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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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      Retired solicitor Tom Kelly reviews "They'll Never Hold Me" ... The life and crimes of the daring fugitive Kevin John Simmonds
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      The true legacy of the rapist George Pell
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      Dozens of federal prosecutors sacked by Trump lickspittle Pam Bondi ... The January 6 attack on the Capitol never happened
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      The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy ... Rebecca Solnit
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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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Costs blowouts ... Lehrmann wants $100,000 from Corruption Concealment Commission - The Australian >> ... Brittany Higgins ordered to pay 80% of Linda Reynolds' defamation costs which are in excess of $1 million - ABC >> ... Kerry Stokes required to pay $13.5 million for Nine's legal costs in the Ben Roberts-Smith case - AFR >>

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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 >> 

 

 

Wednesday
Apr122023

Leeser's miserable Voice

• DateWednesday, April 12, 2023

Weasels of the Liberal Party ... His Master's Voice ... Leeser's Lesser Voice ... Moderates in a pickle ... Spoiled for choice ... Furphies and figments ... Polly Peck reports 

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Thursday
Apr062023

Bureau de Spank

• DateThursday, April 6, 2023

Legal delinquents across the land were denied hopes for Lenten salvation ... Variously censured, stripped, smacked and suspended (not from a cross) ... Max Shanahan with the latest professional lapses  

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Thursday
Apr062023

Our Man in Washington

• DateThursday, April 6, 2023

Lawyers, guns & money ... Trump turns his indictment into a cash cow ... More guns for Republicans ... Gun originalism ... Judicial manipulation ... Torture memos ... Review of detainee treatment ... Wisconsin Supreme Court on the move ... Roger Fitch reports 

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Friday
Mar312023

On the wilder shores of the law

• DateFriday, March 31, 2023

Hawaii the jurisdiction of choice for Australia's sovereign citizens ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with "pseudolaw" ... Fruitcake theories ... Conspiracies writ large ... Deluge of cases 

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Thursday
Mar302023

Human Rights Commission says "boo"

• DateThursday, March 30, 2023

Crisis prone Human Rights Commission puts its head above the trench ... Human Rights Act proposed for Australia ... Years of pallid rights activity during Coalition reign ... Unsuitable appointments ... Out-of-step HR commissioner junks the Voice ... Rights legislation mauled in the UK ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Mar302023

The money or the box

• DateThursday, March 30, 2023

No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ... Lawyers who hatched the plan to spring Henry Keogh from the clink fail in fees bid ... The Manock defence ... Incompetence ... Procrustes brings down the curtain on a 30-year long production 

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Wednesday
Mar292023

Australia's kakistocracy

• DateWednesday, March 29, 2023

Robodebt - a Frankenstein Monster ... Technology unchecked ... Liberal governments' traditional distain for welfare recipients ... Targeting the most vulnerable ... Legal concerns ... Failure at every level ... Duck shoving and deceit exposed by Royal Commission ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Mar242023

Voices from on High

• DateFriday, March 24, 2023

Capturing the essence of constitutional thinking ... Three former High Court judges write in favour of the Voice ... One against (three guesses) ... Overview of the principal contentions ... Justinian wields the scissors and paste pot 

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Thursday
Mar232023

Voices in his head

• DateThursday, March 23, 2023

A legislated Indigenous Voice based on the Constitution is no different to what we are used to ... No complications ... What Third House? ... Scare campaign by dingbats about tsunami of litigation ... Plus - Coco and the magic art of policing ... Fitted up by Plod ... Procrustes vents 

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