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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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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
Sep092021

Western mail

Laying it on thick at swearing-in ceremonies ... Facts ignored in the face of too much grovel ...  Quick judge spanked for slowing down the works ... Anti-rights zealot plonked into the human rights chair ... Groper reports from Perth 

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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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