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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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    • ABC Law Report
      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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Justinian Columnists

"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'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 >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Sep202022

Justice on a war footing

• DateTuesday, September 20, 2022

The war-torn justice system in Ukraine ... Struggling to cope when courts are bombed ... Judges and staff dislocated ... Law firms shuttered ... Expansion of state powers ... War crimes ... Collaboration with occupiers ... Extraordinary circumstances ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Monday
Sep192022

Disorder and decay

• DateMonday, September 19, 2022

Trump's attempted document theft ... Missing pages from confidential files ... Trouble for former president's lawyers ... Patsy judge's flawed reasons ... State judges up for election in November ... Republicans working on the judicial stack ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Thursday
Sep152022

Flashy News

, • DateThursday, September 15, 2022

A retired judge's knotted feelings ... The fox prevails over the eagle ... Lingering discomfort ... Disclosure of sexual orientation a requirement for Pat Keane's lecture ... Constitutional mysteries unpacked on YouTube ... Theodora reports  

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Thursday
Sep152022

Bar-Bar

• DateThursday, September 15, 2022

Queensland's silk wannabes ... Rollicking dinner to venerate Her Maj ... Wigging and gowning ... Keeping the motley alive in the Solomon Islands ... Unsatisfactory conduct charge thrown out against barrister who blew the whistle on harassing judge ... Twitter tutorial for lawyers 

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Tuesday
Sep132022

Bowing to hereditary principle

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2022

Bearskins on the march ... An over-abundance of Crowns and their litigation advantages ... Prerogatives galore ... Presumed immunity from the operation of legislation ... In Ireland the Crown is capable of doing wrong ... Swearing the right sort of oath ... Procrustes vents 

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Tuesday
Sep132022

Constitutional crisis among the atolls

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2022

Throttling the judiciary in Kiribati ... Appeal decision in favour of Justice David Lambourne ... Open ended term not unconstitutional ... Judicial "coup" ... "Fraud upon the court" ... High Court judges suspended ... Role of China ... Riley Brown reports 

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Friday
Sep092022

Critics Corner

, • DateFriday, September 9, 2022

History of the Victorian bar in a nutshell ... 350 pages ... Highs and lows ... The insistence on being separate ... Great cases ... Big personalities ... Melbourne Grammar takes over from British briefs ... White bread and orthodoxy ... Hugh Vullier reviews Vic Bar 

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Wednesday
Sep072022

Khan caught behind

• DateWednesday, September 7, 2022

From cricket hero to alleged terrorist ... Imran Khan's alleged speech offences under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act ... Political opponents sidelined as terrorists ... Where the judiciary plays a political function ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep022022

Students are revolting

• DateFriday, September 2, 2022

Lawyers of tomorrow ... Malcolm Turnbull draws law student protest at his alma mater ... Campus chaos  at University of Sydney ... Students see in Turnbull what they'll be when they grow up ... The unbearable smugness of being ... Max Shanahan reports from the front line 

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