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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 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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Jan182017

President Trump and the criminal justice reform movement

• DateWednesday, January 18, 2017

At the end of the Obama administration the era of mass incarceration looked as though it might be over ... Now for Trump, a "lock 'em up" sort of guy ... Incarcerating more people than necessary ... Stock price rally for private prison operators ... Hope for bipartisan coalition rests at the state level ... From Hannah Ryan in the US of A 

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Monday
Jan092017

Trump's posse of plutocrats

• DateMonday, January 9, 2017

Trump's cabinet of business oligarchs ... Conflicts with the whiff of corruption ... Climate deniers and fossil fanatics firmly in control at the Department of Energy and the EPA ... State department becomes a branch of ExxonMobil ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Sunday
Jan082017

Report card on judicial performance

, • DateSunday, January 8, 2017

The rule of law is a fine thing and we should be grateful to have it when so many demagogues are on the loose ... Highs and lows of the judicial year ... Remembering Lionel Murphy, Tim Carmody and others ... Awe inspiring dirty linen ... Wig chaos in Victoria ... "Butt" squeezer Clarence Thomas at it again 

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Saturday
Jan072017

Year in review: triumphs and tribulations

• DateSaturday, January 7, 2017

Holiday reading ... 2016 in many respects was a dispiriting year ... The cruel machinery of the criminal law caught up with a few notorious suspects ... Clumsy politics from the Commonwealth attorney general ... Even worse from the NSW government ... Sir John Kerr's tax dodge ... Synchronicity at the Federal Court ... Tasmanian fermentations ... Future for Brandis? ... Death at Runaway Bay 

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Thursday
Dec222016

How to win clients and lose friends

• DateThursday, December 22, 2016

Court told of "rogue" barrister plying for trade on the Gold Coast ... Local solicitors unhappy with online marketing claims ... Former client says he was poorly advised ... Barrister looking like a law firm ... Reference to Legal Services Commission ... Andrew Bell reports 

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Wednesday
Dec212016

The natives are restless

• DateWednesday, December 21, 2016

Tuvaluans protesting against their Australian chief justice ... Demonstrations and petitions seeking the removal of Charles Sweeney QC ... Judge rules on contentious political issue ... Locals inflamed ... Inspiration for supporters of Senator Culleton ... From our man in Tuvalu 

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Monday
Dec192016

Stephen Walmsley

• DateMonday, December 19, 2016

Stephen Walmsley SC, former judge and author of The Trials of Justice Murphy is on Justinian's couch ... A vexed chapter in the High Court's history ... The man from Yass rakes through the historical ashes ... The Paul Flannery connection ... Issues with refrigeration 

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Sunday
Dec182016

Fledgling solicitor in too much hurry

• DateSunday, December 18, 2016

Lawyer makes "incomprehensible" claim of hours worked in a rush to get a full practising certificate ... Finding of professional misconduct upheld ... Solicitor swore he packed two years of supervised practice into seven months ... 17.5 hours a day ... Failed defamation case against Legal Services Commissioner ... Naaman Zhou reports 

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Saturday
Dec172016

The race towards religious intolerance

• DateSaturday, December 17, 2016

Race abuse has captured the "imaginations" of free speech enthusiasts ... Religious abuse already off the leash ... It is the model for a post-18C world ... Justin Pen reports on the no-holds-barred world of religious discrimination 

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