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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 >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

Thursday
Oct142021

I Once Met ... Lord Denning

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

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

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

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

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

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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Wednesday
Oct062021

Warning - Danger Ahead

NSW goes back to the future ... Cabinet shuffle looming ... Anti-corruption firebrand chafing in the nether region ... Judicial recognition of the Taliban ... New eftpos machine arrives in Hobart ... Angelo Vasta RIP ... Rule of law hysterics about ICAC ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Sep302021

Everyone's revolting

Leverhulme on bloody activists ... Motorway blockages ... Labour conference at Brighton ... Lord Brown has  Second Helpings ... Barry Humphries' book of revenge ... Soaring gas prices, petrol shortages ... Turner Art Prize goes dark and mumbly ... London Calling 

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Monday
Sep272021

Police causing death in "good faith"

NT policeman charged with murder of Indigenous man ... High Court to hear special leave and appeal together ... Core functions of police force ... Protection for civil or criminal acts committed by police ... How far does police protection run? ... "Unjustified" trial delay ... Anna Kretowicz reports 

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