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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 >> 

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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 >> 

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"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 >> 

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Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ... 

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 


Justinian's archive

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 >> 


 

 

Friday
May122017

The missing psychiatrist

Litigation ... Claims of a "stratagem" ... Psychiatrist gives hundreds of expert reports to litigants, but cannot be located for cross-examination ... Doctor is subpoenaed but fails the show in person ... The syrup in every pudding ... Dizzo judge asks the Supreme Court to examine the possibility of contempt ... Sohini Mehta reports on a strange case 

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Thursday
May112017

Pauline Wright

Ms Wright ... A busy bee, if ever there was one ... Pauline Wright, actor, swimmer, lifesaver, campaigner, playwright, passionate devotee to good causes ... And president of the Law Society of NSW ... Meet the person behind the whirlwind 

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Wednesday
May102017

A night out

The big night of bench and bar schmoozing interrupted by a call for gender equality ... "WTF" ... Many codgers not on the page ... Women briefs ecstatic ... Tweets galore ... Others roaming the alleyways ask, "where are the characters?" 

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Monday
May082017

Manus case goes upstream

Judge agrees to streaming for Manus class action against the Commonwealth ... Open justice ... Members of the group are widely dispersed ... Benthamites delighted ... Peach Melba with her latest Yarraside report 

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Friday
May052017

Rares as hens' teeth

Federal Court judge throws down the gauntlet ... Solicitors told to keep off the bar's patch ... Too many solicitors spoiling the broth ... Barristers are more efficient and cheaper! ... The client's "best interests" 

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Friday
May052017

Not so wonderful Copenhagen

Denmark ... Great at furniture design, but wanting in legal education ... Maybe it's because university education is free ... (N.B. Malcolm Turnbull) ... An LLM exchange student looks for the rigour ... Hygge more important than a high paying job ... Hannah Wootton files from Copenhagen 

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Tuesday
May022017

Nowhere land

Kafkaesque passport scenario ... New "effective and efficient procedures" ... Stuck in immigration detention while seeking to be removed to Pakistan ... Nauru or PNG would be better than Villawood ... Shades of Al-Kateb ... From Sohini Mehta 

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Sunday
Apr302017

Outwitted

Barely Legal hallucinates about the Witness Examination Competition ... Three rounds in a haze of Codeine ... The triumph of the inquisitorial learning process ... Winning, losing - who knows 

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Saturday
Apr292017

The search for Australian values

Driven by suspicion and fear ... The store detective cases ... The "intuitive" actions of the Border Protection brigade ... Persecution of artists ... Cases that reflect different traditions ... How broadminded and tolerant are we, Procrustes asks? 

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