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Latest from Brucie ... Bruce Lehrmann v Commonwealth Special Minister of State & Maj Gen Paul Brereton (NACC) ... See SMH >> ... Application for relief under s.39B of the Judiciary Act ... Read more >>

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Perils of the Defamatorium ... Lovely Linda Reynolds’ “victory” leaves her underwater … Politics, sex, law, and money … Injuries galore … The art of Tottling … Where’s the serious harm? … Trust me … Jurisdictional backwater ... Read more >> 

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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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Six new judges for Div 2 of the FCFC ... 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 ... 


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


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
Oct062023

Finn's finale

Paul Finn ... Former federal judge and serious academic ... 1946-2023 ... Equitable duties and good government ... The outsider who should have gone to the High Court ... Lunching connections ... The history of crony capitalism ... From the Obituaries Editor 

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Tuesday
Oct032023

After all we've done for them

China gets its foot inside Timor Leste's front door ... The legacy of Downer, Howard, ASIS and their pals at Woodside ... Collaery, K and the whole shooting match ... Dili diary ... Procrustes inveighs 

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Monday
Oct022023

The travesty of America's judiciary

Transformation of SCOTUS ... Alito and Thomas's ethical voids ... Rorting and stacking the courts in the Red States ... Circuit mischief ... Trump judges on the loose ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Tuesday
Sep262023

The looming train wreck

The Voice referendum - an insight into the soul of the nation ... A fast track constitutional lesson ... Levelling up the race power ... More than welfare is at stake for Indigenous Australians ... Ineptitude of the Yes case ... Procrustes in despair  

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Tuesday
Sep262023

From out of the West

Across the Nullarbor ... Another judicial delay ... Appeal against failure to recuse in defamation case ... Apprehension of bias ... Insufficient disclosure of tribunal member's connection with a complainant in barrister's fees case ... Disharmony in siblings estate dispute ... Groper's latest bulletin 

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Tuesday
Sep192023

Letter from London

Fighting SLAPP and tickle with a task force ... Law firm managing partner siphoned £64 million from the clients for a property spree ...  Bed sheets assist terror accused escape from pokey ... Birth father looped into adoption details ... Throwing the book at climate protestors ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reporting from the Old Dart 

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Friday
Sep152023

Revelries and reminiscences

Late night harbourside with briefs from Level 22 ... Big birthday bash with style ... Different memories of Alan Jones' schooldays ... Walker boys in the classroom and on the oval ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep142023

Torrenside prosecutors - a dysfunctional workplace world

Report into South Australia's Office of DPP paints a grim workplace picture ... Undervalued, underpaid and unhappy ... Lack of rising talent ... Too many cases ... Stress and rudeness ... No one is listening ... Ariana Haghighi reports 

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Thursday
Sep142023

Separation of powers get Mugga Muggered

ACT attorney general says the separation of powers doesn't apply in his toy town kingdom ... Acceptable for judicial and non-judicial roles to overlap ... High Court rulings not directly applicable in the territory ... Polly Peck reports 

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