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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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"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >> 

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Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ... 

Justinian's Bloggers

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 ... 


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


Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 


Justinian's archive

Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Thursday
Feb092023

Complaints department

Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial ... A storm of defamation actions ... Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action ... Pipelines to the press ... Federal Court opens the suppression portal ... Threats, complaints and investigations ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb082023

Wendler goes West

Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Morpheus arises

Judge's inability to complete the work as "quickly as I would have liked" ... Latest in a string of slowcoach judgments ... Supreme Court delays ... Boilerplate explanations ... Memory remains as fresh as a daisy ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Postcard from Paris

Strikes, protests and disruption ... The revolutionary spirit persists over planned new retirement age for French workers ... Wine spilt in the 4th ... Country could run out of pension money as contributions dwindle ... Sir Withnail on the latest manifestations 

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Tuesday
Jan312023

Keane to serve

Former High Court justice Pat Keane takes up a spot on Hong Kong's final court ... British judges bail out ... Rule of law under constant assault ... Overseas judges excluded from sensitive security cases ... Political meddling with the HK legal profession ... Lawyers flee ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Jan312023

A better coup next time

Roger Fitch on the Republican screwballs and anarchists in the House ... Protecting the insurrectionists and the Trumpenvolk ... Democracy attacked by extensive litigation ... January 6 report ... Unlawful interference by lawyers 

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Friday
Jan272023

Lest we forget

Justinian's review of lawyers and the law for 2022 ... A strangely memorable yet forgettable year ... Few, if any, elephant stamps ... Frantic activity by the new attorney general ... News from the Foreign Desk ... Law 'n Order ... Misconduct ... The works, from Max Shanahan 

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Tuesday
Jan172023

The Man Without A Face

Encomiums for George Pell ... Peter Dutton's contribution stands out for its sheer idiocy ... The Cardinal's fan club ignores the facts unearthed by the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse ... Role of the jury in the modern world ... Procrustes in sorrow and anger 

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Thursday
Dec292022

ICC defence lawyers revolt

Defence counsel's shabby pay and conditions at the International Criminal Court ... Legal aid negotiations dragging on indefinitely ... Pay stuck at 2013 level ... An unbalanced system ... The bench decidedly frosty ... Silence in the court ... Max Shanahan reports 

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