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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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    • ABC Law Report
      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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Justinian Columnists

"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'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 >> 

 

 

Monday
Feb062017

A tale of two Bruces

• DateMonday, February 6, 2017

Ancient solicitor struck-off a second time ... NCAT sets a "marker for the profession" ... Overcharging, misappropriation, failure to account ... The usual chicanery ... Naaman Zhou at the Bureau de Spank 

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Monday
Feb062017

Will of the people

• DateMonday, February 6, 2017

Dear editor ... ABA throws ink at the Daily Telegraph ... Qld bar's mea culpa in blame game ... Pass the butter - seating at Gov House for High Court feast ... Judge upset by school protocol governing criminal complaints 

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Friday
Feb032017

An expensive trip across Parliament Square

• DateFriday, February 3, 2017

Brexit live was a pleasure to watch ... Lord Hughes in dissent - a model of clarity ... Norman Birkett at the American Bar Association ... Alexander Chancellor's Trumpian prediction ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Tuesday
Jan312017

Trumpian fantasies

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2017

A wrap of where we are now with the Trumpian ascendency ... Already talk about presidential replacement as evidence of mental instability emerges ... The administration's "corruption premium" ... 41 prisoners left at Guantánamo, costing $10.85 million each per year ... Roger Fitch files from an anguished Washington 

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Monday
Jan302017

Fresh blood

, • DateMonday, January 30, 2017

Swearing-in of chief justice Susan Kiefel before a glittering throng ... Soapy Brandis at his self-basting best ... New AG for NSW ... End of the justice cluster ... A certain amount of blood gets spilled 

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Friday
Jan272017

Back to law school in the first week of Trump's America

DateFriday, January 27, 2017

A bad thing has happened and studying law is full of angst ... What's happening to the Constitution and the rule of law? ... Dirty old Supreme Court decisions are new again ... Constitutional malleability ... An Australian at Harvard ... Hannah Ryan's letter from Cambridge 

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Friday
Jan272017

Hitler and Trump

, • DateFriday, January 27, 2017

It's not true to say that Donald Trump is a Nazi ... But he has followed the fascist playbook in a few key respects, including the "big lie" theory of propaganda ... He has created internal and external enemies who can be blamed for America's woes ... It could, and probably will, get worse ... Theodora comments 

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Tuesday
Jan242017

Unreasonable suspicion

• DateTuesday, January 24, 2017

Public servants exercising "reasonable suspicion" ... The might of the state can, at the drop of a Z-Grade clerk's pen, reduce a human being to a "thing" ... The extraordinary case of Livinus Okwume ... Procrustes laments the strangulation of personal liberty by executive decree 

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Thursday
Jan192017

HMAS Melbourne litigation settled

• DateThursday, January 19, 2017

End to long tussle over trust money held for victims of HMAS Melbourne-Voyager disaster ... Former solicitor for injured claimants coughs-up funds for the receivers ... Agrees not to reapply for admission ... Apologies and regrets 

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