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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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Sep122023

Larceny and fine wine

Wine thievery is all the rage ... Expensive bottles lifted from their rightful owners ... Product that is easily on-sold or fenced ... Top end drops now snugly located in Sydney's legal district, under lock n' key ... Justinian's wine reporter Gabriel Wendler is on the case 

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Tuesday
Sep052023

Two bit cwients

The Federal Court asks for help yet proves unhelpful to lawyers acting pro bono ... Need for a common policy on awarding costs in cases referred by the court ... Procrustes reports on his friend Muggins 

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Friday
Sep012023

The Stradford story

Calamity Sal ... Another birching for Australia's worst judge ... No immunity for acting outside jurisdiction ... A thorough wigging ... Paltry damages of $309,450 ... ABA looking to beefed-up protections for rotten judges ... Time for Vasta to hand in his ticket ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

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Friday
Sep012023

Curious conduct

Bookshelves Brandis lays it on thick for departing CJ ... Overly wordy judicial frolics ... NZ lawyers overworked, stressed and asking judges to be nice to them ... Latest delays ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Aug312023

Cossack's charge

Hot potato ... Early leak of ACT criminal justice report ... Cossack insists he made no errors and didn't breach the Act ... Wants the chief minister to reflect and grovel ... Weighty correspondence released ... Flaws in the glass 

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Tuesday
Aug222023

Refreshments at the Saloon

Cheers ... New appointments to the High Court announced from Canberra ... Serious buttressing of brain power ... Lads and lasses from New South Wales in the ascendency ... The correct order restored ... From High Court watcher Montague Gummov 

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Monday
Aug212023

Accused felon at large

The Washington and Atlanta indictments of Donald Trump ... A large number of lawyers as indicted gangsters ... History of unpunished Republican crimes ... First attempt to hold lawless politicians and operatives to account ... Quandaries and implications ... Possible defences ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Monday
Aug212023

English as the only language

Miscarriage due to magistrate's intransigence on accused's language ... Need for an interpreter ... Strident views from the bench ... Other meanings ... Appeal ... Role of WA courts' Reconciliation Statement ... Magistrate's "demonstrated level of Aboriginal cultural competency" ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Thursday
Aug172023

Time is such an abstract concept

More fodder from the delayed judgment mill ... Judicial torpor ... Two years and more to produce sausages ... Extended intervals between two events ... Who is keeping an eye on productivity rates? 

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