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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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  • Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases
    • ABC Law Report
      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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Justinian Columnists

"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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Oct212021

Willy Alstergren gets it right

• DateThursday, October 21, 2021

Final word from the Saloon ... Judge and barrister in chit-chats during trial in which both were involved ... Timeline of connections ... Drinkies, coffee and texting ... Not a good look ... Curious reasons from Full Family Court majority ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Oct192021

Nitram

, • DateTuesday, October 19, 2021

Miss Lumière is back in the cinema ... The alienated life of Martin Bryant ... A strange inheritance ...Guns and cash ... The story leading up to the Port Arthur massacre 

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Thursday
Oct142021

What's wrong with silk selection

• DateThursday, October 14, 2021

The NSW bar's senior counsel mechanism... A club with no rule of law ... Smoke and mirrors ... Failed applicants led up the garden path ... Distortions imposed by secrecy ... Sydney barrister, silk applicant and litigant against the bar association, David Smallbone, explains  

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Thursday
Oct142021

I Once Met ... Lord Denning

• DateThursday, October 14, 2021

As a law student Tom Kelly met Tom Denning ... Visiting lecture in Sydney ... Problem of the missing teeth ... No recollection of what was said ... Later realisation that the Master of the Rolls may not have been such a wonderful chap ... Confusion about the Dennings 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

The Toll of an intimidating legal threat

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Hobart law shop issued disgraceful defamation letter to young victim of sexual harassment ... Defamation bluster ... Abuse of power imbalance ... Effect on emotional wellbeing ... Aggravated damages ... Max Shanahan reporting 

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Wednesday
Oct132021

Ominous agenda of SCOTUS' supermajority

• DateWednesday, October 13, 2021

Stonewalling the January 6 investigation ... Obstruction of justice is flavour of the season ... Midterm dangers ... Huge report on attempted subversion of the DoJ ... Supreme Court docket ... "State secrets" ... Legal theory in support of election heist ... From Washington Roger Fitch reports 

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Tuesday
Oct122021

MPs clip SA ICAC in record time

• DateTuesday, October 12, 2021

The integrity wars continue ... ICACs everywhere under assault ... South Australian politicians eviscerate the state's anti-corruption body ... Strange timing ... Looking after the patch ... Attorney General investigated over possible conflicts ... Max Shanahan reporting

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Wednesday
Oct062021

Bar's health report

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

NSW bar ... Covid creates a different world for barristers ... Can it ever be the same again? ... Clinging on ... The chambers model's uncertain future ... Expenses trimmed ... Curate's egg ... Some parts thriving ... Younger briefs need helping hands ... JJJ hearings 

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Wednesday
Oct062021

I once met ... Arnold Schwarzenegger

• DateWednesday, October 6, 2021

Communications and branding guru and former ABC producer Julian Canny met Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s ... The briefest interview that ever made it to air ... Arnie at "optimum extension" ... Aunty's scratched footage 

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