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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
Aug242021

Who wants silk?

Scoop ... NSW's 2021 list of senior counsel hopefuls ... Annual festival plays out against wreckage wrought by the plague ... Despair - Depression - And everything in-between ... Exclusive ... Data and details 

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Monday
Aug232021

Stewardship of the revenue realm

High Court's tax guru overturned by the High Court ... The final word on tax intricacies ... Interests of justice and disclosure of assets ... Running balance accounts and curly questions ... Government looking for "reliability" 

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Sunday
Aug222021

Quash denied

Complaint about a lawyer's delays, fees and cost agreements ... Bureau de Spank finds complaint not entirely outside statutory limitation ... Tas CJ throws out judicial review ... Absurd situation ... Anonymity ... No contempt ... The Map ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Friday
Aug202021

The "academy" under assault

Book worm review by Anna Kretowicz... Who Gets to be Smart ... A broken education system propping-up the old world order ... The "truth" behind Rhodes and his scholars ... Production mill for elites ... Confusion and insecurities abound 

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Monday
Aug162021

Remembering Doug Campbell

The Prothonotary v Campbell ... The upstanding Tamworth lawyer who fell from grace ... Law Society's lame efforts at purging the profession ... Plundering a deranged client's wealthy estate ... False swearing and perjury ... Attempt to cover-up moral and ethical lapse ... Greed got the better of an "unimpeachable" character 

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Friday
Aug132021

Celebrity solicitor pinged in Foster scam

Gold Coast money dreams ... Trading-Gambling scheme comes unglued ... Investors cleaned out ... Identity of conman hidden ... False and misleading conduct ... Solicitor aware of misrepresentations ... Various squirrelling activities ... Appeal fails ... Anna Kretowicz on the case 

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Thursday
Aug122021

Struggling out of the quagmire

The Roberts Supreme Court Court and its obstructions ... Gerrymanders could see the Republicans take back the House ... Members of the "sedition caucus" to testify before January 6 committee ... Big money behind the claims of election fraud ... Trouble ahead for Trump lawyers ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, reports 

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Monday
Aug092021

Winter Wonderland

Life in lockdown proving perilous for parties in Willy Alstergren's speedy callover regime for the Family and Circuit Courts ... Callovers for cases already resolved or in their final stages ... Pandemonium 

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Sunday
Aug082021

Shrill senator in meltdown over Burnside blitzkrieg

UPDATE ... WA bar president pens feisty free-speech letter to preposterous backbench noise machine ... Demands that silk be stripped of gongs ... Loose thinking ... WA bar reaches out in support of the right to express offensive views ... Groper reports 

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