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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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"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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Apr292022

Trump judges rule the roost

Unqualified judicial appointments prop-up Republican agenda ... Gerrymanders tip democracy off its perch ... Tame media recycles the fictions ... CJ Roberts changes sides ... Government torture back on the rack ... America the not-so-beautiful ... Roger Fitch,  Our Man in Washington, reports 

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Thursday
Apr212022

Freeing judges to be human

Sifting the digital histories of lawyers headed to the judiciary ... Social media engagement that shows a life led more fully may also act as a disqualification ... Judges being louche as youngsters is not something we're used to ... We should adapt, otherwise the selection pond gets smaller ... From Nina Dillon Britton 

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Wednesday
Apr202022

At the Vladitorium

It has been headline time for Vlad the Impaler ... Esteemed employee struck off the jam roll ... Atanaskovic Hartnell even wanted to charge the client for tracking his stolen money ... Then there was the Elizabeth Kelly case ... The bully division ... Fear of managing partner's tendency to "denigrate" and hold "grudges" ... Max Shanahan and Henry Chen report 

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Friday
Apr152022

No tickets on him

Barrister with personality issues ... Plying the trade while unticketed ... Multiple breaches ... Nose thumbed at authority of the court ... Criminal contempt ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Apr142022

Regulatory poodle

ASIC ... Corporate watchdog with muted bark ... Frydenberg's defenestration of Hayne's work ... Major lapses not investigated ... Unhelpful judicial decisions ... Shareholders and the public in peril ... Henry Chen reports 

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Wednesday
Apr132022

Free association

Former judge's associate wants compensation ... Relationship with judge ... Claims she was ashamed and humiliated after Supreme Court intervention ... Court process likely to be examined by equal opportunity authority ... Judges' discomforted by unfortunate turn of events ... From our Tasmanian Affairs desk 

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Friday
Apr082022

Is all really fair in Love and Thoms?

Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken suspicion based on citizenship status ... Migration Act ... Background, arguments and implications ...Difficult challenge for the High Court ... Codey Swadling reports 

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Thursday
Apr072022

Seeds planted

The slow growing variety ... Climate litigation ... Duty of care ... Sharma case ... Full Feds reluctant to meddle with minister's coal mine approval ... Assumption that politicians can make "wise policy" ... More climate cases in the wings ... Torres Strait case ... Call for bold politicians and brave judges ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Friday
Apr012022

Exquisite finery

UK Supremos flee Hong Kong's top appeal court ... Judicial independence in the hands of Australian retirees ... Catching Collaery ... Preposterous post-nominals ... AAT gets a top-notch Callinan ... Peace breaks out at Vic's bar ... Theodora reports 

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