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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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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
Jan312023

A better coup next time

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

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

• DateFriday, January 27, 2023

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

• DateTuesday, January 17, 2023

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

• DateThursday, December 29, 2022

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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Tuesday
Dec272022

End of the road

• DateTuesday, December 27, 2022

Slide into financial ruin ... Prison ... Tickling the trust account to stay afloat ... Multiple instances of trust irregularities ... Poker machines of no assistance ... Ill-health ... Doom ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Saturday
Dec242022

Ancient ruins

• DateSaturday, December 24, 2022

Greeks want the Brits to stop playing with their marbles ... Restitution of stolen art ... Norman Palmer ... Amendments to evidentiary procedure ... Planet Janet off-piste ... Full Feds do their worst for a five-year-old ... Procrustes lets off steam 

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Friday
Dec162022

WA Madge says, 'don't mess with me'

• DateFriday, December 16, 2022

Contentious magistrate shifted from WA Children's Court ... Constitutional imperilment ... Independence of judicial officers ... Argy-bargy with head of jurisdiction ... Government meddling ... Big drama, according to Groper 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Another Jarndyce

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

Scheduled one week trial for an ACT case against lawyers blows out to three months stretched over two years ... Delays and apprehended bias ... Distain and disregard ... Going nowhere after eight years ... Retrial ordered ... Start again ... Artemus Jones reports 

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Tuesday
Dec132022

Trump's tipping point

• DateTuesday, December 13, 2022

The stolen documents saga ... The attempted coup ... Legal problems piling up for Trump ... 70 million people in America still believe the dangerous fantasies of a disturbed mountebank ... Criminal servitude beckons ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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