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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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      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 >> 

 

 

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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Sunday
Aug072022

Fees please

• DateSunday, August 7, 2022

Medical negligence case sees extraordinary pre-trial bill ... Solicitor-client costs ... Compromised settlement before trial ... Judge asks for details ... Trustee to look carefully ... Plus news from WA on judge deciding a case on grounds that had not been pleaded ... Court in the Act 

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Friday
Aug052022

Secret Seven Go Back to Work

• DateFriday, August 5, 2022

High Court's work rate ... Productivity drops in recent years ... Annual report ... Hefty expenditures on "workplace issues" ... Interesting items of expenditure ... From our High Court watcher Misty Malone 

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Monday
Aug012022

Too much information

• DateMonday, August 1, 2022

Worldly Salvatore Vasta delves into the rich crevices of the English language ... Special translation confined to an appendix ... Boggo Road drama ... Insults ... Pete, Pete pumpkin eater ... Special from the FCFC 

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Friday
Jul292022

The Sandyman Cometh

• DateFriday, July 29, 2022

Up the Street ... Bend over ... FCFC judge birched (again) by the Federal Court ... More interruptions ...Taking over the case ... Findings that were not made in submissions ... Go back start again ... Costly and inefficient process ... Judicial mentoring goes astray ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Jul292022

Desires of the flesh

• DateFriday, July 29, 2022

Remote vs in-the-flesh hearings … Split bench of Allsop, Bell, and Ferguson CJs… Less Q & A … More flexibility … Less humanity … More efficiency … Judicial hits on YouTube … Coat of arms not just a piece of artwork …Winds of conservatism blow briskly through the legal world … Margery Ai reports 

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Thursday
Jul282022

Balkan intrigues

• DateThursday, July 28, 2022

Miscarriage of justice ... Justice Robertson Wright, Julius Caesar expert, to examine the 1981 Croatian Six trial ... Third time lucky ... Prosecution failed to disclose conflicted role of chief crown witness ... From our Balkan affairs correspondent 

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