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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 ... 

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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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Feb212023

UN locked out of prison

• DateTuesday, February 21, 2023

United Nations human rights brigade pulls the plug on Australian prison inspections ... NSW's law 'n' order agenda threatened by Convention Against Torture ... Obstructions ... Commonwealth-State funding dispute ... Max Shanahan reports on the latest embarrassment 

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Tuesday
Feb212023

African Moot

• DateTuesday, February 21, 2023

Law students in Africa ... Pan African mooting ... Intense competition ... Idealism versus ambition ... Friendships strained ... "African values" and human rights ... Documentary reviewed by Max Shanahan 

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Thursday
Feb162023

The Eagle has landed

• DateThursday, February 16, 2023

Fees please ... Barrister's billing sliced and diced as unfair and unreasonable ... Judge unhappy with thousands of pages of documents ... Associated costs blowout ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Feb102023

Fresh despair

, • DateFriday, February 10, 2023

Another sexually harassing judge under secret scrutiny ... Death of Robin Speed - what now for the Law of Rulers Institute? ... Averting the Republic of Gilead - the Law Reform Commission steps up ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Feb092023

Complaints department

, • DateThursday, February 9, 2023

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

• DateWednesday, February 8, 2023

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

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

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

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

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

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

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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