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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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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 >> 

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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Mar222023

Election fever

On The Couch with NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman and Opposition justice spokesman Michael Daley ... Duelling contentions ... Vision statements ... The happiness meter ... Last meals 

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Friday
Mar172023

Fresh hell

Importance Witness in claim for Aboriginality found to be alive .. Federal Court corrects the record ... How to get ahead - masterclass spiked ... Energiser batteries implanted in Sam Hay KC ... Another slow delivery from Jenni Hill J ... Theodora reports

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Wednesday
Mar152023

A speechless Voice

Bar brawl over The Voice ... Incandescent outcry over Walker SC's comments about The Voice ... New scheme from right of centre to cauterise The Voice ... Planet to the rescue ... Muddled thoughts from indentured hacks ... Peace, order and good government 

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Thursday
Mar092023

Your green slip is showing

Third Party in strife ... Mile long delays for medical assessments ... NSW judicial officer fires back with lengthy screed ... Improper process ... Parliamentary committee spanks judge ... Failure to recuse ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Mar082023

Unclean Bill of Health

Victoria's plan for centralised health records ... Compulsory opt-in ... No opt-out ... Human rights and privacy concerns ... Potential leakage of sensitive personal details ... Digital records of the unhealthy ... Hugh Vuillier reports from Yarraside 

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Tuesday
Mar072023

Red Sea tempest

Legal eruptions in Israel ... Spurious justification for usurping the authority of the Supreme Court ... Judicial review rendered useless ... Bibi's "home free" card ... Neutering the constitution ... New mechanism for politicised judicial appointments ... Black Robes on the barricades ... Max Shanahan reports  

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Tuesday
Feb282023

The morning after

The trickle down judiciary ... Novel legal theories the order of the day ... No precedents required ... Trump's debauchery of the courts is coming home to roost ... Forum shopping for "Trump judges" ... Gilead fermenting ... High noon for the Murdochs ... DeSantis' torture taint ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Friday
Feb242023

Delays, fees and rubbish removal

Another two year judgment delay from WA's Hill J ... Claims of clarity and recollection need reworking ... Rebooting the AAT ... Barrister champing at the bit for his (reduced) fees ... Theodora's Goings On 

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Thursday
Feb232023

Land, lots of land under starry skies above

HWL Ebsworth found to be negligent in arrangements for massive land deal in western Sydney ... Quantum of damages yet to be determined ... Loss of opportunity to develop the land ... Failure to amend joint venture agreement in accordance with plaintiffs' instructions ... Don't fence me in 

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