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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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      Greg Barns SC ... The Segal report on combatting antisemitism is Trumpian ... It should be ignored
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      Another report from Brian Leveson ... The way judge and jury trials are organised is unsustainable ... If allowed to continue criminal justice in Britain will collapse
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      A special report on lawyers' assessments on whether to build or buy AI tools
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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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      Israel's war in Gaza has undermined freedom of speech and the international rule of law
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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 >> 

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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 

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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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Nov182021

An excess of venality

• DateThursday, November 18, 2021

Guns everywhere for everyone - Supreme Court to decide ... Judiciary stuffed with Trumpists ... Bannon mired in Congressional contempt ... Insurrection of January 6 ... Ex-president consumed by litigation ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

, • DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders ... Freedom ... Sovereignty ... Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy ... Warfare among litigation crowdfunders ... Excitable foot soldiers ... Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

I once met ... Joh Bjelke-Petersen

• DateTuesday, November 16, 2021

The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975 

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Friday
Nov122021

Vital snippets

, • DateFriday, November 12, 2021

No mug for Cash ... Simon bucks High Court tradition ... Defrocked barrister goes into the consulting business ... Deselecting Black jurors ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Nov102021

Forward to the '50s

, • DateWednesday, November 10, 2021

Update ... New-Old guard sweeps back at Vic Bar's election ... Conservative candidates with the big how-to-vote brochures ... More of the same ... Elites swiping other elites ... Fury at pandemic management legislation ... Stasi in charge ... Career crippling mojitos at Tory silk's gaff  ... Shadow AG's crashes his career ... Phew 

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Tuesday
Nov092021

Cough ... Cough

• DateTuesday, November 9, 2021

Fresh letter from the Spires ... Cacophony of coughing at students' matriculation ceremony ... Viral spray covers everything in Covid ravaged landscape ... Shift work for the vice-chancellor ... Barely Legal reports 

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Friday
Nov052021

That's Life

• DateFriday, November 5, 2021

It's Double Bay, darling ... Woolworths ... Harris Farm ... Fighting for prime retail patch ... Law firm's negligence ... Maddocks in the frame for $13 million ... Record damages 

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Monday
Nov012021

Gladys and the magic love circle

• DateMonday, November 1, 2021

Spin campaign runs out of puff ... Demonstration of the compelling need for ICAC ... Cornered by the evidence ... Terror of the tapes ... Daryl's key to the front door ... Fresh interpretation of the ministerial code ... The need for secrecy ... Artemus Jones has been following the ICAC hearings 

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Monday
Nov012021

I Once Met ... Angelo Vasta

• DateMonday, November 1, 2021

Discussion on mental health during Greek law conference ... Cruising the Aegean in dress shoes ... Wig and gown for tribunal hearings ... Dull, boring presentation from the judge ... Question from the rear of the room ... Tom Kelly remembers 

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