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The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >> 

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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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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
Sep302022

Down with the Magyar judges

How Viktor Orbán and Hungary's right wing populists have choked the independence of the judiciary ... Legislative "reforms" ... Step-by-step creation of an "Illiberal-Christian Democracy" ... Constitutional Court neutered ... Roadmap to autocracy ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Sep232022

Recusal report

Department of bad looks ... Defamation judge in WA refuses to step aside from a trial in which she had previously worked for the plaintiff's counsel ... Non-disclosure of prior working relationship ... Cherry picking ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep222022

News from on High

Latest Simon Steward reversal ... 6-0 finding by the High Court ... Fourth time on the outer ... What went wrong? ... Selection process not up to scratch ... Plus, the inquiry into Brother Scott's multiple ministries ... Fortunately, a retired member of the Saloon is available for the heavy lifting ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Sep212022

Round up the usual suspects

Lifting a necklace and $20 ... High risk detention swings into action ... High Court sprinkles more fairy dust on executive imprisonment ... Alarming rate of Indigenous incarceration in WA made worse ... Political populism ... Procrustes examines the "feel safe" factor 

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Tuesday
Sep202022

Justice on a war footing

The war-torn justice system in Ukraine ... Struggling to cope when courts are bombed ... Judges and staff dislocated ... Law firms shuttered ... Expansion of state powers ... War crimes ... Collaboration with occupiers ... Extraordinary circumstances ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Monday
Sep192022

Disorder and decay

Trump's attempted document theft ... Missing pages from confidential files ... Trouble for former president's lawyers ... Patsy judge's flawed reasons ... State judges up for election in November ... Republicans working on the judicial stack ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Thursday
Sep152022

Flashy News

A retired judge's knotted feelings ... The fox prevails over the eagle ... Lingering discomfort ... Disclosure of sexual orientation a requirement for Pat Keane's lecture ... Constitutional mysteries unpacked on YouTube ... Theodora reports  

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Thursday
Sep152022

Bar-Bar

Queensland's silk wannabes ... Rollicking dinner to venerate Her Maj ... Wigging and gowning ... Keeping the motley alive in the Solomon Islands ... Unsatisfactory conduct charge thrown out against barrister who blew the whistle on harassing judge ... Twitter tutorial for lawyers 

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Tuesday
Sep132022

Bowing to hereditary principle

Bearskins on the march ... An over-abundance of Crowns and their litigation advantages ... Prerogatives galore ... Presumed immunity from the operation of legislation ... In Ireland the Crown is capable of doing wrong ... Swearing the right sort of oath ... Procrustes vents 

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