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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 >> 


 

 

Monday
Jul052021

Aged care

Former Apple Isle DPP denounces plan to increase the retirement age of judges ... Slings and arrows aimed at the chief justice ... A more youthful and reformist bench is required ... Judges should be refreshed ... Graphs and charts ... Studies on age and mental deterioration ... Tim Ellis puts the case for ageism 

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Monday
Jul052021

Mixed bag from SCOTUS

Supreme Court wraps up its latest term with some notable shockers ... Another stick of gelignite to blow up the Voting Rights Act ... Secrecy for rich donors to political causes ... But freedom for profane speech ... Department of Justice going slow on prosecuting Capitol insurrectionists ... War criminal and former defence secretary dead at 88 ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Wednesday
Jun302021

NCAT sucks

The Bureau de Spank's decision not to spank a barrister over his nasty sexist piggery has caused ructions up-and-down the Street of Shame ... Attack on female barristers' clerk ... EFA, A and H ... All OK because the brief has reflected on his conduct ... Frame by frame analysis ... Name suppressed to protect offender from further harm ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Wednesday
Jun302021

When greenwashing can't hide the fossil stains

Company logo despoiled by climateers ... Upheld in the name of satire ... Clive Palmer didn't help ... Phil Ruddock's shield of satire saved the greenies ... Anna Kretowicz looks at how the Federal Court came to grips with parody 

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Friday
Jun252021

Porter's imperfections

Porter hanging-on in Cabinet amid rising stench ... Publication of painful dossier compiled by alleged victim of rape ... More unattractive character details about the former attorney general ... No inquiry into whether he is fit and proper to remain in government ... Murdoch hack wants inquiry into the ABC ... Polly Peck reports 

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Wednesday
Jun232021

Tokyo Trial

The post WW11 tribunal that tried the Japanese leadership ... Inventing crimes after the event ... Eleven judges wrestle with the complexities over three years ... Egos muddled with legal principles ... Creating law to fit extraordinary circumstances ... Miss Lumière reviews the Netflix mini-series on Japanese war crimes 

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Tuesday
Jun222021

Decree nisi

Polling underway at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Whether to decamp from the Law Council ... Facts and figures in dispute ... Secret correspondence from lofty sources ... Emails and messages getting more heated ... Contentions ... Cases for stay and go 

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Monday
Jun212021

Clive Palmer QC

Palmer in the High Court fighting for his $28 billion ... Taking the State of Western Australia to the cleaners ... Nuremberg trials ... Martin Luther King ... Rule of law ... Clive wants his iron ore ... Tears and emotion unparalleled in the court's history ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on proceedings before an awestruck bench 

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Thursday
Jun172021

Strengthening the snippets

Nixing the High Court on access to criminal intelligence ... Untested nuggets on bad character ... Impugning people on a need to know basis ... From bikie gangs to deportations ... Procrustes kisses the common law principles goodbye 

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