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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
Jul292021

Chile by night

In the basement with Pinochet's fascist government agents ... Torture and executions ... CIA concerned when the regime's murders moved to Rome and Washington ... United States pulling the strings ... Miss Lumière reviews Mary & Mike 

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Friday
Jul232021

Time and tide

Porsche driving head of equity being fitted for CJ robes ... Willy or won't he? - Alstergren favoured for Chuckles' job ... The Christian's costly litigation spree ... Biased judges survey ... Wot's going on at the NSW solicitors' society? ... Coincidental political allies appointed to IR gig ... Sharks salute sharks ... Theodora with Goings On 

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Friday
Jul232021

News from Ireland

Back to pokey for Eddie Obeid ... A fresh experience awaits Moses ... Decades of villainy ... Leading NSW crime figures slotted ... Vindication for ICAC's findings and rule of law ... Despair for The Tamil ... Obeid Snr cast as a "political prisoner" ...  Time to crank-up the Free Eddie campaign  

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Wednesday
Jul212021

Wilson's promontory

UPDATE ... Blunders by inexperienced Family Court judge ... Need for dispatch to reeducation camp ... Friends in high places ... Precedent ignored ... Edward Longshanks no help ... Lengthy judgments with irrelevant citations ... "Odd" ... George Pell referenced ... "Perplexing" ... Ginger Snatch reports 

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Friday
Jul162021

Gideon Haigh

A new book on H.V Evatt, the lawyer, judge and politician, from author and journalist Gideon Haigh ... Exploration of Evatt's dissent in the great nervous shock case Chester v Council of the Waverley Municipality ... What on earth were the other High Court judges thinking? ... Great turning points in law, politics and history ... With some fine attitudes we find Gideon Haigh on Justinian's Couch 

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Wednesday
Jul142021

The evolution of small ideas

How liberty works ... Trickle down conservative thoughts on free speech ... Schism in the ranks ... Law of Rulers Institute denied the implied freedom by a Sammy Griffith favourite ... Reevaluation of Griffith's legacy 

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Monday
Jul122021

Quicksandy

Nye neighs loudly at Circus Court judgment that did not get to grips with the evidence ...  Twigs assembled for a "forensic bird's nest" ... Blots on the judicial escutcheon ... AAT's incompetence ... Eight years later application remains unresolved ... Justice Charlesworth finds more jurisdictional error in the case of an Iranian conscientious objector  

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Thursday
Jul082021

National Treasure

Operation Yewtree comes to iView ... How the criminal law does a job on the survivors ... The family "choose" to believe him, until they don't ... Multiple women and their complaints come forward ... Shades of Bill, Rolf and Craig ... Miss Lumière gives her view  

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Tuesday
Jul062021

Suspicious minds

Last Chance Saloon lets the government off the hook on indeterminate immigration detention ... Minority judges aghast ... Non-refoulement ... The untethered "state of mind" of government officials ... The new Al-Kateb ... Sayonara habeas corpus ... Procrustes in a funk 

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