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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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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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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 ... 


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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 >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Jun132023

It's quashing time

On the federal front line ... Liberal Party AAT appointment overlooks the fundamentals in a migration review case ... Slap from upstairs ... Street J and the line between efficiency and fairness ... Trying to achieve both in a busy court ... And - VCAT helps a barrister reveal herself ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Jun132023

Deep doo-doo

Trump indictment ... Top secret, purloined documents ... Fingered by his own people ... More indicting to be done ... Dangerous crim running for president ... Latest from the Supreme Court ... Clarence Thomas weighs in on one of Harlan Crow's cases ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Friday
Jun092023

Vasta World

Salvatore Vasta's "pumpkin eater" case overturned on appeal ... Unscrambling secret meanings ... Union fines reduced ... Plus ... A special judgment on reasons not to make a transcript available to a litigant ...Sal's latest from our Ringside Reporter 

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Friday
Jun092023

Peter Lyons

Leverhulme RIP ... UK-based correspondent for Justinian dies unexpectedly ... Wonderful writer, a creative teacher, skilled advocate, scholar and friend ... Tribute to Peter Lyons ... By Richard Ackland  

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Tuesday
Jun062023

A paralysing experience

Anonymous barrister acting for a father in custody dispute ... Also a family friend of both the parties ... Order to stop acting to protect the appearance of justice ... More sensitivity, please ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Wednesday
May312023

Judges come out to play

Muck up day ... Judges out of school ... Jokers on the tear ... Pulled into line and told to stand with their noses to the wall ... Justices Wilson and Harrison open their lunch boxes ... Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports 

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Sunday
May282023

Limbo

Cold case opened - then shut ... Young Aboriginal girl goes missing from a bleak outback town ... Police indifference and brutality ... Miss Lumière reviews Ivan Sen's masterful new film Limbo 

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Wednesday
May242023

Rebellion of the Croweaters

Protests are an expression of democracy, except for politicians and the police ... New South Australian law protects the fossil boys from "infuriating" public activity ... Protestors required not to draw attention to themselves ... Procrustes picks through judicial thoughts on the common law rights of peaceful assembly 

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Tuesday
May232023

For the record

WA Attorney General Quigley responds to criticism of his judicial appointments ... Unfair to single out female solicitor appointees ... Condemnation of anonymous insights ... Unhappiness unabated ... Delay dossier ... Online advocacy for solicitors ... A black swan moment ... Theodora reports 

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