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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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Dec092022

Kompromat

Russians and their fake evidence ... Alliance Française in Siberia ... On the run from the FSB ... Svetlana to the rescue ... Suspense ... Miss Lumière at the cinema 

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Tuesday
Dec062022

Coco Pops

Over-wrought prison sentence for climate protestor ... United Nations dismayed ... Premier reading from a law n' order script ... "Way of life" under assault ... City street closed for a state government hoedown ... Protests should be "convenient" ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Dec062022

News Corp v Higgins

Perspective on a beat-up ... Politics and the police ... Sexual assault at Parliament House ... Police leak secret notes to warrior princess of the press ... Complainant attacked ... What's the agenda? ... Theodora looks back in wonder 

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Sunday
Dec042022

Draining the swamp

Alleged costs conspiracy ... Drainage dispute induces hydra-headed litigation spree ... Professional indemnity insurance in peril ... Gross sum costs orders by the Hammer ... 20 years later on its goes ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Dec022022

The captured court

Corporate influence targets top US judges ... Dark Money funding access to SCOTUS ... Ethics violations undisturbed ... Federalist Society turnstile ... Feedback loop ... Hunting expeditions ... Leaks of conservative-religious court decisions ... Clarence & Ginni - nothing to see here 

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Friday
Nov252022

Prosecution disappears under a bus

South Australia ... Alleged abuse of public office ... Investigation of public servant's junkets ... Breach of German sovereignty ... Blunders by ICAC ...Prosecution collapses, twice ... Great moments in the law ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Nov242022

AAT: appointments pending

AAT ... Three months appointments for expiring members ... AG to assess the list of those who have their hand up for another spin of the wheel ... Some strange omissions ... No explanations ... Basil Gray reports 

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Wednesday
Nov232022

The Planet shivers

Tom Toms following journalist's speech ... Galah dinner ... Conniptions from ACT lawyers ... Tears and dismay ... Lawyers must not be critiqued ... Speakers required to bolster and flatter ... Amendments affecting Lehrmann retrial ... Theodora surveys the carnage 

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Monday
Nov212022

Boyfriend trouble

Shine lawyer sent to re-education camp ... Playing the G string ... Romantic representation ... Shame and embarrassment ... Substantial Failure v Consistent Failure ... Max Shanahan reports 

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