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Unread emails ... Family law barrister in Adelaide neglects to attend to emails ... Reminders to renew her ticket studiously ignored ... Unravelling chaos ... Trials invalidated ... Liability of Law Society and Conduct Commissioner ... Breach of statutory requirement ... Damages ... From our Team on the Torrens ... Read more >> 

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The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >> 

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Annihilation of the now ...Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ... Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism ... Roger Fitch unloads ... Read more >> 

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Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ...  NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Most important of all, in addition, we have the World Cup and we have the Olympics. Can you imagine [if] I missed that four years? And now look what I have. I have everything - amazing the way things work out. God did that, I believe that too." 

Donald Trump in a speech at Arlington National Cemetary, noting that he will be president for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ... May 26, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

Justinian Featurettes

Zeilgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >> 

 

 

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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Sunday
Aug142022

Prima Facie

• DateSunday, August 14, 2022

Sexual assault and the law ... Rape (alleged) by a member of chambers ... Suzie Miller's play brought to the screen ... Jodie Comer is chilling - and thrilling ... Scorching indictment of the law .... Miss Lumière at the National Theatre (Live) 

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Friday
Aug122022

Sisyphean tasks

• DateFriday, August 12, 2022

Judges and their impartiality ... The long neglected territory of complaints about federal judges ... Teaching humility ... Gingering up appointments ... Data collection to pin point judicial outliers ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with the bold work of the ALRC 

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Monday
Aug082022

We'll have a barrel of fun

• DateMonday, August 8, 2022

Roll out the barrel ... What to do about pork-barrelling ... aka misuse of public money ... NSW's ICAC makes suggestions ... Report inspired by Aunty Glady's fund for securing marginal seats ... Max Shanahan reports 

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