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Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>

 

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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


Justinian Featurettes

Zeitgeist 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 Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Feb022022

Facts and figments

Sorry Sandy ... Judicial friends take divergent paths ... "Plainly wrong" ... "High esteem" ... Immigration assessments made prior to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan ... Ignoring the changed circumstances in the Islamic Emirate ... Comity and "principle" ... FCFC judges at sixes and sevens ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Year in the rear

2021 down the gurgler ... Recapping some easily forgettable moments before we're entirely drowning in 2022 ... Glimpses of Justinian's restless news reports ... A year of lawyers and the law 

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Tuesday
Jan182022

Rules are Rules

A nation without a public memory ... Coalition distractions ... Discretions for au pairs and refugees ... Open and shut ... Labor's great silence ... Border Farce ... Indefinite detention ... Hiding under the skirts of a shambolic federal system ... Procrustes opines 

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Sunday
Jan162022

Stealing the presidency

Murdoch discovered America's weak point ... The roots of electoral disfigurement ... Rigging the vote long into the future ... Supreme Court's role in political corruption ... Military prosecutions for civilian crimes ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Sunday
Jan162022

Bureau de Spank's last hurrah for 2021

Three decisions involving lawyer conduct brought up the rear in the year just gone ... From Perth, Sydney and Melbourne ... Public birching ... Child porn, false allegations and failure to disclose ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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Wednesday
Dec222021

It's Christmas for sexually harassing brief

NSW Court of Appeal protects offensive barrister ... Identity kept under wraps for 20 years ... Resignations and redundancies at the bar association, the law society and the AAT ... Judge denounces boring dinner parties ... Political hacks seeking credit for judicial appointment ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Dec212021

Exquisite finery and dirty linen

The High Court in the 1930s ... Judges bickering and distrustful of each other ... Drawing on dairy notes, Gideon Haigh details the disharmony ... Was this a period of peak judicial unhappiness ... Justice in the hands of riven justices ... C.N. Brown reporting 

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Monday
Dec202021

Vasta sued for misconduct - trial adjourned

Judge on trial ... Federal Court proceedings against Salvatore Vasta ... Poor judicial conduct runs in the blood ... Ancient cases examined during trial of the FCFC judge for abuse of process ... Max Shanahan reports on the hearing 

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Friday
Dec172021

The Bigots' Bill

Religious Discrimination Bill ... The entire history of discrimination law and rights ... Context included ... Unintended and intended consequences ... Equality and liberty ... The shield and the sword ... Race and religion ... Bogging down the courts ... Conceptually incoherent legislation ... External affairs power ... Alan Zheng's significant report 

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