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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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Sep072021

Guns and taxes

Tasmanian tax luminary goes down in land tax appeal ... Properties held in trust and super fund ... Back tax assessed ... Incorrect classification as "principal residence" ... Facts not law 

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Monday
Sep062021

Full-throttle public spanking

Court of Appeal throws out muddle-headed Law Society plea to suppress identity of "permanently" unfit solicitor ... Offending solicitor's name already online ... Open justice ... Public must not think lawyers get favourable treatment, even though they do ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Sunday
Sep052021

Google foe goes down before the stipes

Gangland lawyer done for professional misconduct ... Misleading the VLSC ... Relationship dispute ... Acting for one partner when previously acted for the other ... Delays ... Procrastination ... Reckless misstatements ... A good wet lettucing ... Janek Drevikovsky on the case 

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Saturday
Sep042021

Vintage pandemic

Spanish Flu and Covid-19 ... War and contagion ... Consequences for wine grape harvests ... European and Australian vintages in 1919-1920 compared to 2020-2021 ... Australia's bounteous 2021 wine grape crush ... Excellent fruit all around ... First world issues ... Wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler writes 

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Wednesday
Sep012021

Dispatches from Kabul

Fear and uncertainty confront the Afghani legal profession ... Lawyers, law and chaos ... Kabul lawyer says his practice has been "suspended" ... Women judges ... Destruction of legal research work at the university ... Return of a Sharia legal system ... Lawyers and judges in flight 

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Wednesday
Sep012021

Send in the clowns

Curtains up for new court ... FCFCOA is now upon us ... A camel designed by Bookshelves Brandis ... What can go wrong? ... Two Wigs Willy down to one wig ... Limited input from lawyers in development of blockbuster rules and directions ... New titles ... New registrars ... A family lawyer writes 

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Monday
Aug302021

An appetite for malice

A primer on the rise and rise of actions for malicious prosecution - particularly in NSW ... Claimants taking on the state and AVO applicants ... Cases and causes ... What is this tort actually doing? ... Disgruntlement going nowhere ... Anna Kretowicz on the case 

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Friday
Aug272021

I Once Met ... Bob Hawke

Introducing I Once Met ... Readers' recollections about their encounters with the great, the good and the not-so-good ... First in a series ... Leverhulme has a brusque introduction to Bob Hawke in 1989 

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Friday
Aug272021

Old Bufferdom

Kipling on the British retreat from Afghanistan ... Jezails and tulwars win the day ... Lessons of history ... Premature Old Buffers in Oz - Canavan and Sheldon cross swords with the Wiggles ... Doc Evatt before his time ... The Chester case ... Seeing off Frederick Jordan ... Menzies - an artistic philistine ... Procrustes files 

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