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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 is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ... 

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 >> 

 

 

Friday
Sep022022

The state of surveillance

• DateFriday, September 2, 2022

Rolling police surveillance at Risdon Prison ... Lawyers and other visitors illegally recorded for over two months ... Case dropped against lawyer on charges of perverting the course of justice ... Trouble at The Map 

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Tuesday
Aug302022

Palletable blueberries

• DateTuesday, August 30, 2022

Fresh waywardness from Circuit Court ... Bankruptcy petition over blueberry pallet bills ... Shortcomings in reasons ... Failure to go behind the judgment debt ... Was money actually owed to the creditor? ... Back it goes for rehearing 

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Thursday
Aug252022

Murdoch v Crikey

• DateThursday, August 25, 2022

Starting gun fired ... Ticklish media baron sues independent news publisher ... "Unindicted co-conspirator" in Trump's crimes ... No-one likes to be pushed around by a billionaire bully with an overblown sense of entitlement ... News from The Defamatorium 

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Thursday
Aug252022

The judge in an unstable world

• DateThursday, August 25, 2022

Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the Taliban 

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Wednesday
Aug242022

Dreyfus' affairs

• DateWednesday, August 24, 2022

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and his agenda ... Massive reform agenda after years of neglect and paralysis ... Overtones of Lionel Murphy's busy era as AG ... National security ...Whistleblowers ... Human rights ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Aug182022

Bigots' Corner

• DateThursday, August 18, 2022

Peach Melba with the latest from Yarraside ... Crude notice crisis ... Lift poster sent to the Bureau ... Christian judge from the Saloon comes to the Athenaeun Club ... Learn how not to sexually harasses anyone and win CPD points 

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Tuesday
Aug162022

The wilder shores of contempt

• DateTuesday, August 16, 2022

Senior bar figures and solicitors in the dock for contempt ... Alleged breach of suppression order ... Shoe on the attorney general's other foot ... Skirmishes with a long history ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Aug162022

It's fixed

• DateTuesday, August 16, 2022

UPDATED ... Appointment of new ICAC commissioners in NSW ... Widely regarded Supreme Court nominee overlooked as chief commissioner in favour of an undistinguished District Court judge ... Interviewed after the decision about the successful candidate had already been made ... Appointment process riddled with oddities 

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Monday
Aug152022

Primary colours

• DateMonday, August 15, 2022

Democracy US-style ... November elections where Big Lie candidates abound ... Key states in the grip of Trump-nominated electoral officials ... Hundreds of new state laws to reshape the vote ... GOP plan for permanent minority government, with assistance from the Supreme Court ... Trouble in wait for Republicans' Pravda ... Roger Fitch's reports from our Washington bureau 

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