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Goat stew ... Clandestine footage of slaughterhouse ... Full Feds gives copyright on constructive trust to goat butchery business ... Allegations of animal cruelty ignored ... Uncertainty for future public interest cases ... Jackboots stomps ... FCA roundsman Phillip Cake reports ... Read more >>

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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 >> 


 

 

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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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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