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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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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
Aug152023

NSW silk applicants for 2023

SCOOP ... Waving, not drowning ... Silk contestants at the starting line ... Full list of NSW senior counsel applicants for 2023 unveiled ... Annual beauty parade 

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Monday
Aug142023

Money for dirt

Open Justice ... WA Supreme Court ... Iron Lady's suppression application nixed ... Carving up Pilbara mining tenements ... Litigation bonanza ... Making hay for at least three months ... Reputational harm and embarrassment ... Information already in the public domain ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Monday
Aug142023

Letter from London

Fleet Street dramas ... Right to be forgotten takes on the news ... Cash for naughty pics ... Another press reptile pinged ... MailOnline hack suspended ... Options for Huw Edwards' litigation spree ... "My reputation has never been worse" ... From Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London 

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Tuesday
Aug082023

Another crash landing by Walter

Early release of Sofronoff report sets off fresh chaos ... Bad move by Walter ... Denial of fairness ... Credibility of findings shot ... Another Cossack in the wings ... More litigation rushing towards us ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Aug022023

Ashes wrap

Appeal pending ... England deems the weather produced an "unjust" result ... Moral Victory v Facts ... Selection for the court of cricketing complaints ... Various judicial notables eligible to serve ... Cricket correspondent Wallace Grout reports  

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Tuesday
Aug012023

Suzie Miller

A writer on fire ... New plays, TV series, films and a novel ... The lawyer turned playwright ... The importance of Prima Facie ... Sexual assault trials ... Violence in the prison system ... The sport of arguing ... On the Couch with Suzie Miller 

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Tuesday
Aug012023

When No means Yes

Fit and proper ... Ticking the wrong box in practising certificate applications ... It can happen to anyone ... Concealing findings of public service misconduct ... Helping consultants latch onto the public purse ... Corruption report ... NT Law Society protecting the patch ... Ariana Haghighi reports 

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Tuesday
Aug012023

The common law needs a backbone

Out, not out ... Broad strokes ... Limits of the common law when it comes to trust in government ... Robodebt shows how ... Cases reveal the futility of the law ... Weakness of the judicial branch in setting standards for the State ... Procrustes on a mission 

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Tuesday
Jul252023

AI. Oi, Oi, Oi

Artificial intelligence as a transaction monitoring tool ... Getting to grips with the money laundromats ... The algorithm is king ... Machines are better than humans at risk identification ... What could possibly go wrong? ... Ariana Haghighi on the technological edge 

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