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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 for legal costs arising from raid by the Corruption Concealment Commission - The Australian >> ... Brittany Higgins ordered to pay 80% of Linda Reynolds' defamation costs - Judgment >> ... Kerry Stokes required to pay $13.5 million for Nine's costs in the Ben Roberts-Smith disaster - 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 >> 


 

 

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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