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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 >> 


 

 

Sunday
Aug072022

Fees please

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

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

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

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

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

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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Wednesday
Jul272022

A thing or two

NSW government goes softly-softly on anti-corruption ... AG from a crooked era nominated for chief commissioner ... South Australian magistrate loses conduct appeal ... Red wine snifters to raise funds for Queensland legal aid ... President of Vic Appeals hangs up his wig with a shot at mandatory sentencing ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Jul212022

Corrs blimey

Bollicking for large law shop over "independent" witness report ... Drafting assisted by lawyers ... Breach of expert witness code of conduct ... Law firm knew in advance what the findings would be ... Misleading the court ... Max Shanahan files 

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Wednesday
Jul202022

Native title - and all that baloney

State judges go sour on rights to Indigenous tucker ... Traditional laws and customs not written ... Native Title Act fails to protect customary Aboriginal hunting and fishing ... Whitey judges clueless ... Procrustes sees The Voice as the way forward on customary rights 

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