bugging spree ... Woodside and Alexander Downer ... Selective prosecution policy ... Canberra's long, slow dance with duplicity 

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