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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 >>

Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Jun292023

Serious news

Shock ... McColl issues a report ... This is "serious" ... The Bromskys ... Welcome to the Law Reform Commission ... Suitable cases for the Federal Court ... Droves of Victorian SCs upgrade their baubles to KCs ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Jun272023

Darwin's glacier

Insipid movement at the Northern Territory Judicial Commission ... Complaints against the NT chief justice and the court's second most senior judge ... Allegations of conflicts ... Ducks on a small legal pond bumping into themselves ... NT correspondent Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Tuesday
Jun272023

Litigation triumphs

Former client claims that dead solicitor breached his trust ... Fidelity Fund asked to stump-up the money ... 20-year hiatus ... Plus - Silk sued over advice on solicitor's credit card debt ... Claims of conspiracy ...  Confusion ... Show cause why the LSC should not be interested ... From our Ringside Reporter 

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Monday
Jun192023

Issues for the Voice box

Meltdown in WA over new Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation ... Blackfellas might stand in the path of progress ... Incandescence abounds ... Blanche divining Bob's Voice wishes ... Indigenous fishing rights ... State Law v Native Title ... Procrustes on the case 

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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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